Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate… — Thomas Frank Borrowing Copy Share Image
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling. — Thomas Frank Baby Copy Share Image
“Saying, “I don’t feel like it,” does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to limit your choices going forward.” — Thomas Frank Choices Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war… — Thomas Frank Conservatism Copy Share Image
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank Journalism Copy Share Image
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,… — Thomas Frank Bankers Copy Share Image
There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from… — Thomas Frank Approach Copy Share Image
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that… — Thomas Frank Alone Copy Share Image
Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a… — Thomas Frank Cities Copy Share Image
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged… — Thomas Frank Administration Copy Share Image
“Professional-class liberals aren't really alarmed by oversized rewards for society's winners; on the contrary, this seems natural to them -- because they… — Thomas Frank Liberalism Copy Share Image
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and… — Thomas Frank Accident Copy Share Image
“In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state’s dominant political… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private… — Thomas Frank Balance Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, it is not clear that cheering for innovation in the bombastic way we see in the blue states… — Thomas Frank Fifteen years Copy Share Image
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo… — Thomas Frank Care Copy Share Image
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for… — Thomas Frank Bankers Copy Share Image
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it… — Thomas Frank Battle Copy Share Image
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to… — Thomas Frank Abraham Copy Share Image
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny… — Thomas Frank Company Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has… — Thomas Frank Armageddon Copy Share Image
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“...the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook… — Thomas Frank Conservatives Copy Share Image
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part… — Thomas Frank Administration Copy Share Image
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
