Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank
Thomas Carr Frankis an American political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for Harper's Magazine. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the Wall Street Journal from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited The Baffler. He has written several books, most notably What's the Matter with Kansas?...
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party issues identity
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.
integrity jail source
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
risk might administration
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.
philosophical motherhood years
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
running hands had-enough
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
debt these-days interest
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.
baby pregnancy believe
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
hipster teenager eye
In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.
running bridges looks
When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.
running thinking ugly
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
promise campaigns empty
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
war contentment world
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.
leader typical campaigns
Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.
today students desperate
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.