Timothy Noah

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Staff writer at the New Republic (third tour), former Politico, former Slate, former Wall Street Journal, former Newsweek, former Washington Monthly, former US News and World Report, plus some other places. (I get around.)

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My latest: Ban the AR-15. Even Trump may now agree. newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Ban the AR-15 Riflenewrepublic.com Trump thought about it. Biden should do it.

Donald Trump's campaign last week more or less wrote the 2024 Republican platform. It's a seriously alarming document. Read my two-parter about it here (link to part two at bottom): newrepublic.com/article/1836...

The GOP Platform Perfectly Reflects the Lunacy of Trump’s Partynewrepublic.com I read it so you don’t have to: It’s an unconditional surrender to the cult of Trump, and its plan to reduce inflation is laughable.

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A thread on Project 2025 and work law... 1. Project 2025 calls for religious employers to be allowed to discriminate on any basis, including sex or race.

I read the GOP platform do you don’t have to, Part Deux. newrepublic.com/article/1837...

I read the GOP platform so you don’t have to. newrepublic.com/article/1836...

It’s Hard to Decide What Part of the GOP Platform Is Worstnewrepublic.com From immigration to censorship to health care and beyond, Trump’s Republican platform is a laundry list of reasons to vote Democratic.

I read the GOP platform so you don’t have to. newrepublic.com/article/1836...

The lobby industry is every bit as evil but perhaps not as formidable as you've been led to believe. My latest, a review of "The Wolves of K Street," in The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...

Review | The lobbying industry is lurid, corrupt — and surprisingly smallwww.washingtonpost.com In ‘The Wolves of K Street,’ Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins introduce readers to a rogue’s gallery of highflying lobbyists

Best commentary yet on the Age Problem. prospect.org/politics/202...

To His Coy Fellow Democratsprospect.org (With apologies to Andrew Marvell)

My latest is about this week’s GOP platform hearings and the politics of nihilism: newrepublic.com/article/1835...

The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yetnewrepublic.com Don't be fooled by the Trump GOP platform fight: It's a ruse.

The Madness of Justice Alito www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/o...

Opinion | A Dismissed Abortion Case Points to Internal Tensions and Dysfunction at the Supreme Courtwww.nytimes.com The court dismisses an abortion case it now says it should never have accepted, opening a window on internal tensions.

It’s been a lousy week, but enough bedwetting. Democrats, Matthew Desmond writes, are “fluent in the language of grievance and bumbling in the language of repair.” Here, from April, is my repair blueprint. Democrats, you have four months. Use them wisely. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

Yes, Joe Biden Can Win the Working-Class Votenewrepublic.com Since 2020, Joe Biden’s support among working-class voters of all races has fallen alarmingly. Here are seven ways he and his party can reverse the slide.

Since you were planning to blow your brains out anyway, here’s another reason: the Supreme Court just castrated the regulatory state. I’m kidding about the blowing your brains out part. Read my Liberties Journal essay instead. libertiesjournal.com/articles/a-p...

A Prayer for the Administrative State - Libertieslibertiesjournal.com In February 2017, Steve Bannon, then senior counselor and chief strategist to President Donald Trump, pledged to a gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC; initiates pronounce ...

Seeking diversion from Biden’s weak performance in last night’s debate? My latest is about the asteroid menace. newrepublic.com/article/1832...

Did I Mention an Asteroid May Kill You?newrepublic.com As two of these killers pass near the Earth, let’s ponder an underappreciated global threat.

My latest: Corporations may look powerful, but in reality they’ve been reduced to playing ATM to hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds. Doing everything they hate—unionizing them, raising corporate taxes, banning stock buybacks—might coax them back to life. newrepublic.com/article/1831...

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cut Created a Huge Stock-Buyback Spreenewrepublic.com You probably think that shows corporations are too powerful. I think this shows corporations are enslaved by Wall Street, and should be set free.

Charles Trueheart has written a superb book about Vietnam and four families: the Kennedys, the Diems, the Saigon ambassador’s, and his own. My review: washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/24/h...

How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats. Charles Trueheart’s account of his father’s battles with a once-close fellow Foreign Service officer in Saigon illuminates the American trag...

Eighteen years ago I explained (in Slate) how summer camp reveals the essence of individual human character. Right now it’s really hot outside, so I figure it’s about time to re-post. Read it and weep. slate.com/news-and-pol...

You Are How You Campedslate.com If there's a more reliable Rorschach than sleep-away camp, I'd like to see it. How you responded to being shipped off (often at an appallingly tender...

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A Donald Trump victory would be catastrophic for the nation. It could also be a lifesaver for the struggling news industry. newrepublic.com/article/1829...

Save Journalism, Elect Trumpnewrepublic.com I’m not saying my better self wants this. But villains do sell newspapers.

Mitt Romney gripes that the bottom 47 percent don’t pay taxes and loses an election. Trump just proposed hitting this group (now 40 percent) with a 70 percent across the board tariff, returning America to the 19th century, and … crickets. My latest: newrepublic.com/article/1827...

Replacing Taxes With Tariffs Would Take Us Back to the 1800snewrepublic.com Trump a populist? Populism came about to lower tariffs!

While we await a Supreme Court ruling on Chevron deference read my Liberties Journal essay tracing the history of regulation (older than you think), the late-1940s popularization of the phrase “administrative state” to wage quixotic war against empiricism, etc. libertiesjournal.com/articles/a-p...

It’s a glorious day to be a psychopath taking out his frustrations on a classroom filled with too goddamned many children. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks' ban is unlawfulwww.nbcnews.com The ban was imposed by the Trump administration after the accessory was used during the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.

If the problem with our economy is inflation, why are corporate leaders sucking up to the more inflationist candidate? Not to mention an insurrectionist and convicted felon who has also (yawn) been found by a jury to be guilty of sexual abuse. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1826...

10 Questions That Chief Execs Should be Asking Trumpnewrepublic.com Top of the list: How do we keep a straight face when you pretend to be an inflation hawk?

Dear service workers: Please don’t get taken in by Donald Trump’s promise not to tax tips. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1825...

Trump’s Pledge to Leave Cash Tips Untaxed Doesn’t Hold upnewrepublic.com Still, service workers in Nevada cheered Trump’s proposal to eliminate taxes on tips.

In Backbencher, Tom Ricks on what’s wrong with bucket lists. Subscribe to Backbencher today—it’s free, for cryin’ out loud. timothynoah.substack.com/p/ban-the-bu...

Ban the Bucket Listtimothynoah.substack.com Don't anticipate your own death. Try to prevent civilization's.

If Congress truly shut down congressional insider trading a dozen years ago, why are there two index funds pegged to trades by members of Congress? My latest: newrepublic.com/article/1822...

How to Get Rich in Congressnewrepublic.com A straight-up pay raise might reduce members’ temptation to trade on inside information or pad their expense accounts.

My latest is about why Trump should get a jail sentence. newrepublic.com/article/1821...

Lock Him Up!: Why Donald Trump Should Do Jail Time Before the Electionnewrepublic.com Granted, most first-time offenders who commit this particular crime don’t do time. But Trump isn’t most first-time offenders.

Will Noah interviews Richard Pena and Nicolas Saada about how Hollywood cracked up in the 1960s. www.criterion.com/current/post...

American Cinema’s Sixties Crack-Upwww.criterion.com During a period of seismic change in U.S. history, the Hollywood studio system began to fracture beyond repair, resulting in a new freedom in how movies explored themes of violence, psychosis, and soc...

I had a great hourlong conversation today on “On Point” with Meghna Chakrabarti, Malachi and Monique Norris, and Jim Horch about the Democrats and the working class. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024...?

How Democrats can win back the working classwww.wbur.org Democrats are losing working-class voters at an alarming rate, despite the popularity of President Biden’s policies. A roundtable of working-class voters share what Democrats can do to win them back.

Please read this. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/o...

Opinion | This Policy Issue Is Critical Above All Otherswww.nytimes.com This is a choice between two fundamentally different visions for our country.

My latest: newrepublic.com/article/1819...

Everybody Hates Ticketmasternewrepublic.com A Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against the ticket seller’s parent company, Live Nation, may well bring Republicans and Democrats together.

The working class love Donald Trump and the GOP, but Donald Trump and the GOP do not love it back. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1818...

Here’s What Trump and the GOP Really Think About the Working Classnewrepublic.com Trump polls very well with voters without college degrees. But organized labor polls well with even more voters. Make a move, Democrats.