Timothy Noah

The miraculously resurrected president promised in his inaugural speech to resurrect a country that was doing quite well without him at the helm.

Abolish them, and corporations might even say thank you.

SEIU merged back with the AFL-CIO, and the Biden administration averted the threat of a second dockworker strike.

It’s a much sweeter deal. More social mobility, more representative government, plus everybody gets health care.

The oligarchs’ bet that the president-elect would retreat on promises that might mess with their wealth is paying off.

The privatized version of Medicare doesn’t just provide worse care than traditional Medicare—it also rips off American taxpayers with fraudulent claims. And Trump wants to double down on it.

Did anything good actually happen this year?

Elon Musk emerged victorious in Trumpworld’s first fight over foreign-born tech workers. But underneath Laura Loomer’s hateful rhetoric lies a legitimate concern.

That’s the lesson of 2024, and John Adams thought about it a lot.

Don’t worry, the president-elect’s plans to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal aren’t serious. But they sure are weird.

Your stock portfolio may grow. But say goodbye to next year’s raise—and maybe even your job.

He’s the richest person in human history, yet he’s trying to deny meager raises for lawmakers and doesn’t care if federal workers go unpaid over the holidays.

Billy Long, an anti-tax huckster who doesn’t think the IRS should exist, makes his living promising to cut your tax bill 40 percent.

Incredibly, it’s still legal to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage. The Labor Department just moved to end the practice—daring Trump to undo it.

Trump’s pick to run the FBI has already made it known who he plans to persecute if he gets confirmed.

Yes, he’s authoritarian. But the specific danger he poses is the chaos caused by his lack of discipline, not a triumph of the will.

Fault Joe and Mika for fawning over Trump in 2016, but last week’s private meeting was just them doing their jobs.

He wants someone who’ll sell Wall Street on across-the-board tariffs. That person doesn’t exist.

With the president-elect choosing his rogues’ gallery of future appointees, the political press is really wearing out its go-to synonym for crazy.

Trump won reelection, but a jury in a criminal trial is democracy too.