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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When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'
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When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.
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Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
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Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
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The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
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A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
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Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
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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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I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
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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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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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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.