Timothy Noah

The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power

Paying tribute to the late economist who, with David Card, changed America’s mind about the minimum wage.

They really think this is a campaign issue for Republicans? Has any candidate—even one—ever lost an election because he voted to raise the debt limit?

Leave it to Democrats to win a big political fight and then act as though they lost.

Governor Kristi Noem isn’t the problem. The other Dakota is a make-believe state devoted to the preservation of wealth dynasties, and it should just go away.

She loved compromise when it was with Republicans. With Democrats to her left, not so much.

Manchin says $1.5 trillion. Sanders says $3.5. So split the difference, guys. Here’s one way to do it.

The Senate Finance Committee is weighing a carbon tax, which is one tax the Arizona senator might support. But—shocker—she’s sent mixed signals.

It will pass. And we’ll all forget how worried we were that it wouldn’t.

The Biden administration must not only curb emissions. It also has to move swiftly to issue its planned OSHA regulation limiting the heat exposure that kills more workers every year.

Arthur Okun was a brilliant economist, but his classic book described a world that no longer exists.

The Golden State’s use of recall elections and ballot initiatives was a bad idea from the beginning. It’s an immeasurably worse one now.

Contrary to what you may have read, the Biden administration and Congress want to tax capital income and capital gains, not wealth. That’s the right call.

Because it’s only starting to emerge from its decades-long imprisonment by the GOP.

The president waited too long, but now he’s getting serious about fighting Covid-19.

Biden’s plan won’t hurt family farms and will affect only the rich. So why are some Democrats waffling?

Let’s get the facts straight about the Democrats’ reconciliation package and the effects of European-style social welfare.

The Silicon Valley superstar may finally be facing trial, but the fact that her company got away with the crimes for as long as it did is still disturbing.

The much-beloved author turns 80 today. Her seminal works on economic inequality remain both timeless and timely.