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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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Herman Cain Breaks Into Song at the National Press Club (Video)

By Garance Franke-Ruta

Oct 31 2011, 2:29 PM ET Comment

Closing out his remarks at the National Press Club today, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain sang a version of the gospel song "He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need": The man may not be likely to become president, but he is one heck of a performer -- you've got to give him that. Via Business Insider.

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