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"I Don't Understand What's Happening To This Country"
America was angry in the 1960s. Today it's angry and mean.
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Timothy Noah
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Trump's "Grown-Ups" May Be More Dangerous Than His Enablers
The case of indiscriminate tariffs.
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Timothy Noah
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Er, Whoops, Here's My New Republic Link
Wherein I neglect to help readers find my New Republic piece about the Trump pardons, which was the whole point of posting. Backbencher regrets the…
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Timothy Noah
Brian Sicknick's Life Doesn't Matter
Not to Trump, and not to the Fraternal Order of Police.
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Timothy Noah
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He Is Risen!
In his second inaugural, Donald Trump celebrated his political resurrection and said it was America's, too. I watched so you didn't have to.
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Timothy Noah
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Inaugurals Committee Are A Crude Protection Racket
No self-respecting banana republic would tolerate such obvious corruption.
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Timothy Noah
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Bidenomics Was A Success
It's terribly elitist to say so, but I'm sorry, it happens to be true.
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Timothy Noah
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Don't Make Canada the 51st State. Make the U.S. Canada's 11th Province.
There's only one well-governed nation on the North American continent right now, and it ain't the United States.
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Timothy Noah
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The Emperor's New Tariff
Trump may not know it, but he's retreating from his across-the-board tariff on all foreign goods. It's best that no one tell him.
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Timothy Noah
Why the Democrats' Future Is Brighter Than The Republicans'
Unfashionable optimism inspired by 42 year-old thoughts from my former boss Hendrik Hertzberg.
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Timothy Noah
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Why Medicare Advantage Stinks
The most popular Medicare option these days is the privatized version. It's a scam.
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Timothy Noah
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Autonomous
How the 2026 uprising began.
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Thomas E. Ricks
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