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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President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.
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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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When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
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The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.
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President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
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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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For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
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Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.
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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
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Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.