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Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Recent Articles

Safety Numbers

Garance Franke-RutaMar 24, 2004

On March 18, President Bush declared that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have made "America more secure."

As the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States undertakes
two days of public hearings before Congress, it's worth taking a look at that statement critically. In particular, an examination of terrorist incidents over the past few years reveals that there have been more al-Qaeda-linked attacks internationally since September 11 than in the eight years before it.

Kerry's Women

Garance Franke-RutaMar 23, 2004

When the old boy's club kicked into gear in east Los Angeles in 1998, Mary Beth Cahill, then executive director of Emily's List, took action. Nine-term Representative Esteban Edward Torres announced he was retiring from his seat in a safe Democratic district just two days before the filing deadline for candidates. The heir apparent to his spot was none other than his chief of staff, Jamie Casso, who also happened to be married to his daughter. By retiring so late, Torres was making it hard for any other challenger to jump into the fray.

Exit Interview

Garance Franke-RutaMar 04, 2004

Soon after coming to Burlington, Vt., from Moab, Utah, and depositing himself at former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's headquarters, Mathew Gross was commissioned by Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi to set up a blog for the campaign. The rest is history.

Today, every campaign for the presidency has a blog. There's an O-Blog (official) and several U-Blogs (unoffical) for President Bush. And the blogosphere routinely keeps stories alive until mainstream dailies choose to report on them.

Win Some

Garance Franke-RutaMar 03, 2004

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, election day, a staffer from Sen. John Edwards' campaign rushed into the back office of their headquarters on Gervais Street. Exit polls were showing Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Edwards running neck and neck in Oklahoma, each with 30 percent of the vote. Should they tell the people calling potential voters in South Carolina to start trying people in Oklahoma?

Enemy Lines

Garance Franke-RutaMar 03, 2004

President George W. Bush's decision to back a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages is one of those decisions that may soon be filed under "seemed like a good idea at the time." And, like his decision last May to land on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit and give a speech in front of a big banner reading "Mission Accomplished," his decision to launch a culture war against gays could easily turn into a millstone around his neck by the end of summer.

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