DNC Dispatches: “Respect, Empower, Include”  

Community Organizing and Kandahar The Obama campaign’s ground game from 2008 has become the stuff of legend. During the final days of the race, it seemed as though the ratio of field organizers to swing state voters was roughly one-to-one. …



DNC Dispatches: Who Built It?  

Paul (not Ryan) I suppose that wearing a jacket and tie on a Sunday afternoon flight over Labor Day weekend does stand out. Paul, the flight attendant, asked me why I was dressed up. I told him that I was …



In the Flower City, Take Root  

When I tell people that I live in my hometown of Rochester, N.Y., their most common response is, “Why?” Rochester is the fifty-first largest metro region in the United States, a tad smaller than Buffalo and a tad bigger than …