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Thomas Frank is a Salon politics and culture columnist. His many books include “What’s The Matter With Kansas,” “Pity the Billionaire” and “One Market Under God.” He is the founding editor of The Baffler magazine.

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Deaths mount from high-speed police pursuits, despite calls to restrict them

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The worst DC has to offer: Influence is a paean to Washington greed and corruption

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Barack Obama, Bill Clinton (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Ron Frehm/Photo montage by Salon)

The Democrats own this mess too: Gerrymandering and obstructionism alone can’t explain American inequality

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Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton gives the thumbs up sign as he speaks to a gathering at the University of Toledo in 1992. (AP)

Bill Clinton’s odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the ’90s

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It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street

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Chain restaurants are killing us: Billionaire bankers, minimum-wage toilers and the nasty truth about fast-food nation

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Thomas Frank: First we kill all the diamond-class five-million milers

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Thomas Frank: The New Republic, the torture report, and the TED talks geniuses who gutted journalism

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Ann Coulter, David Brooks (AP/Peter Kramer/Nam Y. Huh/Photo montage by Salon)

Thomas Frank: Ann Coulter and David Brooks play a sneaky, unserious class card

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Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Thomas Frank: Wall Street’s long, slow tease

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Sean Hannity, Karl Rove (Fox News)

Thomas Frank: Phony spin even Fox News won’t buy

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Ronald Reagan (AP/Ira Schwarz)

Thomas Frank on Ronald Reagan’s secret tragedy: How ’70s and ’80s cynicism poisoned Democrats and America

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Karl Rove, David Koch (AP/Marion Curtis/Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Photo montage by Salon)

The GOP’s poisonous double-speak: Thomas Frank on how Republicans hijacked the midterms

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Righteous rage, impotent fury: Thomas Frank returns to Kansas to hunt the last days of Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts

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Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter (AP/Al Behrman/Wikimedia/Salon)

Thomas Frank: “We are such losers”

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Paul Krugman, Barack Obama (Reuters/Tim Shaffer/Jim Bourg/photo montage by Salon)

Thomas Frank: Paul Krugman’s sloppy, wet kiss

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EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”

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Genius grant or TED talk: Does a MacArthur grant make a genius smarter?

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College is ripping you off: Students are cash cows, and schools the predators

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Bernie Sanders (AP/Cliff Owen)

Bernie Sanders: Longterm Democratic strategy is “pathetic”

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In Brownbackistan, everything is awesome! And don’t let any liberal tell you different

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Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich (AP/Reuters/Tannen Maury/Saul Loeb/John Duricka/photo montage by Salon)

All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus

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Finally, Wall Street gets put on trial: We can still hold the 0.1 percent responsible for tanking the economy

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Jim Cramer (AP/Mark Lennihan)

The 1 percent’s long con: Jim Cramer, the Tea Party’s roots, and Wall Street’s demented, decades-long scheme

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