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.A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I would be leaving Mother Jones at the end of the month and going back to blogging at my own site. That site…

Ken Cedeno – 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.I have been browsing many articles over the past few days that ponder the question of whether Joe Biden will be able to…

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.The Wall Street Journal reports that people in Wuhan are bitter about how authorities handled the coronavirus last year: There are signs that authorities are rattled by the initial outpouring of…

When Hopper hops onto my lap and rolls over for a tummy rub, I usually don’t have my camera handy. A few days ago, though, I did. This is what it looks like, up close and personal.

Here’s something unexpected that I ran across by accident. Despite the fact that Black people have lower flu vaccination rates and higher hospitalization rates compared to white people, their death rate is consistently lower: This is a huge contrast with COVID-19, which the CDC estimates is nearly three times more deadly for Black people compared…

According to the OECD, here is the minimum wage in most of the developed countries of the world: The United States currently has the lowest minimum wage by a big margin. If it were raised to $15, it would be among the highest.