This article is more than 9 years old. In his new book, journalist Thomas Frank offers a passionate critique of Massachusetts Democrats and the booming economy they've helped create.

Thomas Frank on How Democrats Went From Being the ‘Party of the People’ to the Party of Rich Elites Democrats have gone from the party of the New Deal to a party that is defending mass inequality.

Author and historian Thomas Frank on the history of populism and anti-populism in America, and how Democrats can reclaim it from the GOP.

Frank claims that since Clinton’s presidency, the Democrats have been swooning over the “professional class”—an ascendant group of highly educated Americans with careers in tech, law ...

The Democrats could use a dose of that.” Frank also continues his proposal that the term “populism” is widely misused in current discourse, and that the Trump version is a misrepresentation ...

And it succeeded. The “New Democrats” won the war inside the Democratic Party, defeating the traditionalists. They were given many chances to rule. They triangulated and sought grand bargains.

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 ...