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Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta - Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel.
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She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Blog Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped."

In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa.

She has lectured at the Kennedy School, the Harvard Art Museums, Williams College, Wellesley College, and Brandeis and Georgetown Universities. She also has made numerous appearances on national and regional television and radio programs.

Born in the South of France, Garance grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.
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Oregon House of Representatives Rick Rolls Itself

By Garance Franke-Ruta

Apr 7 2011, 8:36 AM ET Comment

Neotorama offers "four hypotheses to explain the awesomeness of this video: 1. A video editor carefully sifted through hours of floor speeches and spliced together the lyrics to Rick Astley's song. 2. The clerks working for the legislators are pulling a huge, well-orchestrated prank. 3. The legislators are reading letters from constituents, who are the true pranksters, into the House record upon request. 4. The legislators themselves are intentionally Rick Rolling their colleagues."

The video was posted first to YouTube on April 1, natch.

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