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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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
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Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.
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President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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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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President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.
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Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.
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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.
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.