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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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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

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

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, The New York Times,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Tom DeLay,  HealthSouth,  Bill Clinton

Obama at the Precipice

THE most intriguing, and possibly most fateful, news of last week could not be found in the health care horse-trading in Congress, or in the international zoo at the United Nations, or in the Iran slapdown in Pittsburgh. It was an item tucked into a ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  26 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  United Nations,  George Stephanopoulos

Op-Ed Columnist: Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day

IF only it were just about the color of his skin. With all due respect to Jimmy Carter, the racist component of Obama-hatred has been undeniable since the summer of 2008, when Sarah Palin rallied all-white mobs to the defense of the “real America.” ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  19 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Barack Obama,  Joe Wilson (politician),  Bill O'Reilly,  White House

Op-Ed Columnist: Obama’s Squandered Summer

THE day before he gave his latest brilliant speech, Barack Obama repeated a well-worn mantra to a television interviewer: “My job is not to be distracted by the 24-hour news cycle.” The time has come for him to expand that job description. His White ...

From FRANK RICH, The New York Times,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Al-Qaeda,  Gary Condit,  John McCain

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