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.Have you heard of Substack? If you don’t pay close attention to the online writing/blogging/punditing world, you might not have. But it’s currently enjoying its 15 minutes of fame. Newsletters are…

Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly 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 the White House told the Pentagon to begin planning for a substantial drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan. Mitch McConnell was not amused: Senate Majority…

By now you’ve all heard the news that the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 has been 95 percent effective in early testing. Obviously this is nice to hear, and the only thing I have to add is that it’s good news for more than just its success against the coronavirus. Both Pfizer and Moderna employed an…

Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 15. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. For the time being, I’ve stopped tracking the trendline from France since they aren’t reporting new numbers (or Johns Hopkins isn’t recording them). Until this changes, the chart for France only goes up through November 11.

Greg Nash – Pool Via Cnp/CNP 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.A federal judge has restored DACA—which protects immigrants living in the US since childhood—to nearly full operation. That’s great, and I’m happy about…

Here’s the coronavirus death toll through November 14. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. Once again, ignore the recent data from France. Their death rate is not going down. For some reason, though, they haven’t reported any new numbers for the past three days.