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Based on the Thomas Frank's best-seller, What's the Matter with Kansas? shows how Kansas transformed from an outpost of radicalism to a bastion of hard-core conservatism. Unforgettable characters and their stories shed new light on our nation's political divide.

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One of the Ten Best Documentaries of 2009

One of the Ten Best Documentaries of 2009

Roger Ebert just named his Ten Best Documentaries of the year, and “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” made the list!  Of course all of us who made the movie are thrilled and honored.  (His original review is here.)  Ebert is quick to note, though, that like a lot of his favorite docs, very few people have seen ours yet: Some of the best documentaries of 2009 hardly seemed to exist. (...)

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Thomas Frank:  "We are all Kansans now"

Thomas Frank: “We are all Kansans now”

A few weeks ago, I was reading an account of the tea party movement in the NYT which pointed out that many of the movement’s recruits had suffered in some way during the recent crash and recession. (...)

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The Coffee Party

The Coffee Party

Recently, LiberalArtsDude tipped us off to a fast-growing popular movement, The Coffee Party, which appears to be a liberal response to the Tea Party Movement. (...)

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What's the Matter with Democrats?

What’s the Matter with Democrats?

Thomas Frank has a notion of what’s wrong with the Democratic Party – why it repeatedly snatches defeat from the jaws of victory: The answer to the riddle is as plain as the caviar on a lobbyist’s spoon. (...)

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