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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Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
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Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
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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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The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.
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The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
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The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
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The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
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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.
The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.
The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.
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The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
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Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
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Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.
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President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.