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.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.