Timothy Noah

Next up for the Times opinion section: Why It’s So Hard To Find A Decent Personal Chef.

The plutocrats are restless.

Our newly confirmed ambassador to the European Union.

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Opinion | When Everybody Has Airport Lounge Access, Nobody Does

I have never been inside an airport lounge in my life, mostly because I don’t want to pay, but now I have a new reason: It’s full of crybabies who complain in one breath they’ll let in anybody and the next it’s too hard to get in.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Trump economic adviser defends firing of labor official after soft jobs report Kevin Hassett pointed to the scale of hiring data revisions when asked for evidence to support Trump’s claims that the jobs report was politically rigged.

In the competition to become Fed chair no one can match the ass-kissing of Kevin Hassett.

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Nixon's Jew count: the whole story! It was the last recorded act of official anti-Semitism by the United States government. Boy, was it ever recorded! On Sept. 24, the presidential...

No account of presidents hating on the BLS is complete without the tale of Nixon’s Jew purge, about which Fred Malek never came 100 percent clean. That didn’t keep him from collecting an award from the Anti-Defamation League for throwing money at Israel:

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I am late to this excellent piece on How We Got Here, highly recommend!

Thanks!

Hypergamy? David Geffen’s Divorce Gives New Meaning to an Old Term

“Mr. Geffen, whose net worth has been estimated at more than $8 billion, did not sign a prenuptial agreement with Mr. Armstrong.”

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They passed the bill!

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Here’s a GOP strategy memo on how to sell the Big, Beautiful Bill at town hall meetings. It’s full of misleading and blatantly false claims, esp about lost Medicaid coverage, a doubled deficit, and tax cuts for the rich. Not hard for Ds to counter this effectively.

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YouTube video by Fredde21 Tom Lehrer - I Hold Your Hand In Mine

Tom Lehrer, RIP.

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Agreed, but subsequent changes to taxation of capital did a lot, too.

My piece describes how Nixon and Chuck “I’d run over my grandmother to elect Richard Nixon” Colson set the stage by raising $ for AEI.

Robert Reich tells the New York Times that during the past 60-70 years we let billionaires take over:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/m...

If you want to know how it happened, settle into a comfy chair and read my New Republic piece relating this history:

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I would very much like to be wrong.

The Epstein Files Can’t Save the Democrats This story is tailor made for the July-August silly season, but it will go away when the weather cools.

My message today for Democrats is that the Epstein files won't save you, and the only reason you think it will is that it's too hot outside.

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Arnie Arnesen Attitude July 23 2025 Part 1:We talk with Patricia Callahan, who is a Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter.We discuss the liability rules and liability shields for Vaccine makers in the US. With changes being impl...

I always enjoy talking to Arnie Arnesen. Here we discuss new research by the Center for Working Class Politics showing the working class is more liberal than you think. I'm at 29:40.

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Trump’s Epstein Scandal Turns Another Beltway Cliche on Its Head Once upon a time we use to say that the cover-up was worse than the crime. It’s safe to say we need to rethink this.

The Epstein case proves yet again the falsity of the Washington cliche that the cover up is worse than the crime. It’s always been a particularly bad fit for Trump. My latest:

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Johnson Retreats on Demand for Epstein Disclosures, Saying Trump Needs ‘Space’

It’s already over.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...

The Working Class Is More Left Than You Think A new survey shows that even Trump’s working class coalition is moving leftward on social issues.

An important new study by the Center for Working Class Politics shows the working class is moving left on social issues—just not as fast as the Brahmin left—and on economic
issues the Brahmin left is catching up and on some issues overtaking the proles. My latest.

newrepublic.com/article/1981...

Commentary: She looked like a pro-worker Trump cabinet appointee. But now she's gutting the Labor Department Unions were optimistic about the appointment of Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor Secretary, but her actions have dashed their hopes.

Lori Chavez-DeRoma: Pro-labor congressional Republican turned anti-labor Trump labor secretary. Excellent Michael Hiltzik column.

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Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

“The age of the take-home essay as a tool for measuring mastery and comprehension is over.”

—Meghan O’Rourke

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force

ICE is killing your grandma.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

The WSJ scoop is fun but the text of that note is hard to parse and the drawing isn’t nearly so offensive as “Grab ‘em by the pussy.” Plus we knew Trump and Epstein were pals. It’s weird that Trump even bothers to deny it. When Spy called him a short-fingered vulgarian he never disputed “vulgarian.”