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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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Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency”

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Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Rand Paul (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Yuri Gripas/AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Photo montage by Salon)

How to wreck the GOP in 3 easy steps!

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Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

Jon Stewart is not enough: The curse of centrism, and why the Tea Party keeps rolling “Daily Show” Democrats

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Ayn Rand’s libertarian “Groundhog Day”: Billionaire greed, deregulation and the myth that markets aren’t free enough

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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Joshua Lott)

Obama really let these clowns win? How right-wing obstruction always trumps sober centrism

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Right-wing obstruction could have been fought: An ineffective and gutless presidency’s legacy is failure

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The animatronic presidency: How presidential museums become propaganda palaces, whitewashing Bush’s disasters and Clinton’s failings

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Jim Cramer, Dinesh D'Souza, Thomas Friedman (AP/Edouard H.R. Gluck/Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

The god that sucked: How the Tea Party right just makes the 1 percent richer

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Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 percent’s sick triumph over us all

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Hillary Clinton forgets the ’90s: Our latest gilded age and our latest phony populists

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Paul Ryan, right, hugs Eric Cantor during a campaign rally, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP/Steve Helber)

Off with their heads! Eric Cantor, the Tea Party guillotine, and the certainty of conservative sell-out

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Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media

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David Graeber (AP/Michelle Mcloughlin)

David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded”

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The trigger warning we need: “College is a scam meant to perpetuate the 1 percent”

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Congratulations, class of 2014: You’re totally screwed

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Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman (Reuters/Charles Platiau/Anton Golubev)

The problem with Thomas Piketty: “Capital” destroys right-wing lies, but there’s one solution it forgets

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Our sad “Mad Men” revolution: How consumerism co-opted rebellion

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Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in 1992. (AP/Ric Feld)

Tom Frank: Bill Clinton was so not down with Thomas Piketty

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Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie

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Straight into the Fox News buzzsaw: Why elite, billionaire liberalism always backfires

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Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess

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Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand”

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Plutocracy without end: Why the 1 percent always defeats the middle class

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The Hope Diet: Would the Tea Party fall for this?

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