Timothy Noah is a weekly online columnist for the New Republic and a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly. He is the author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It.
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.
The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Malick
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.
How Can You Tell a Senate Republican Wants a Coronavirus Deal?
He or she is running for reelection. And it seems like every GOP Conference member who isn’t is denouncing the idea.
Why Won’t the White House Let the CDC Contact Trace Its Rose Garden Event?
The Amy Coney Barrett announcement offered evidence that medical professionals usually can only dream about. But Trump’s staff is shutting them out.
