Timothy Noah

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.