Frank Rich Obama Column

Frank Rich: Obama's Make-Or-Break Summer

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics


THAT First 100 Days hoopla seems like a century ago. The countless report cards it engendered are already obsolete. The real story begins now. With Ir...

Frank Rich: Obama's Catch-22

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics


BARACK OBAMA must savor the moment while he can. It may never get better than this. As he stood before Congress on Tuesday night, the new president w...

Frank Rich: Obama Wins Again

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics


AM I crazy, or wasn't the Obama presidency pronounced dead just days ago? Obama had "all but lost control of the agenda in Washington," declared Newsw...

Frank Rich On Obama's Inauguration Speech: No Time For Poetry

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics


PRESIDENT Obama did not offer his patented poetry in his Inaugural Address. He did not add to his cache of quotations in Bartlett's. He did not recrea...

Frank Rich: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics


AND so: just how far have we come? As a rough gauge last week, I watched a movie I hadn't seen since it came out when I was a teenager in 1967. Back ...