Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah
Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author. He is currently the labor policy editor for Politico. Previously he was a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, and before that he was senior editor of The New Republic, where he wrote the "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012 Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
central coalition common con government maintained reagan
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
hoarding safer
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
stupid often-is issues
The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the benefit. It's a stupid way to do politics. Economic issues can more often be addressed concretely, and it would seem logical for people to vote their interests in this area.
class white middle
There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.
hiding call-center behinds
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.