Thomas Frank

Pity the Billionaire? But He's Winning

Francine Hardaway | Posted 03.12.2012

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Francine Hardaway

Unlike in other countries, our protestors don't continue; they don't even register at the ballot box. They make some noise, get the pundits excited, and retreat.

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The Top Ten Good Men Politicians

Tom Matlack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Matlack

At the Good Men Project Magazine, we want to believe that there are a few good men in politics. We need to believe it. So we spent the last few months looking for them.

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Jason Linkins

Thomas Frank's Parting Shot At Pundit Class: 'Nobody Has Changed The Water In The Fish Tank'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Frank, of What's The Matter With Kansas? fame, likens himself to Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater and puts just about every political institution on blast over his loudspeaker in his last column.

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Thomas Frank Leaves WSJ For Harper's

Posted 05.25.2011

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Columnist Thomas Frank is leaving the Wall Street Journal for Harper's Magazine. Frank, who has written for the Wall Street Journal since 2008, will ...

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What's the Matter With Democrats?

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

Fear-mongering has prompted left-leaning pundits to bless the health care bill, giving Democratic activists mindless reasons that everyone should shut up and fall in line ("Krugman supports it!").

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Forget Kansas. What's the Matter With Arizona?

Marjorie Valbrun | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marjorie Valbrun

As events have unfolded in Arizona, transforming its image from boring border state to ground zero in the increasingly volatile debate over illegal im...

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Jason Linkins

Thomas Frank: Tea Party Movement Reflects Previous Observations On The 'Gravity Of Discontent'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wall Street Journal columnist and author Thomas Frank ('What's the Matter With Kansas', 'The Wrecking Crew') sends along an observation today about th...

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Gay Marriage and the Governor's Race

Shawn Healy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shawn Healy

Brady, no stranger to the semantics of Springfield, obviously eyes an amendment banning gay marriage as a means of galvanizing conservative support for his candidacy.

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Thomas Frank: GOP Treating Health Insurers Like 'Panda Bears' That 'Need Our Nurturing'

wsj.com | THOMAS FRANK | Posted 05.25.2011

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In June 2008, I used this space to call on then-Sen. Barack Obama to add economist James K. Galbraith's book, "The Predator State," to his reading lis...

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Thomas Frank: Newsrooms Don't Need More Conservatives

Wall Street Journal | THOMAS FRANK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Would the solution currently on the table--hiring more Republicans and fewer Democrats--have helped the press behave differently in either situation? ...

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Why is Obama Championing Bush's Financial Wrecking Crew?

William K. Black | Posted 05.25.2011

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William K. Black

Obama promoted the architects of the financial disaster and demands that we hail them as heroes because they, and Wall Street, only wrecked the economy -- they haven't (yet) utterly destroyed it.

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Jason Linkins

WSJ's Thomas Frank Assails WaPo's Coverage Of Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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In today's Wall Street Journal, columnist Thomas Frank calls out the Washington Post at length for its fawning, frolicsome coverage of the way lobbyists infect every single corner of Capitol Hill like a lycanthropic plague.

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Heckuva Job, Brownie

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

Mike Brown is still a self-described conservative. But at least he was able to be honest and have an intellectually forthright discussion with me -- something refreshing in today's political era.

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Jason Linkins

Thomas Frank On WaPo Salons: 'A Moment Of Rare, Piquant Hypocrisy'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over at the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank has weighed in on the way the Washington Post attempted to launch a massive "Hey, Lobbyists, Let's All G...

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Which Side Are You on Specter?

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stewart Acuff

Labor is re-energized by Specter's decision. Grassroots union activity -- already at a fever pitch -- is escalating even more.

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Sam Stein

EFCA Backers Step Up Efforts, Begin Calling Out Democrats, Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether out of despair, frustration, or the political calculus that more sheer aggression is needed, labor officials and progressives are taking a far...

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It's Time to Give Voters the Liberalism They Want

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Frank

It is possible, I suppose, that the pundits are right and the public didn't really mean it when it elected a liberal Democrat president and gave Democrats even larger majorities in both houses of Congress.

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The Morning After

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jan Herman

It is the Journal, in a column this morning by Thomas Frank, an addition to the Journal's opinion pages to balance all the resident right-wingers, that puts Obama's victory in proper perspective.

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Rudy Giuliani in Lipstick

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barry Yourgrau

Palin's tone was so negative, divisive, bullying and demeaning, it befits an ugly high school student council election. Reese Witherspoon crossed with Bob Dole?

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John McCain as a Hood Ornament

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bella DePaulo

The New York Times has William Kristol on its opinion page, and the Wall Street Journal now has Thomas Frank. What Kristol writes could be called scho...

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McCain the McMaverick, a 'Hood Ornament'

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jan Herman

I've been calling him the Gasbag, but Thomas Frank has come up with another description for him -- the best I've read anywhere: John McCain is "a hood ornament on a hit-and-run machine."

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WSJ Redesign: More Politics, More Opinion, More Liberals

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stealth attack! While we've been on high alert for changes to The Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section, Rupert Murdoch has gone and revamped sect...

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Sam Stein

Thomas Frank On Obama: Not That Controversial

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Frank, the author who redefined the perception of the red state/blue state divide in America, says he doesn't find Sen. Barack Obama's comments...

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