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 ...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
IT seems like a century ago now, but it was only in 2005 that a National Journal poll of Beltway insiders predicted that George Allen, then a popular ...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics
OLD Mr. Straight Talk has become so shaky a speaker that when he does talk straight, it's startling. On Wednesday night, John McCain mustered exactly ...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential cont...
NY Times | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
What we learned last week is that the man who always puts his "country first" will take the country down with him if that's what it takes to get to th...
Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics
The fact is that John McCain's health is the most underreported, underdebated, and underappreciated risk factor in a potential McCain presidency.
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 10.22.2008 | Media
You know the press is impotent at unmasking this truthiness when the hardest-hitting interrogation McCain has yet faced on television came on "The Vie...
Larry Gellman | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media
You remember journalists. They were the reporters and analysts who used to make sure that stories were true before they published or went on the air with them.
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
SARAH PALIN makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged ...
New York Times | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
It almost seems like a gag worthy of "Borat": A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American preside...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
DON'T fault Charles Black, the John McCain adviser, for publicly stating his honest belief that a domestic terrorist attack would be "a big advantage"...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
THEY thought they were being so slick. When the McCain campaign abruptly moved last Tuesday's fund-raiser with President Bush from the Phoenix Conven...
Chris Kelly | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics
Obama just needs a running mate who's old, Hispanic, southern, female and enjoys state-sponsored violence, especially war.
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media
Over the past few weeks, HBO has announced a series of moves to stem the tide of speculation that the network is faltering. After canceling 12 Miles o...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media
Frank Rich, who spent thirteen years as the theater critic at the New York Times and is now a weekly columnist there, has signed on as a creative cons...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for "John Hagee Roman Church Hitler," and be recharg...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media
"THE crowd is turning on me," said Charles Gibson, the ABC anchor, when the audience jeered him in the final moments of Wednesday night's face-off bet...
Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home
Despite the nastiness directed at him, however, Obama should be thanking Bill Clinton for one thing: his campaign nomination is unthinkable without him.
NY Times | Frank Rich | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Before they were sidetracked into a new war against The New York Times, the Rush Limbaugh posse had it right about John McCain. He is a double agent. ...
NY Times | Frank Rich | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
What if a presidential candidate held what she billed as "the largest, most interactive town hall in political history" on national television, and no...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Nominations for this year's GLAAD Media Awards were announced at Sundance this evening, and the New York Times, LA Times, Newsweek, CNN, Oprah, Tyra,...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
WE can only imagine what is going on inside John McCain's head when he contemplates Mike Huckabee. It can't be pretty. No presidential candidate in ei...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
After declaring his longing for a Howard Beale-type to "get mad as hell and not take it anymore," he singles out Lawrence O'Donnell for his McLaughlin Group rant but really, Rich is taking that mantle upon himself.
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When President Bush started making noises about World War III, he only confirmed what has been a Democratic article of faith all year: Between now and...
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics