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Frank Rich

The New York Times

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Description:   Frank Rich is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. His weekly 1,500-word essay helped inaugurate the expanded opinion pages that the paper introduced in the Sunday Week in Review section in April 2005.

Mr. Rich started as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page in January 1994. He first began writing his longer-form essays for the Op-Ed page in 1999, and from 1999 to 2003 was also a senior writer for The New York Times Magazine, a dual title that was a first for The Times. Before writing his column, Mr. Rich served as The Times抯 chief drama critic beginning in 1980, the year he joined The Times.

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9

Must-read for everyone interested in politics

August 21, 2010

I've been following Frank Rich's political writings for
more than a decade and must say he's the best columnist
at NY Times - fearless and incisive unlike his
colleagues who seem to be paid agents of some interest
group or the other. His coverage of the Bush years was
exceptional and he's once again picking up steam
vis-a-vis the Obama Administration...

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