Timothy Noah

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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.

As you might suspect, it’s just a fancy word for oligarchy and kleptocracy.

The resurrection, decline, rise, and fall of the corporate alternative minimum tax

Or, as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would say: Tax the rich.

As Microsoft sends AI chips to the United Arab Emirates, reporters are failing to explain exactly how it was made possible.

The president’s ill-gotten crypto fortune makes you wonder which currency he favors.

Trump’s bulldozing rampage isn’t what Abundance liberals had in mind, but they should have seen it coming.

Let me know, America, when you’ve had enough.

My retrospective analysis of the Second Great Depression—before it begins.