American - Journalist | 1958 -
Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
Timothy Noah
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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
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The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
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The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.
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Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
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Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
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The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.
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The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
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For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.
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Working people vote!
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.
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The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'
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