Category: Kevin Drum

Michael Evans/ZUMAPRESS Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m running out of things to say this year, so how about this: We should stop blaming boomers for “ruining America.” Everyone is picking on the wrong generation. Start in the 60s and 70s. Boomers were in college then, and they played significant…

Aaron Chown/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mark Schmidt of the New York Times held an impromptu interview with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago yesterday, and there are takes galore lighting up the internet. Probably all of them are accurate, but for my money the main takeaway isn’t…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Washington Post: For the second year in a row, life expectancy in the United States has dropped. It is not hard to understand why: In 2016, there was a 21 percent rise in the number of deaths caused by drug overdoses, with opioids…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The tiny town of Nipton, on the eastern edge of California in the Mojave Desert,¹ is about to become Marijuanaville: The nation’s largest publicly traded marijuana company, American Green, recently bought the town for $5 million, with plans to develop a “cannabis-driven” resort on the…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kevin Drum gets results! Yesterday I complained that for the past four weeks, the lowest trade for bitcoin has been exactly $10,000. Suspicious! Today, a reader emails to tell me that the low trade is $13,611.86. Interesting! I don’t know what happened, but I intend…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New York City is on its way to crime rates lower than anyone could have imagined a couple of decades ago: It would have seemed unbelievable in 1990, when there were 2,245 killings in New York City, but as of Wednesday there have been just…