Timothy Noah is a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly. This piece first appeared in Backbencher. He is the author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It.
Why Republicans Should Make Future Minimum Wage Hikes Automatic
Mitt Romney figured this out two decades ago. Now we just need him to remember.
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Amazon is trying to block its workers from casting mail-in ballots for an upcoming union election.
What’s Wrong With One-Term Presidents?
Leave aside Donald Trump. For swaths of American history presidents being reelected was unusual. Maybe that’s not so bad.
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Terrence Malick’s films probe nature and sin with painterly beauty and occasionally eye-rolling monologues. “A Hidden Life,” the director’s vision of sainthood in the Alps was ignored in 2019. Thanks to the journal “Liberties,” it may get the viewers it deserves.
COVID, OSHA Complaints, And Unsafe Labor Practices
Owing to the pandemic, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration gets COVID complaints that go unanswered. A Harvard study finds they correspond workplace deaths.
