Category: Kevin Drum

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Conservative calls to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller are really getting crazy. The Fox News gang has gone gaga over the idea that Mueller is actually a liberal mole who’s hellbent on getting rid of Donald Trump. Republicans in Congress are going down the same…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I was just over at Breitbart looking for something I didn’t find, but I did find this: I wonder if they really thought through this headline before they put it up?

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The American economy gained 228,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 138,000 jobs. That’s not bad. The headline unemployment rate stayed steady at 4.1 percent. However, the…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jobs figures for November will be released in a couple of hours, and the consensus forecast is that they’ll be fine. While you wait, however, here’s another chart to look at: Productivity growth has dropped like a stone since 2005, and is currently hovering around…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hey, remember the great crime surge of 2015-16? It was all about the “Ferguson Effect,” as police officers became afraid to do their jobs properly for fear of being unfairly dragged into court by lefty activists. Hoodlums all realized this meant they could have a…

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at the Washington Post, Callum Borchers rounds up the reaction on Fox News to the forced resignation of Al Franken from the Senate. First up is Tucker Carlson: “Imagine being accused by someone whose name you didn’t know of something…