Category: Kevin Drum

Australian ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey.Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend the New York Times ran a story about the event that first sparked the FBI investigation of Donald Trump’s connection to Russia during the 2016 campaign. It turns out that campaign advisor…

Monica Winston adjusts to her tent in a tent city set up in San Diego. A Hepatitis A outbreak is one of the reasons the tent city was created.John Gastaldo via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In theory, the budget reconciliation process was intended to be used for passing…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. These are not necessarily the top ten best quotes of the year. They’re just the top ten among those I happened to have posted as a Quote of the Day. They’re in no special order. #1. Lou Dobbs wants to arrest Barack Obama Responding to…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier today I criticized Ross Douthat’s column acknowledging that he was wrong about deficits. That’s fine, some might say, but what about you, big talker? Any big mistakes you’d like to own up to this year? Sure. The problem here isn’t ego, it’s laziness. I…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ross Douthat decided to devote his entire year-end “mistakes” column to a single thing this year: In the spirit of the longer view, I want to use this confessional column to reach back to the early Obama years, and the arguments I made then that…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was slightly under the weather today and had nothing better to do than noodle around on the computer, so let’s do some more chart geekery. This morning a reader sent me a link to this chart in the New York Times about binge drinking:…