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" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "
Timothy Noah
Gun
Law
Kind
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" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "
Timothy Noah
Come
Experience
Worth
" With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. "
Timothy Noah
Nothing
Awareness
Color
" The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off. "
Timothy Noah
Four
Insurance
Same
" Working people vote! "
Timothy Noah
Vote
People
Working
" Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. "
Timothy Noah
Picture
Government
Decisions
" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "
Timothy Noah
May
Successful
Export
" Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all. "
Timothy Noah
Kid
Republican
You
" If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. "
Timothy Noah
Rights
Wish
Human Rights
" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "
Timothy Noah
Really
You
Were
" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "
Timothy Noah
Truth
Go
Enough
" Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. "
Timothy Noah
Meaning
Language
More
" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "
Timothy Noah
Come
Price
Tuition
" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "
Timothy Noah
Economics
Attention
Sometime
" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "
Timothy Noah
Committed
Democrats
Greenhouse
" 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
Results
Someone
Nation
" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "
Timothy Noah
Stupid
Bear
Change
" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "
Timothy Noah
Medical
Care
Health
" The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' "
Timothy Noah
Inevitable
Same
Result
" President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. "
Timothy Noah
Strategy
Election
Think
" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "
Timothy Noah
Republicans
Inflation
Seem
" Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' "
Timothy Noah
Tough
Luck
Think
" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "
Timothy Noah
Taxes
Only
Little
" The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. "
Timothy Noah
Afraid
Narrative
White
" Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. "
Timothy Noah
Economics
Place
Politics
" One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. "
Timothy Noah
Turn
Why
Job
" 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. "
Timothy Noah
Pharmaceutical
Fix
Health
" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "
Timothy Noah
Effort
Inequality
Reward
" The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. "
Timothy Noah
Violence
Perspective
American
" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "
Timothy Noah
Enemy
Government
His
" I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes. "
Timothy Noah
See
Away
Government