Subject: Thomas Frank

• The real reason behind the Star layoffs

  By JUSTIN KENDALL Finally, we know the real reason for the Kansas City Star's decline. The Star's financial woes apparently aren't due to the bad economy, much less the industry-wide loss of revenue as advertisers migrated to the Internet over the last two decades, or the changing habits of readers who get more of their news online. Instead, the Star's dying from good ol' liberal bias, according to Kansas' new "fair and factual" news site. Monday's purge of 50 Star employees was just the lat

  November 13, 2008

• Best Local Writer

  October 7, 2004

• Show and Tell

  September 1, 2005

• Good Books

  September 25, 2008

• Letters From the Week of September 11

  September 11, 2008

• It’s time to call bullshit on conservatives’ tired argument about Democrats and tax increases

  August 28, 2008

• Political View

  August 21, 2008

• Crosstown Traffic

  A Crossroads concert keeps the urban core alive and swinging, and a party at Jerry's Bait Shop lets suburbanites off the hook.

  September 8, 2005

• Rebel Yell

  Nelson Peery fought the democratic double standard.

  March 24, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of August 26, 2004

  August 26, 2004

• Class Reunion

  Thomas Frank tries to free the Free State's mind.

  June 10, 2004

• Bestselling Author Thomas Frank

  September 10, 2009

• Thomas Frank describes The Wrecking Crew at the library tonight

  As I spoke to Thomas Frank by phone on Saturday morning, a mob of conservative Tea Party activists were converging on the National Mall, ranting and raving about government oppression and hoisting placards of the President in creepy, Joker-style white face. Thomas Frank​While many were shocked at the boiling outrage that surfaced at town hall meetings this summer, Frank, a political journalist most famous for his 2004 book What's the Matter with Kansas?, saw it coming. In his latest work, T

  September 15, 2009