When the White House is overcovered, the rest of the executive branch gets neglected.
Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah is a staff writer at The New Republic, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, and the author of The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It.
Posted inBooks, June/July/August 2017, Magazine
Manufacturing Won’t Save Us
At the gut level, allowing our industrial base to shrink seems incredibly unwise. But it’s maddeningly difficult to make an evidence-based case for rescuing it.
Posted inMagazine, September/October 2016
Tilting at Windmills
The futility of trying to normalize Trump … Dale Carnegie versus Norman Vincent Peale …
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Honoring the Brilliant Caricaturist, Vint Lawrence
Vint Lawrence, a brilliant caricaturist for the Washington Monthly, the New Republic, and the Washington Post, died April 9th at the age of 76 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. At a dinner at the Dupont Circle restaurant Otello in the late 1980s I once heard Christopher Hitchens introduce Vint as “the cartoonist in this […]
Posted inMagazine, Politics, September/October 2014
The Monthly Interview: Ralph Nader
In his new book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State, the consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader argues that on many issues, from undeclared wars to unprosecuted Wall Street crimes, liberal and conservative citizens increasingly agree with each other, and that, by working together, they can take back Washington. […]
Posted inPolitics
The Ethics of Dog Crap Disposal
The mayor of San Marino, Calif., resigned June 17 after he got caught picking up a bag of dog feces lying near a public sidewalk and tossing it onto his neighbor’s property. The neighbor, Philip Lao, had posted two “No Poop Zone” signs that the mayor, Dennis Kneier, may have viewed as a provocation. Kneier […]
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
Stay Put, Young Man
Americans used to be exceptional for how often they moved. But that once-powerful source of both efficiency and upward mobility is now in steep decline.
Posted inBooks, Economy, July/August 2013, Magazine
The Glory of the Commons
Jonathan Rowe’s brilliant posthumous meditation on the shared, non-commercialized realms of life that sustain us.
Posted inMagazine
Timothy Noah on the Baby Boomers
The year 1983 saw the release of The Big Chill, a film that capitalized on the early waves of baby boomer nostalgia with the story of a group of thirtysomething friends looking back upon their 60s youth. Washington Monthly editor Timothy Noahborn on the tail end of the baby boom, which missed the sixtiestook aim […]
Posted inMagazine
How Our Health Care Stacks Up With Slovenias
e dont have a health care crisis in this country,” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan stated publicly in September 1993, three days before President Bill Clinton was to unveil his health care reform bill. Moynihans remark, coming from a member of the presidents own party, did a lot more than Harry and Louise to kill off […]
