Timothy Noah, formerly a senior editor at the newly-relaunched New Republic, sent the political sector of Twitter into a confused frenzy Friday afternoon when he tweeted the magazine had unexpectedly fired him.
Washington D.C. is a weird city that keeps giving us bizarre, extreme examples of what Franklin Foer referred to in this week's New York Times Magazine as the "social Ponzi scheme."
In their bid to turn The New Republic into The New Yorker of Washington D.C., newly reinstalled editor Franklin Foer and slightly less new owner Chris Hughes are on a bit of a hiring spree Thursday.
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