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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Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
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To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.
The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.
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To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.
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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.
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I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
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Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
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Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.