Thomas Frank is a political analyst, historian, journalist, and a columnist for Salon. He is a former columnist for Harper’s Magazine and the Wall Street Journal and was the founder and editor of The Baffler. He is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press).