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 studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.