Timothy Noah

Did Julie Su defend herself? Mostly she let Senate Democrats do that for her.

Julie Su, whose hearing is today, is a fantastic choice for labor secretary. So why is her confirmation such an uphill climb?

Up. Old-school capitalists hate this as much as lefties do. So why is everyone powerless to change it?

It makes you hate your co-workers, and it makes your boss want to fire you.

Jay Powell? The Fed? Joe Biden? Congress? The one percent? No, no, no, no—and definitely no.

But this is not your dad’s Republican Party (unless your dad is Donald Trump).

If the Supreme Court hadn’t ruled that corporations are people, Trump would be a lot easier to prosecute.

Starbucks’s ex-CEO tells Bernie Sanders’s committee he loves his workers. Why won’t they love him back?

They call themselves the Five Families. Here’s a guide to how each family may (or may not) foul up negotiations on the debt limit.

Republicans have declared war on children, and Democrats should talk more forthrightly about it.

Before the SVB collapse, Powell was taming inflation without harming the U.S. economy. Now it’s fair to ask whether Biden should fire him.

Of course Republicans are in the banks’ pockets. But so are many Democrats. And what’s up with Barney Frank?

Conservative legal activists and jurists hate it when the government throws a lifeline to poor people and students, but not when it does the same for banks.

Critics of Biden’s proposal to tax stock buybacks aren’t engaging with what’s bad about this Wall Street practice.

Hint: It’s not because of rip-offs or abuses. Those, they’re fine with.

Large corporations have made the enforcement of labor protections for frontline, low-wage workers other people’s problem.

It’s true—our entitlement programs face bankruptcy. The Republicans’ ideas are nonsense. Here’s what the Democrats should say.

A new poll shows that economic populism trumps anti-woke ranting in the industrial heartland.

The recent fight over the speakership proved the point yet again: Today’s Republican Party is driven by egos and power rivalries, not ideas. The GOP once had ideas—lots of them. The problem was that they were unpopular and bad.

For-profit hospitals provide inferior care. But they make more money. And now, nonprofits want to hop on the gravy train.