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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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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I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.
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The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
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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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Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.
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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.