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
eliminate reduce violent ways
One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.
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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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President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
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Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
account mind subject taking
Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.
democrats rule
Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
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Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
maximize union
The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.
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The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
eliminated somehow
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
achieve code problem three time wanting
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.
The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.
The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.
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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.