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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You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.
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The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
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With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
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What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.
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We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.
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Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
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Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
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Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
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Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts.
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What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.
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There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
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The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
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In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.