Timothy Noah
@timothynoah.bsky.social
Staff writer at the New Republic (third tour), former Politico, former Slate, former Wall Street Journal, former Newsweek, former Washington Monthly, former US News and World Report, plus some other places. (I get around.)
You want the good news first? Trump’s approval rating is falling into unknown territory. The bad news is he’s taking your 401(k) down with him. My latest.
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Polls Are Tumbling. So Is the Stock Market. Coincidence?
No. But also, yes.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
You want the good news first? Trump’s approval rating is falling into unknown territory. The bad news is he’s taking your 401(k) down with him. My latest.
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
This starts on Zoom at 7:30 p.m. EST and I'm delighted to report that my former New Republic colleague John Judis, editor at large at Talking Points Memo and author of "The Socialist Awakening," will join us as a panelist.
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This starts on Zoom at 7:30 p.m. EST and I'm delighted to report that my former New Republic colleague John Judis, editor at large at Talking Points Memo and author of "The Socialist Awakening," will join us as a panelist.
I talked with my New Republic colleague Greg Sargent about Trump’s approval rating and the stock market spiraling downward.
Trump’s Anger over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
As Trump’s inflation rants grow more unhinged amid brutal new polls for him, an economics writer explains why Trump is ill-suited for the crisis that might be coming—and why the bottom might be about ...
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I talked with my New Republic colleague Greg Sargent about Trump’s approval rating and the stock market spiraling downward.
I talk with my friend Michael Schaffer about the endangered Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,” with murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others. Trump wants to sell it, and a buyer would likely demolish it.
dc.citycast.fm/podcasts/tru...
dc.citycast.fm/podcasts/tru...
Trump Is Gutting DC’s Coolest Secret Museum - City Cast DC
You’ve probably never heard of the Wilbur J. Cohen federal building. It’s a government office building just off the Mall houses a collection of mas...
dc.citycast.fm
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I talk with my friend Michael Schaffer about the endangered Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,” with murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and others. Trump wants to sell it, and a buyer would likely demolish it.
dc.citycast.fm/podcasts/tru...
dc.citycast.fm/podcasts/tru...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'm looking forward to moderating a Nov. 20 Zoom panel, "Socialism: Better Red Than Dead."
Just kidding!
It's "Socialism: Beyond the Myths and Fears," featuring Columbia U.'s Axel Honneth and Nadia Urbinati.
Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Be there or be square.
www.nfrpp.org/event/social...
Just kidding!
It's "Socialism: Beyond the Myths and Fears," featuring Columbia U.'s Axel Honneth and Nadia Urbinati.
Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Be there or be square.
www.nfrpp.org/event/social...
Socialism: Beyond the Myths and Fears
The concept of socialism has been debated for generations—often surrounded by controversy, confusion, and fear. In the United States, the very word “socialism” can spark strong emotions, even as many ...
www.nfrpp.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'm looking forward to moderating a Nov. 20 Zoom panel, "Socialism: Better Red Than Dead."
Just kidding!
It's "Socialism: Beyond the Myths and Fears," featuring Columbia U.'s Axel Honneth and Nadia Urbinati.
Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Be there or be square.
www.nfrpp.org/event/social...
Just kidding!
It's "Socialism: Beyond the Myths and Fears," featuring Columbia U.'s Axel Honneth and Nadia Urbinati.
Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Be there or be square.
www.nfrpp.org/event/social...
This is wonderful news. The Village Theater is where I first saw “The Godfather” in 1972.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Jason Reitman-Led Filmmaker Collective Partners With American Cinematheque to Run Westwood’s Village Theater
The team-up is the latest stage in the effort to preserve the architectural gem and create a cultural landmark.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is wonderful news. The Village Theater is where I first saw “The Godfather” in 1972.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Aristopopulism is the new term Trumpies use to describe their revolutionary struggle against the rule of law, the regulatory state, the separation of powers, the canons of ethics, and anything else that inconveniences the rich. My latest.
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Welcome to the Age of Aristopopulism
As you might suspect, it’s just a fancy word for oligarchy and kleptocracy.
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Aristopopulism is the new term Trumpies use to describe their revolutionary struggle against the rule of law, the regulatory state, the separation of powers, the canons of ethics, and anything else that inconveniences the rich. My latest.
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
The Olivia Nuzzi piece in Vanity Fair would read better if it were billed as a deliberate Joan Didion parody.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi piece in Vanity Fair would read better if it were billed as a deliberate Joan Didion parody.
Reposted by Timothy Noah
Eyes as blue as the flame
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Eyes as blue as the flame
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
Shedding tears for a rose:
Sights that wrench a girl’s heart
Like whale juice stings the nose
His love, so insatiable
Complex and dark
More perplexing by far
Than roadkill in a park
He promised a baby,
A bullet--no pain--
A future as long
As the worm in his brain.
"She writes that despite being 'sober' for decades, Kennedy told her that he still uses psychedelics, and even smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful drug on which people are known to have what feel like near-death experiences."
Make America High Again?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Make America High Again?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"She writes that despite being 'sober' for decades, Kennedy told her that he still uses psychedelics, and even smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful drug on which people are known to have what feel like near-death experiences."
Make America High Again?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Make America High Again?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Now I bet Kevin Roberts is REALLY confused. What's an apparatchik to do?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Now I bet Kevin Roberts is REALLY confused. What's an apparatchik to do?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
“I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,” said the Heritage Foundation president. “I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy. I still don’t.”
“I still don’t” is the cry for help—“Yes I’m lying, I’m not even good at it, pity me!” Sorry, bud. No.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“I still don’t” is the cry for help—“Yes I’m lying, I’m not even good at it, pity me!” Sorry, bud. No.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Under Fire for Tucker Carlson Remarks, Think Tank Chief Pleads Ignorance
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“I actually don’t have time to consume a lot of news,” said the Heritage Foundation president. “I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy. I still don’t.”
“I still don’t” is the cry for help—“Yes I’m lying, I’m not even good at it, pity me!” Sorry, bud. No.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“I still don’t” is the cry for help—“Yes I’m lying, I’m not even good at it, pity me!” Sorry, bud. No.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Out-of-town tryout for new GOP line?
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Out-of-town tryout for new GOP line?
My previous rant about other news organizations not writing about Trump preparing to sell off "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" went gratifyingly viral, giving me an occasion to re-post my New Republic pieces that broke this news:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
newrepublic.com/article/2012...
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
newrepublic.com/article/2012...
The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing
Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.
newrepublic.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My previous rant about other news organizations not writing about Trump preparing to sell off "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" went gratifyingly viral, giving me an occasion to re-post my New Republic pieces that broke this news:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
newrepublic.com/article/2012...
newrepublic.com/article/2010...
newrepublic.com/article/2012...
What we know for sure is that the “news” in yesterday’s email dump wasn’t that Trump knew about Epstein’s activities, as the coverage claims. We knew that before—because Trump said so! The NEWS is the “dog that hasn’t barked” email, a piece of this jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t fit the others.
Still waiting for a plausible explanation for what the Epstein victim mentioned in Epstein’s “dog that hasn’t barked” email who “spent hours at my house with him” could have been doing with Donald Trump. Republicans say it was Virginia Giuffre, who’s on record absolving Trump. This doesn’t add up.
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What we know for sure is that the “news” in yesterday’s email dump wasn’t that Trump knew about Epstein’s activities, as the coverage claims. We knew that before—because Trump said so! The NEWS is the “dog that hasn’t barked” email, a piece of this jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t fit the others.
Still waiting for a plausible explanation for what the Epstein victim mentioned in Epstein’s “dog that hasn’t barked” email who “spent hours at my house with him” could have been doing with Donald Trump. Republicans say it was Virginia Giuffre, who’s on record absolving Trump. This doesn’t add up.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Still waiting for a plausible explanation for what the Epstein victim mentioned in Epstein’s “dog that hasn’t barked” email who “spent hours at my house with him” could have been doing with Donald Trump. Republicans say it was Virginia Giuffre, who’s on record absolving Trump. This doesn’t add up.
Excellent review of Trump’s crypto corruption by Joseph Nocera in the Free Press:
www.thefp.com/p/inside-tru...
www.thefp.com/p/inside-tru...
Inside Trump’s Crypto Cash Machine
The Trump family’s staggeringly lucrative crypto business has added billions to the president’s net worth in a matter of months—and left more than a whiff of corruption, writes Joe Nocera.
www.thefp.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excellent review of Trump’s crypto corruption by Joseph Nocera in the Free Press:
www.thefp.com/p/inside-tru...
www.thefp.com/p/inside-tru...
God help me, I agree with MAGA about something.
I don’t know how seriously to take the safety argument—there were minor injuries in a crash this week—but I loathe Dulles Airport’s few remaining “mobile lounges” and don’t know anybody who can stand them.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I don’t know how seriously to take the safety argument—there were minor injuries in a crash this week—but I loathe Dulles Airport’s few remaining “mobile lounges” and don’t know anybody who can stand them.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump airport nominee wants to eliminate Dulles ‘people movers’
The unique shuttles, which have been in operation since 1962, have been blamed for delays and accidents. A White House official Tuesday called them “notorious.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
God help me, I agree with MAGA about something.
I don’t know how seriously to take the safety argument—there were minor injuries in a crash this week—but I loathe Dulles Airport’s few remaining “mobile lounges” and don’t know anybody who can stand them.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I don’t know how seriously to take the safety argument—there were minor injuries in a crash this week—but I loathe Dulles Airport’s few remaining “mobile lounges” and don’t know anybody who can stand them.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Wow, I didn’t expect to see a smoking gun in re Trump, but here it is. Ghislaine, may we have a word?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the Jeffrey Epstein Emails That Mention Trump
House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein sent messages to his longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff suggesting that Donald J. Trump knew more ...
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Wow, I didn’t expect to see a smoking gun in re Trump, but here it is. Ghislaine, may we have a word?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
