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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Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.
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One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
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On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
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It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
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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.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
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Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
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Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
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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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For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
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Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.
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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.