Category: Kevin Drum

Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.After 12½ years at Mother Jones, this is finally it: my last blog post. This has, literally, been a dream job, getting paid to do something I’d be happy to do…

As of the end of the month, here’s where we stand on vaccinations compared to every country in Europe. Note that this counts the number of doses, not the number of people vaccinated, since some people have already received two doses. Some countries are doing better than others, but overall the US is at 9.4…

Carol Guzy/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Ha ha ha: Former President Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, two people familiar…

In her quest to drink water from every possible receptacle, Hopper found something new this morning. Our neighbor’s trash can fell over in the night and the lid filled up with lovely, tasty rainwater. What more could a cat want?

Mary Evans via ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Today is my last full day at Mother Jones, although I’ll be around for the rest of the weekend and blogging as the mood hits me. With…

Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Eric Cantor was one of the “young guns” of the Republican Party until 2014, when he was suddenly deemed insufficiently conservative and lost to a fellow named Dave Brat…