Timothy Noah

The truth is, we already sort of have one: It’s called the national debt.

Harris dodged the question out of fear it would bind her too tightly to Biden. But there’s no debating what the answer is.

A modest effort to enforce capital requirements on financial institutions has fallen by the wayside. We will all pay for this surrender in the next too-big-to-fail bailout.

Republicans threatening yet another government shutdown are sending a message to America: We can govern, or you can vote. Take your pick.

If you do the math on the GOP ticket’s tax plans, it doesn’t add up to anything good.

The party finally has the upper hand on taxes: The rich will pay more—unless the GOP wins the White House and both houses of Congress.

Even if the movement isn’t rebounding quite yet, green shoots are abounding—and presidential candidates ignore it at their peril.

August is America’s dumbest month, but it has a life lesson for us all: Our overly meritocratic society should serve people as they are, and not as it wishes them to be.

As vice president, she helped devise an ambitious blueprint to advance unions. Now she just needs to make it a bigger part of her campaign.

Why Harris and Walz should talk up an imperiled FTC regulation

Kamala Harris should talk about them in every speech.

He’s so terrified the Fed will lower interest rates that he’s ignoring an economic slowdown.

Trump’s tax holiday for tips is bad; his tax holiday for Social Security benefits is worse.

In his new book he rails against the regulatory state and explains why judges should have its power instead.

He’ll help Kamala Harris make up for lost time courting the working class.

Kamala Harris’s campaign has stumbled onto something with its Trump dismissal.

Millions of jobs? Rising wages? Those are great, but the unsung economic achievement has come in making health care much more affordable. The victories, starting with insulin prices, are remarkable.

He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.

His labor record is terrible, and Democrats can’t spare him in the Senate anyway.

Many (including me), long doubted Biden—who turned out to be a transformative president.