American - Journalist | 1958 -
We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls.
Timothy Noah
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The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.
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Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
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Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
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I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.
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The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama.
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If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.
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What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say.
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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.
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