Timothy Noah

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It’s getting harder not to read the Federal Reserve chairman’s hesitation to lower interest rates as anything other than a comment on Trump’s incompetence.

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.

The Senate’s version will blow up the deficit just as much as the House’s—and its Medicaid cuts are deeper.

This is where climate denial meets indifference to worker safety.

More than an odious personal prejudice, it’s also his go-to—and inaccurate—metaphor for the U.S. government.

First, they came for Lelo Zeferino. Now—amid the administration’s escalations in Los Angeles—the administration is prosecuting David Huerta.

Call it “Make America Dead Again”: If it’s a peaceful anti-ICE protest, send in the Marines. If it’s a hurricane, no disaster aid for you!

They were a disaster when Harry Truman forced them on federal workers—but at least he demanded loyalty to the United States, not to the president himself.

The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.

The law is clear, and the legislature’s powers are unambiguous. But Republicans in Washington have fully knuckled under.

The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.

Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.

The Republicans’ tax cut plans are an exercise in bad faith, aimed squarely at the American people.

Conservatives used to want to replace government assistance with private giving. Now that’s out, too.

Alas, if history is any guide, they’ll love it anyway.

You know the GOP’s budget mess is getting desperate when a top economic aide says tax cuts increase revenue.

It’s a great day to be an Anglophile. But the global economy is still on the verge of a ruinous trade war.

American movies are dying, but not in the way Trump imagines.

It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.

The president is going to fire the Federal Reserve chairman—and the Supreme Court is going to let him.