Muqtada al Sadr and the Difference Between Democracy Promotion and Dignity Promotion

For a while, there was quiet. Not total quiet mind you, not the silence of a tomb, but the relative quiet one hears; the soft ringing in the ears after a cacophony of roadside blasts. This is what Iraq had achieved as of late. The violence had dimmed down to a dull thrum and in the absence of relentless...

Chauvinism And The Democratic Primary

The Telegraph is reporting that Hillary Clinton is attempting to portray calls for her to step down from the Democratic nomination race as an act of mass chauvinism. Now, typically, I take what the Telegraph has to say about anything with a grain of salt, but while this piece may or may not be true in...

New Additions Closed For now

Well, I didn’t expect that to happen so quickly.  Since I made the call last night for people to come join our team we’ve had several offers, and so we’re going to take our “Help Wanted” sign down for now. I’ll announce who will be joining our team in the near future once...

Floodgates

In the beginning there was inevitability. This was the guiding narrative that was to push Hillary Clinton into the White House, and assisting that narrative would be the apparent clinch that Clinton had on the superdelegate vote. Long before the first primary, many in the punditocracy had suspected that...

Clinton’s Chinese Finger Trap

I think it very interesting that the day after I mentioned that the Gallup Daily Tracker might be tracking something big on the rise, a new Gallup Daily Tracker points to the biggest lead of either candidate since early February. Back then it was Clinton with the double digit lead over Obama, but now the...