Timothy Noah

Conservatives don’t like it when liberals wave the bloody shirt. That’s a taboo invented by Southern defenders of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

Hey Democrats, your president is trying to redistribute money from the dead back to the living. You aren’t giving him much help.

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place—bear with me—in Los Angeles.

The best place in the world to hide one’s money isn’t Switzerland or the Caymans. It’s the United States. That may be about to change.

It’s called the Congressional Review Act, and it helps the party that has no legislative agenda and just wants to undo stuff. It has to go.

Good question. The answer is that corporate success these days looks an awful lot like failure.

Oh, sure, they pretend to hate it. But inflation is a useful weapon against Democrats, and rich people and the business lobby benefit from it.

It’s always been an illegal international cartel under U.S. law. Now would be a pretty good time to break it up.

The reconciliation bill remains the prize, and not picking a potential fight with Joe Manchin helps Democrats keep their eyes on it.

I’ve tried to be scared of these people, but really, just look at them.

The White House has allowed top aides to testify before Congress many times before.

Covid created this inflation spike. Ending Covid will curb it.

Nobody stands to gain more from vaccine mandates. Their opposition demonstrates their subservience to partisan Republicans.

The White House worried about backlash from the anti-vaxxer minority. As Virginia’s gubernatorial election shows, it should have worried about the Covid-weary majority.

When Congress delayed the standard time switch to the first Sunday in November, some voters got too cranky to go to the polls.

If Senator Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t know, please don’t tell her.

The world doesn’t need more Ideas. Just better ones.

Toni Morrison, critical race theory—the Trumpy GOP gubernatorial candidate is trying to take Virginia back to the 1950s.

One of the best ideas in Build Back Better is dead, and the higher-ed lobby deserves some blame.

Not that they had much to begin with. But it’s getting worse.