American - Journalist | 1958 -
Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.
Timothy Noah
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President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.
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The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
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The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'
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We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.
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When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.
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A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.
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Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.
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If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.
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I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
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No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
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Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.
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