Amid endless conflict and turmoil, there is only a fragile hope for any fix to Iraqi corruption | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Just a few miles south of Baghdad, a line of imposing concrete buildings rises out of the sandy landscape. These luxury apartment blocks are part of a new multibillion-dollar project that will eventually become a city to rival the Iraqi capital. The project, Bismayah New City, will house about half a million people in the next…