Timothy Noah

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The more thuggish the Treasury secretary gets, the more reason to fear the economy will tank.

A reluctance to relive the 1990s overwhelms justice, common sense, and good faith.

In a sad and seedy music-hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

The Massachusetts senator is right that her party is too beholden to the donor class. How on earth could anyone dispute that? And yet …

What’s a Fed chair got to do to get people interested in the criminalization of monetary policy?

As Trump floods the zone with mendacity, more and more people are tuning out the news to avoid him. We need a fresh approach.

The United States used to believe foreign wars should promote democracy. Not anymore.

If you remember the second Iraq War, you know how this story ends.

California’s flirting with a billionaire tax. The politics may be good—but it’s bad policy.

Scammers steal billions of dollars in food stamps from needy people every year. Why isn’t Congress doing anything to stop them?

Conservatives used to think you could be a political hatchet artist or you could serve the Lord. Now they say: Why choose?

Conservatives once promoted cost-benefit analysis to check the administrative state—until it got better at measuring the huge benefits of regulation.

The late public intellectual was the very model of a serial conformist.

Who knew so many Republicans would support union rights—in defiance of Trump, no less?

Why does he care? He doesn’t even read!

Precious murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others are even more endangered than we knew.

It’s no wonder Trump wants one of his own.

Wholesale prices for turkey are up, not down, from last year. But that doesn’t mean your particular turkey is more expensive.

A now-abolished agency that never was did a remarkable amount of damage—including, surprisingly, to the budget deficit.

No. But also, yes.