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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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Things the White House Should Also Release

By Garance Franke-Ruta

Apr 27 2011, 12:49 PM ET Comment

According to Twitter:

99 luftballons. #thingsthewhitehouseshouldalsoreleaseless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyLisa N. Morton
lnmorton

@adambonin The Kraken #thingsthewhitehouseshouldalsoreleaseless than a minute ago via Tweetbot for iPhone Favorite Retweet ReplyEd Wines
ewines

The Hounds! #thingsthewhitehouseshouldalsoreleaseless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyAdam Bonin
adambonin

@ChuckWendig Genetically-engineered dinosaurs cloned from DNA found in amber. #ThingsTheWhiteHouseShouldAlsoReleaseless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyMatt Penn
YourMattPenn

The White House should release a pack of cyborg Dobermans. #thingsthewhitehouseshouldalsoreleaseless than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyChuck Wendig
ChuckWendig

See more at the hashtag #thingsthewhitehouseshouldalsorelease

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