Thomas Frank: ‘Donald Trump Is Moving to the White House, and Liberals Put Him There’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 9, 2016 Hillary Clinton was "exactly the wrong candidate: a technocrat who offered fine-tuning when the country wanted to take a sledgehammer to the machine," writes one of the Democratic Party's most able critics. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer and Thomas Frank on Democrats’ Shift Away From Addressing Inequality (Audio)

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 24, 2016 In this repost, Truthdig Editor in Chief Scheer interviews the author to discuss his new book, "Listen, Liberal," about how the Democrat Party abandoned the American working class. (Frank will join Scheer in Los Angeles on Oct. 30 for a public discussion about the upcoming presidential election and Frank’s book. See the jump for more information.) Transcript added. Dig deeper ( 24 Min. Read )

The Courtiers and the Tyrants

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Sep 19, 2016 We must not confuse the political elites who function as courtiers to corporate power with the tyrannical leaders who actually drive corporatism. Our real enemy, lurking behind the curtain, is usually faceless and anonymous. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

With Trump Sure to Lose, Forget About a Progressive Clinton

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2016 "What seems most plausible from the current standpoint is a landslide for Clinton, and with it the triumph of complacent neoliberal orthodoxy,” writes Thomas Frank at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Worshipping Money in Washington, D.C.

By Thomas Frank / TomDispatch Jul 1, 2016 The "must-read crib sheet for Washington’s influence class” represents the constantly unfolding tale of power for hire, told always with a discreet sympathy for the man on top. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Inequality Sweepstakes

By Thomas Frank / TomDispatch Mar 30, 2016 When you press Democrats on their lousy trade deals or their flaccid response to Wall Street misbehavior, they automatically reply that those awful Republicans wouldn’t let the really good legislation get through. So let's go to a place where Democratic rule is virtually unopposed and see if the excuse holds. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Thomas Frank: All Those Donald Trump Supporters? They’re Not Just Racist

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 12, 2016 When Republican front-runner Trump isn’t spewing insults, he's hammering a message about free trade that is intensely appealing to its victims, the Guardian writer says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Thomas Frank on the Financial Feminism of Clinton Democrats

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 23, 2016 The historian and arch journalist spent 2015 studying the modern Democratic Party, and his new book, “Listen, Liberal,” is the result An excerpt published exclusively at Harper’s Magazine finds in the career of Hillary Clinton “a performance of liberalism so realistic one could almost believe it lived”. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Thomas Frank: Sanders Rises as Americans Reject Establishment Democrats

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 17, 2016 A veteran observer of American politics, Frank recognizes that it is not just “Hillary the Capable” who Democrats are abandoning in droves for Bernie Sanders, but “the party leadership whose faction she represents as well as the direction in which our modern Democrats have been travelling for decades.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )