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Timothy Noah


American
1958
Journalist
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The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.


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Expressing truth is hard work.


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Tags: Work Truth Hard
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.


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Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.


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Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.


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Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.


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Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
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The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.


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Tags: Right Given Worst
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.


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There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.
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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
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Tags: Out Most May
In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.
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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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The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
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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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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
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Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
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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.
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Tags: Time Same Three
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
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The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
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Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.
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Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.
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Tags: More Than Kind
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.
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Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.
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Tags: Because Been Any
The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.
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Tags: Things Way Lot
We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.
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Tags: Money Truth Very
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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You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.
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Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
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Tags: Good Future Than
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
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There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.
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Tags: Like Than Make