Timothy Noah

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.

He’ll be more susceptible to it than last time, thanks to Truth Social, a new crypto project, and several insidious Supreme Court decisions.

If you stick with Elon Musk, you’re complicit.

No working-class majority, no presidential victory. When will Democrats understand this?

The former president weighs resurrecting Andrew Puzder for labor secretary, a scandal-ridden nominee who had to withdraw the last time he tried to join the Republican’s administration.

Maybe it would be a good thing if the former president won the popular vote for once—as long as he doesn’t win the election.

Democrats are highly responsive to voter sentiment. Republicans are not, yet they win reelection anyway.

More on the big shots—from Mark Zuckerberg to Sean O’Brien—who Trump has successfully intimidated into obeisance.

History will remember that Fraidy-Cats like Jeff Bezos and Mitt Romney went AWOL during their country’s hour of need.

It’s great that younger voters support Harris, but 2024 could be the year the gerontocracy votes itself out of office—and keeps a decrepit extremist away from the White House.

He caught hell at the time for mismanaging Covid. But now we indulge Trump’s fantasy that his presidency ended in February 2020.

If Walt Whitman helped take American poetry to new heights, the former president’s free-verse stylings have brought it back down to earth.