Category: Kevin Drum

Democrats and Republicans alike have been eagerly grilling the CEOs of social media companies lately about their complicity in spreading disinformation. This is being done under the implied threat that if they don’t do something, Congress will do it for them. I have a problem with this. Two problems, actually. First, everyone would be outraged…

In today’s picture, Hilbert shows off his stretching ability after an exhausting five minutes lying on the patio. That is one handsome cat, isn’t it?

Yesterday I showed you the current COVID-19 death rate in the US compared to similar European countries. The US looked fairly good, down toward the bottom of the pack. But the US and Europe took different paths to their current levels. In Europe, mortality dropped nearly to zero over the summer. In the US, we…

Elias Funez/Modesto Bee/ZUMAPRESS 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.Toward the end of a Twitter conversation about working from home, Will Wilkinson suddenly makes this observation: It’s really striking how the decline in the % of people…

U.S. Marines/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.It’s official: apparently the reason Donald Trump has been firing all the top leaders at the Pentagon is because he wanted new leaders who would agree to withdraw troops…

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.Here’s a little story. I had lunch a few days ago with a Republican friend. Not a tea party crank, just a normal, moderate Republican. We were talking about Donald Trump…