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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I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
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Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
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Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
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Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
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Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
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The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
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Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
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For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
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Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
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Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.
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When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.