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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Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
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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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I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
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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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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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In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
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It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
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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.
Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.
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Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.