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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GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements.
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If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
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The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.
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Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.
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Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
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.