People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and… — Thomas Frank 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
Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes.… — Thomas Frank 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 Copy Share Image
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a… — 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 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
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins so many… — Thomas Frank 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 insurance altogether,… — Thomas Frank 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 with the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank 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 going to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the slaughter of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
