Category: Kevin Drum

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has banned the Centers for Disease Control from using seven specific words. Unfortunately they haven’t yet offered the CDC’s scientists replacement words. I’m here to help: Everyone happy now?

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As usual around this time of year, our fundraising team reached out¹ and asked that I put up a post asking you to support Mother Jones with a year-end donation. You know the drill: as a nonprofit, Mother Jones wouldn’t exist without readers who value…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m curious about something, but first a caveat: data from exit polls isn’t always perfect. However, more reliable data from the ACS and ANES surveys aren’t available yet for the 2017 vote in Alabama. And that’s not all: exit polls aren’t even available for Alabama…

Richard Ellis via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. We all know that FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page don’t think much of Donald Trump. This is because the FBI, for reasons they still haven’t explained, decided to release a whole bunch of private texts they sent…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I guess you can file this under “too much free time on my hands.” But I was curious: will Doug Jones be not just the first Democratic Senator from Alabama since 1992, but the most liberal Alabama senator in recent history? Based on scores from…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember how the Senate version of the tax bill didn’t quite pencil out, so they decided to make the individual tax cuts temporary? In 2025, they go bye bye. But it looks like maybe that still didn’t quite do the job: Congressional Republicans are looking…