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.Finally, some genuine good news to greet me in the morning: And now some breaking news on #SundayMorning… President-elect @JoeBiden and his wife @DrBiden won’t just be bringing their German shepherds,…

Most of you know this already, but you should ignore the small downward dip in the US data. It’s just an artificial reporting gap due to the Thanksgiving weekend. It will return to normal next week. Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 27. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

Our cats are both uninterested in people food. This is normally a good thing, but they take it to such extremes that I can’t even get them to take a sniff of a turkey for a Thanksgiving photo. This is the closest I got, and in reality Hopper is just walking around the turkey, which…

The United States recorded 2,300 deaths on Wednesday and passed 5 deaths per million, with no sign of any slowing down or flattening. Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 25. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.

You might be as weary of this stuff as I am, but here is the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past five years: Basically nothing new has happened recently even if, technically, the Dow set yet another “record” today. If you draw a trendline through the end of 2019 and then extend it (dashed…

Election law guru Rick Hasen says it’s good news that Donald Trump has lost virtually every court challenge in his doomed effort to overturn the 2020 election results. But there’s also bad news: Even as Mr. Trump has lost most of his postelection lawsuits, he and his allies had a good bit of success before…