Frank Rich
United States
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Frank Hart Rich Jr. is an American essayist and liberal op-ed columnist, who held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. He has also produced television series and documentaries for HBO.
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Oct 7, 2026
Far Left
His analysis of corporate titans backing Trump's second term was cited in an AlterNet piece about the reckoning ahead.
Rich's critique of the transactional elite is useful, but the left notes he remains a liberal insider who fails to indict the Democratic Party's own corporate ties.
Oct 7, 2026
Far Left
Frank Rich's analysis is cited in a story about corporate, financial, and legal titans abandoning institutional independence to back Trump's second term.
The left generally agrees with Rich's diagnosis of elite collusion but finds his brand of centrist commentary insufficiently radical, preferring structural analysis of capitalism over liberal lamentations about norms.