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
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Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
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President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
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Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
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One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
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On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
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It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
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It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
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In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
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If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.
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If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.