Category: Kevin Drum

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump gave a long interview to the Wall Street Journal today. An hour in, an aide reminded him he had another meeting coming up: White House official: Excuse me, I just—we have about two or three minutes left and you’ve got to go to…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m back from lunch. It’s a nice day, so I walked. There was a lovely egret in our storm channel that I’d like to get a picture of someday. So did anything happen while I was go— President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Continuing on our theme of the day, here’s the total net worth of the Forbes 400 list of the world’s richest people: This might actually understate things since it’s a global list, not just an American one. But even at that, the wealth of the world’s…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ohio removes people from the voting rolls if they have failed to vote in the past two years and then fail to respond to a notice and fail to vote during the next four years after that. But federal law says that you can’t remove…

Behold the inexplicably useless new Windows on-screen keyboard. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m about to post some serious stuff—honest—but first I have to get something off my chest. I have never been as pissed off about an operating system “upgrade” as I am over the new on-screen keyboard in…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s another reason I think the rise of income inequality is real. If income inequality had stayed about the same over the past few decades, then you’d expect wealth inequality to stay roughly the same too. But that’s not what’s happened: Measurement of wealth has…