"Revealingly, Sarah Palin’s potential rivals for the 2012 nomination have not joined the party establishment in publicly criticizing her."

"They are afraid of crossing Palin and the 80 percent of the party that admires her. So how do they stop her? Not by feeding their cont...

A smiling John McCain crushed under Palin's high-heeled shoe.

Nice illustration by Barry Blitt (the artist who did the famous Michelle-and-Barack New Yorker cover ). The accompanying column , by Frank ...

Frank Rich thinks you should be very afraid of Sarah Palin.

Look out. She's a real right-winger: This was made clear in the most chilling passage of Palin’s acceptance speech. Aligning herself wit...

Obama "had yet to learn to be laught at" and sometimes "a deeper shade of hauteur... overspread his features."

Maureen Dowd thinks Jane Austen's description of Mr. Darcy apply well to Barack Obama: If Obama is Mr. Darcy, with “his pride, his abom...

"Even for Sarkozy the American, who loves everything in our culture... it was a wild gush over a new Washington crush."

On to the Maureen Dowd column . Yeah, I know I could be more creative about where to go for a Sunday morning's blogging, but the Frank R...

"A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners."

Barack Obama's overseas trip seems like the scenario for some Borat-style movie to Frank Rich. He never would have been treated as a pr...

Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd get around to the subject of the Clinton-Obama debate.

It must be hard to think of new things to say, when everyone's been talking about the debate for days. You could talk about what people ...

Frank Rich promotes Barack Obama.

Also in today's Times, Frank Rich promotes Obama: By telling an Iowa audience on Tuesday night that he had opposed the Iraq war “from th...

Orin Kerr devastates Frank Rich...

... with facts that Rich should be quite embarrassed not to have checked. ADDED: Rich also asserts that Thomas never turns a critical eye ...

"Searching for the male equivalent of chick lit, but ... frightened when they actually saw what it looked like."

How "fratire" found success: Many of the books in the fratire genre began online, either organically or out of necessity because m...

Why do all those members of Congress agree to go on "The Colbert Report"...

... where they are subjected to all manner of foolery? At a time when surveys show younger voters turning away from the mainstream media in ...

How political is that "gay cowboy movie"?

"Brokeback Mountain," the high-class film everyone thinks must be called the "gay cowboy movie," is doing extremely well...

Post-Katrina cynicism.

Frank Rich has the essay idea of melding imagery from "The Wizard of Oz" with Katrina and its aftermath. Both begin with a big st...

"Special Voices."

Financially desperate, the NYT has decided to put what it calls its "Special Voices" behind a wall and make you pay admission. Th...

Surprisingly risqué comedy material for Laura Bush.

Laura Bush took over for her husband doing the comedy at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight. I was surprised by how risqué it wa...

A third-rate forgery.

Somehow my effort to read the NYT this morning got stalled in the middle of Frank Rich 's explication of how Iraq is like Vietnam. It...