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Jan. 8, 2021
The Trashing of the Republic The only response to the carnage in Washington is to banish Trump and his traitorous collaborators from civil society.
By Frank Rich
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Nov. 7, 2020
Frank Rich: The GOP Will Learn Nothing From a Trump Defeat There’s no reason to think that losing an election will cause America’s conservative movement to either dwindle in size or compromise its views.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 29, 2020
Frank Rich: Tuesday’s Worst-Case Scenario Biden may well win in a landslide, but there’s still plenty to keep liberal insomniacs awake.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 23, 2020
Biden Makes the Strongest Case Yet for His Presidency To anyone not grading on a curve, there was a clear winner of Thursday’s debate.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 16, 2020
America Is Tired of the Trump Show One glance at Thursday’s dueling town halls showed why the president and his party are in such deep trouble.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 8, 2020
Trump Is Flailing and Pence Did Nothing to Help The vice-president barely even tried to answer for his boss’s catastrophic COVID failure at Wednesday night’s debate.
By Frank Rich
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Sept. 30, 2020
Frank Rich: Should the First Presidential Debate Also Be the Last? The next two events are unlikely to improve on Tuesday’s travesty, but Joe Biden still has something to gain by showing up.
By Frank Rich
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Sept. 25, 2020
How Far Will Trump Go to Keep the White House? Trump won’t commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election. The real question is how his most ardent, militant supporters will respond.
By Frank Rich
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Sept. 10, 2020
Why Woodward’s Book Won’t Break Through Voters already know everything they need to about the president’s deadly callousness and indifference.
By Frank Rich
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Aug. 28, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump Thinks Racism Is His Best Chance Trailing in the polls, he used the Republican National Convention to ratchet his violence-encouraging rhetoric to an even more dangerous level.
By Frank Rich
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Aug. 21, 2020
The Week the Democrats Found Their Voice Joe Biden’s crisp, winning speech was the culmination of a strong convention for the party.
By Frank Rich
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Aug. 14, 2020
Frank Rich: Against Harris, Trump Tries to Run the Birther Playbook He made these moves after the usual misogynistic and racist insults failed to move the needle anywhere except among his own base.
By Frank Rich
the national circus
Aug. 7, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump’s Frantic Summer — Salesmanship or Mania? So, in the three-month countdown to Election Day, it’s come to this.
By Frank Rich
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June 24, 2020
Frank Rich: The Trump Campaign’s Gross Political Malpractice Last weekend’s disastrous rally revealed just how unequipped the president is to take on Joe Biden.
By Frank Rich
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June 18, 2020
Frank Rich: The Folly of Trump’s Bolton Lawsuit The president would have been wise to ignore his latest nemesis’s new book. He chose a different route.
By Frank Rich
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June 11, 2020
Frank Rich: What Trump Will Do to Win He’s down in the polls that he insists are fake. But Georgia’s chaotic election offers a blueprint for success.
By Frank Rich
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June 4, 2020
Frank Rich: America’s Eternal Battle With Itself The country’s latest existential struggle over race brings to mind 1968 — and 1868.
By Frank Rich
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May 28, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump vs. Twitter Is No Contest The president’s constant lies will overpower any attempt at fact-checking — plus, he gets to play the victim.
By Frank Rich
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May 14, 2020
Frank Rich: ‘Obamagate’ Means Trump Is Desperate The president is trying to make a beyond incoherent conspiracy relevant because he’s nervous about his flailing campaign.
By Frank Rich
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May 7, 2020
Frank Rich: MAGA vs. COVID Coronavirus is hitting Trump country hard. The president doesn’t care.
By Frank Rich
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Apr. 23, 2020
Frank Rich: The Casualties of a ‘Wartime Presidency’ Trump’s insistence on absolute fealty from medical experts continues to put the public in danger.
By Frank Rich
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Apr. 16, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump’s War on the States The president can’t tell governors when to reopen society. But he can whip his supporters into a tea party–style frenzy.
By Frank Rich
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Apr. 9, 2020
Frank Rich: John Roberts’s Wisconsin Shame The Chief Justice’s latest assault on minority voting rights does not bode well for November.
By Frank Rich
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Apr. 3, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump’s Potemkin Recovery The president doesn’t have a plan to combat the pandemic, so he keeps creating phony ones.
By Frank Rich
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Mar. 26, 2020
Frank Rich: What a Plague Reveals Cold-blooded recklessness about the coronavirus pandemic has hardly been limited to President Trump and his acolytes.
By Frank Rich
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Mar. 20, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump Lies His Way Through a Pandemic His bungling of the coronavirus crisis ranks among the worse offenses in presidential history.
By Frank Rich
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Mar. 12, 2020
Frank Rich: At Least Nero Could Spell The coronavirus may doom Trump, but his administration’s response may doom America.
By Frank Rich
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Mar. 5, 2020
Frank Rich: Barring an Act of God, Biden Will Be the Nominee After Biden sews up the nomination, anything can — and will — happen.
By Frank Rich
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Feb. 27, 2020
Frank Rich: Is Trump Ready for Coronavirus? The president is, for the first time, facing a crisis not of his own making. The early signs aren’t good.
By Frank Rich
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Feb. 21, 2020
Frank Rich: The Intelligence Community’s Bill Barr Moment President Trump’s team of national security hacks will stand idly by as Russia tries to meddle in another election.
By Frank Rich
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Feb. 4, 2020
Frank Rich: Iowa and the Rolling Democratic Calamity The Iowa debacle was a huge gift — and not the first — to Donald Trump and the Republicans.
By Frank Rich
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Jan. 23, 2020
Frank Rich: Trump’s Impeachment Puts the Senate on Trial Trump’s acquittal is a foregone conclusion, but come Election Day, Republican senators may regret their inaction and cowardice.
By Frank Rich
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Jan. 14, 2020
Frank Rich: What’s Wrong With the Democratic Primary? Everything. From debate rules that helped drive out minority candidates while welcoming Tom Steyer to the enduring focus on Iowa, the process has been a debacle.
By Frank Rich
the national circus
Nov. 21, 2019
Frank Rich: Republicans Are Excusing a Criminal Conspiracy If the GOP cared about facts this week’s impeachment testimony would be apocalyptically damaging. But nothing will keep them from defending Trump.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 25, 2019
Frank Rich: Republican Impeachment Panic Sets In Despite William Taylor’s bombshell testimony, Trump isn’t going anywhere soon — but the GOP’s distress over impeachment is clearly deepening.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 16, 2019
Frank Rich: There Are 5 Candidates Still Standing After Latest Democratic Debate Tuesday night seemed like a death knell for seven of the dozen candidacies onstage — including Joe Biden’s.
By Frank Rich
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Oct. 3, 2019
Frank Rich: Trump’s Wrecking-Ball Impeachment Defense His brand is chaos. What does that look like when our very constitutional order is at stake?
By Frank Rich
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Sept. 27, 2019
Frank Rich: The Case for a Fast, Focused Trump Impeachment Unwinding all of Trump’s wrongdoing could take years. Democrats need to keep the narrative clear, the public tuned in, and the White House on the mat.
By Frank Rich
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Sept. 6, 2019
Frank Rich: Sharpiegate and Trump’s Escalating War on Reality There’s been an uptick in lunacy since recession fears crept onto Trump’s radar — and his delusional claims will only get worse as 2020 approaches.
By Frank Rich
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Aug. 16, 2019
Frank Rich: Trump Is Panicked That His Trade War Will Start a Recession If the economy tanks, his supporters will sour on him and his already precarious election prospects will tank, too. And he knows it.
By Frank Rich
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Aug. 1, 2019
Frank Rich: The Democratic Debates Were Built to Fail After two rounds of disposable Democratic primary debates, it’s clear that we need a less annoying format and fewer candidates onstage.
By Frank Rich
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July 12, 2019
Frank Rich: Is Acosta Just the First Epstein Enabler to Fall? A bipartisan cesspool of elites allowed Jeffrey Epstein to flourish for years. Now they’re hoping to cover their tracks before we can get answers.
By Frank Rich
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June 28, 2019
Frank Rich: Kamala Harris’s Debate Performance Should Scare Trump Beyond her dismantling of Joe Biden on Thursday night, she showed off her formidable skill as a prosecutor. That’s likely to unnerve the president.
By Frank Rich
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June 21, 2019
Frank Rich: Biden, McConnell and the Shadows of Segregation Fallacious comments from the Senate Majority Leader and the Democratic frontrunner show why a reparations bill is so urgent.
By Frank Rich
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June 12, 2019
Frank Rich: Trump and Biden Are Just Grumpy Old Men The split-screen duel between the septuagenarians has been fun in its way — but also kind of pathetic.
By Frank Rich
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May 9, 2019
Frank Rich: This Constitutional Crisis Probably Won’t Be Trump’s Last His stonewalling of Congress is unprecedented, but the ultimate crisis may arrive if the Supreme Court rules against him, or he loses in 2020.
By Frank Rich
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Apr. 26, 2019
The Biggest Threat to Biden’s Candidacy Isn’t the Left, It’s Biden Himself The question isn’t just whether the former VP’s views are progressive enough, but whether he’s culturally limber enough in a fast-moving new order.
By Frank Rich
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Apr. 12, 2019
Frank Rich: In Bill Barr, Trump Has Finally Found His New Fixer The AG’s unsupported Mueller report conclusions and “spying” accusations show he’s about covering for Trump, not thwarting his lawlessness.
By Frank Rich
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Mar. 28, 2019
Frank Rich: Why the Mueller Investigation Wasn’t Watergate The fact remains that Trump is a useful idiot for the Russian cause even if he’s not a Russian agent.
By Frank Rich
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Mar. 15, 2019
Frank Rich: The Senate’s Rebuke of Trump Isn’t a GOP Rebellion If Susan Collins is the party’s profile in intellectual courage, it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
By Frank Rich
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