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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

RE: THE GENDER CARD.

Garance Franke-RutaNov 02, 2007

I've been busy elsewhere most of the day so will just outsource my first round of thoughts on this to Dan Balz, whose movement from straight political reporter to political analyst has been one of the most underheralded journalistic developments of the campaign cycle, and whose very fine piece you can read here, and Greg Sargent, who has a great summary of today's back-and-forth here.

WHY KEEP THE MOTHERHOOD PENALTY?

Garance Franke-RutaNov 02, 2007

Via Andrew Sullivan, Joe Klein praises Barack Obama for giving Iowa voters bad news about what they can expect their government to do for them:

SPEAKING OF WOMEN IN TELEVISION.

Garance Franke-RutaNov 01, 2007

A source inside the Hillary Clinton campaign says that they regularly watch ABC's The View (I hear it's one of those shows popular with the ladies). That being the case, Joy Behar must have made them very happy this afternoon.

--Garance Franke-Ruta

MORE WOMEN MODERATORS, PLEASE.

Garance Franke-RutaNov 01, 2007

I was IMing with a staffer for one of the non-Hillary Clinton campaigns who was annoyed by the way Clinton is talking about gender in the wake of Tuesday night's debate, which featured Clinton as the lone woman facing six male competitors and two male questioners, when it occurred to me that there would be a very easy way to change the dynamic so that there's not so much focus on Clinton's gender: There should be some women moderating these debates.

DEBATE WRAP-UP, II.

Garance Franke-RutaOct 31, 2007

The Democratic Party has had some issues, to put it mildy, this year when it comes to keeping control over its own voting schedule. Last night's debate in Philadelphia showed that it's having some trouble keeping control over its debates as well. It actually does a disservice to Democratic voters when a moderator like Tim Russert becomes a debate participant and makes a show of only pressing one candidate severely. Part of the point of these debates is to show how the various candidates respond to pressure, and to learn about their thoughts on various issues. If only one candidate is being pressed about differences with other candidates, it is unfair to the voters who are also trying to evaluate the rest of the pack.

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