Hillary Clinton

It may be early to jump to any “Hillary unbound” conclusions, and she has yet to engage in any freewheeling back and forth with reporters. But from her full-throated speech last week about ending mass incarceration to her bullish decision on Wednesday to court donors for a “super PAC,” Mrs. Clinton has shown a new willingness to take stands that turn off some voters or interest groups.

This is a meaningful development. Mrs. Clinton twisted herself into knots during her last campaign when trying to mollify Democrats over her Iraq war vote without admitting any fault. After spending 2007 and 2008 refusing to apologize for events in Iraq, she now seems increasingly capable of saying what liberals want to hear.