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Frank Rich (born June 2, 1949 in Washington, D.C.) is a liberal columnist for The New York Times who focuses on American politics and popular culture. His column ran on the front page of the Sunday arts and leisure section from 2003 to 2005; it now appears in the expanded Sunday Week in Review section.

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The Pit Bull in the China Shop

“Going Rogue” will hardly be the first best seller embraced by millions for talismanic rather than literary ends. And I am not recommending that others follow my example and slog through its 400-plus pages, especially since its supposed revelations ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Greta Van Susteren,  U.S. Republican Party,  Tina Fey

The Missing Link From Killeen to Kabul

THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right. Their verdict was unambiguous: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born ...

From FRANK RICH, Real Clear Politics,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  US Department of Defense,  Walter Reed Hospital,  Barack Obama

OP-ED COLUMNIST; The Missing Link From Killeen to Kabul

THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right. Their verdict was unambiguous: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  US Department of Defense,  Walter Reed Hospital,  Joe Lieberman

Op-Ed Columnist: The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down

FOR all cable news’s efforts to inflate Election 2009 into a cliffhanger as riveting as Balloon Boy, ratings at MSNBC and CNN were flat Tuesday night. But not at Fox News, where the audience nearly doubled its usual prime-time average. That’s what ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Falcon Heene,  MSNBC

OP-ED COLUMNIST; The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

BARACK OBAMA'S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week's election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Glenn Beck,  Sarah Palin

The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

The governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia were once billed as the marquee events of Election Day 2009 a referendum on the Obama presidency and a possible Republican “comeback.” But preposterous as it sounds, the real action migrated to New York’s ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Glenn Beck,  Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama,  Newt Gingrich

In Defense of the ‘Balloon Boy’ Dad

FOR a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated “balloon boy” spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up the nation’s unrestrained joy upon learning that the imperiled boy had never been in any peril ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Richard Heene,  Falcon Heene,  American Idol,  United States Chamber of Commerce,  Wolf Blitzer

Goldman Can Spare You a Dime

AT the dawn of the progressive era early in the last century, muckrakers attacked the first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, for creating capitalism’s most ruthless monster. “The Octopus” was their nickname for Standard Oil, the trust that controlled ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: John D. Rockefeller,  Goldman Sachs,  Congressional Budget Office,  Harvard University,  Ron Chernow

Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco

THOSE of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Marion Barry, or William Shatner.) The real question is whether everyone deserves a second act. Perhaps ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  John McCain,  Taliban,  F. Scott Fitzgerald,  Barack Obama

Op-Ed Columnist: The Rabbit Ragu Democrats

IN the annals of American excess, there often arrives a moment when those with too much money, too much clout and too much hubris just can’t stop themselves from tempting the fates. They throw an over-the-top party in public, or parade their wealth and ...

From FRANK RICH, International Herald Tribune,  3 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Tom DeLay,  HealthSouth,  Bill Clinton

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