Somehow, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has managed to pass herself off as a serious policy wonk. We could examine media failures that allowed this farce to carry on for so long, but more important than the bias that tolerates her grift is the cruelty behind it.

Warren’s racket, as Washington Examiner Executive Editor Philip Klein lays out in our magazine feature this week, is to identify a serious problem, such as the high cost of healthcare, the crippling load of household debt, or climate change, and then offer an easy cure.