Category: Kevin Drum

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s time for some weekend trivia. Every week the Washington Post gives some money to a couple of readers who use it to go on a date. In the latest edition of this merrymaking, the young couple (ages 25 and 30) spent more than the…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Paul Romer, the chief economist of the World Bank, told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that the bank’s “Doing Business” rankings had been systematically gamed over the past few years to change Chile’s ranking: The former director of the group responsible for the report, Augusto…

Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you surely know by now, Donald Trump’s lawyer arranged a payment of $130,000 to porn star Stephanie Clifford—aka Stormy Daniels—during the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. However, Trump didn’t have an affair with her and this…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For some reason there’s been a lot of chatter lately about wages finally going up after eight years of economic expansion. Really? For ordinary workers, wages went up in 2015 and 2016 but have been pretty flat in 2017. In December their wages increased a…

Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. James Damore, you may recall, is the Google engineer who wrote a memo on an internal chat board suggesting (among other things) that women might be underrepresented among the ranks of engineering because of innate differences in their job…

Ray Tang/London News Pictures via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Stung by Michael Wolff’s portrayal of him as a childlike idiot in Fire and Fury, President Trump embarked on a series of public events this week designed to show the country that he’s well briefed and in command of…