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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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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When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.
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Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
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The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.
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If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.
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Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
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The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
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Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
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Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
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In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.