Torie Rose DeGhett is a journalist, blogger and Arab rap enthusiast. Her work has appeared in outlets like The Guardian’s Comment is free, AlterNet, and Guernica. She is also a contributor to The Risky Shift, and formerly worked as a staff editor for Current Intelligence magazine. She runs The Political Notebook: her daily obsession and her outlet for wonkish news commentary and pent-up political snark. It has been linked to at various points by the likes of The NYT’s At War Blog, WSJ.com, and The Atlantic.