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
constantly increases market reward system time
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
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The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland.
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If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'
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I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.
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We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.
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The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined.
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When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
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What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.
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We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.
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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 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.