Timothy Noah

Imposing a contract via legislation that was rejected by union rank and file is a gift to railroad barons.

He doesn’t even know why he wants to put the homeland security chief on trial. Neither does McCarthy’s rival for the speakership, Representative Andy Biggs.

Life at the economy’s bottom-most rung is no fun. When you go holiday shopping, please be patient and kind.

Yes, Ticketmaster takes advantage of its monopoly. But the real problem is dynamic pricing.

The most distinctive characteristic of E.A.? The deftness with which it tiptoes past targets likely to offend billionaires.

OK, it’s not the coal mines. But you try getting by paying 60 percent of your income in rent.

There’s even a growing possibility we can avoid a recession.

The slippage is among nonwhite voters. But don’t despair: Union households, after stumbling in 2016, got back their Democratic mojo.

Please don’t go, Ron Klain!

Don’t worry too much. Like woke capital itself, it will be mostly playacting.

Because as you lose faith in democratic governance, you lose interest in whatever method brings you to power.

Voters are focused on the problem that’s getting better and tuning out problems like abortion access and Republican extremism that are getting worse.

The Paul Pelosi attack was no aberration. Only one party counts violent insurrectionists as a constituency it dare not alienate.

The most powerful dynasty in the nation’s capital isn’t the Kennedys, or the Bushes, or the Clintons. It’s the Mars family.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

Here in the United States, Republicans still fully intend to cut taxes. But they’ve largely stopped campaigning on it.

They can’t prosecute you for hiring away somebody else’s employee, but it’s a breach of contract for the employee if she violates a noncompete clause.

The Labor Department’s new rule will reverse a Trump-era edict and allow more workers to be classified as employees, not independent contractors. Pay up, Uber.

Tough talk about applying antitrust law against the oil cartel means nothing unless we follow through, and the time to do that isn’t now.

Tired: CEO pay is rising faster than share price. Wired: CEO pay is rising faster than the entire stock market.