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Tom Frank: Mocking the Right's 'Free Market' Agenda Is Almost Too Easy -- A Real Problem Is That the Dems Don't Challenge It

Posted on: Jul 20, 2012, Source: The Progressive

Dems "never seem to be able to fight back, never seem to be able to figure it out," argues the famous author and critic in this interview.

Thomas Frank: How Americans Have Gotten Played -- Over and Over and Over Again

Posted on: Mar 28, 2012, Source: The Baffler

In the 12 hapless years of this millennium, we have looked on as 3 great bubbles have inflated and burst, each with consequences more dire than the last.

Why We Got Ayn Rand Instead of FDR: Thomas Frank on How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal

Posted on: Feb 1, 2012, Source: Picador Press

After a brutal recession was brought on by Wall Street greed, it looked for a moment like we'd rejected the Right's economic mythology. Then the "Tea Party" came along.

Mitt Romney and the Tea Party: A Match Made in Greedy Capitalist Heaven. So What are They Waiting For?

Posted on: Jan 8, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

Given everything the Tea Party represents, why won't they just line up behind quarter-billionaire Romney? Thomas Frank explains why Mitt is right for the Right.

Bill Moyers & Thomas Frank: How America's Demented Politics Let the GOP Off the Hook for Their Giant Mess

Posted on: Jan 18, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal

Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank on how our short attention span has allowed conservatives to escape blame for their role in the economic meltdown.

The Plot Against Liberal America

Posted on: Aug 17, 2008, Source: The New Statesman

Conservatives don't want to debate, they want to destroy their opposition.

How Washington's Right-Wing Wrecking Crew Robbed Us Blind

Posted on: Aug 5, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com

Conservatives have turned a vast government built for our protection into a device for exploiting us.

Red-State America Against Itself

Posted on: Jul 19, 2004, Source: TomDispatch.com

Kansas, once part of the great progressive heart of America, is now a conservative "red" state. How liberalism lost Kansas – and a whole lot of working-class America with it.

The Elitism Myth and Right-Wing Populism

Posted on: Mar 24, 2004, Source: TomPaine.com

Heartland America despises intellectuals with their highfalutin' ways and that's why they vote for plainspoken men like George Bush or Ronald Reagan -- each of whom, once elected, did his level best to shower the nation's corporate elite with policy gifts.