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London's Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?

Labeling Wednesday's brutal attack in London a "Terror Attack" will only perpetuate a climate of fear.
The GOP's Black Friends Need More Black Friends

The Republican Party knows it cannot continue to compete nationally if it remains the party of old white men.

Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is the author of the just-published Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (Metropolitan Books). He has also written The Wrecking Crew, What’s the Matter With Kansas? and several other abrasive volumes. He is the “Easy Chair” columnist forHarper’s Magazine and the founding editor of The Baffler.