“Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise.”

American journalist and author

Timothy Robert Noah is an American journalist and author, and a staff writer at The New Republic. He has also worked as labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor at The New Republic, and a senior writer at Slate. At The New Republic, he wrote the biweekly "TRB From Washington" column, and at Slate he wrote the "Chatterbox" column for a decade. In 2012, he published The Great Divergence, a book about income inequality in the United States.