Thomas Frank

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This crisis has been springtime for the paranoid American right

  • 23 January 2012

The causes of the US downturn are complex. But Tea Partiers would rather you thought that it boiled down to a cheating government, Maoists, not enough freedom — and not running the country like a corner shop.

The plot against liberal America

  • 14 August 2008
  • 9 comments

In its pursuit of a free-market utopia, the US right tried to crush unions, the legal profession and all the pillars of the left. It will not stop there, warns Thomas Frank

Bush, the working class hero

  • 30 August 2004

Thomas Frank on the extraordinary story of how poor Americans were persuaded to vote for right-wing conservatives, in defiance of their own economic interests

The New Statesman Essay - Markets 'R' Us

  • 08 January 2001

Business is the new religion; in an extraordinary historical reversal, those who oppose it are arrogant elitists, frustrating the people's will

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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