Category: Kevin Drum

The Heads of State Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I see that our story about Climategate is now online. You should read it! Here’s why Climategate is worth revisiting: “If you were a Russian operative [and] pitching influence ops for the DNC, and somebody’s like, ‘Eh, I don’t know about…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I am, obviously, out of touch with the bold new world of cryptocurrencies. According to the Wall Street Journal today, the biggest initial coin offering of the year is for EOS, which, it turns out, is not a coin at all. It’s not clear if…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember Donald Trump’s promise to keep American jobs in America? Of course you do. No longer will we tolerate American companies sending jobs offshore thanks to stupid tax laws and unfair competition. Not on Trump’s watch, anyway. Funny thing about that. According to the Washington…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. German Lopez channels the conventional wisdom: The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment https://t.co/ozBxkOmT7S — Vox (@voxdotcom) December 15, 2017 Technically, this is true. A number of different studies have shown that the strongest predictor of…

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Is bitcoin a good replacement for money? This is a popular question these days, but it’s poorly framed. “Money” should be thought of more as an adjective than a noun. That is, certain things are more moneylike than others. A dollar…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican tax bill is massively unpopular. It polls at about 30 percent approval—the worst showing of any major bill in recent history—and doesn’t crack 50 percent even among Republicans. And yet, the GOP leadership is hellbent on passing it. What’s going on? Bear with…