Why the Clintons just can't quit Clinton Inc.

Scaling back the Clinton Foundation is a good first step. But it's not nearly enough.

It's time to cut the Foundation loose.
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After years of complaints about shady dealings with mining magnates and brutal authoritarian petro-states, the Clintons are drastically scaling back the operations of the Clinton Foundation. BuzzFeed News reports that should Hillary Clinton win the election, the foundation will no longer accept money from foreign and corporate donors, and will aggressively downsize its operations. The Clinton Global Initiative will be straight up shuttered.

This is a highly welcome development. Yet it does not fully address the problems with the foundation, nor the largely accurate perception that the Clintons are prone to influence peddling. They ought to fully close the foundation, and take further steps to remove themselves from the sway of the rich global elite.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.