Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

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

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.