Category: Kevin Drum

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Billy Bush of Access Hollywood fame has a piece in the New York Times today. It’s mostly about Donald Trump’s infamous “grab ’em by the pussy” remark, but there’s also this about the summer of 2015, right after Trump announced his candidacy: In the days,…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Everybody loves the R&D tax credit. But when you pass a tax bill so fast that no one knows what’s really in it—and then top it off with a 24 hour gold rush of pet giveaways for all your favorite pals—accidents can happen. Like effectively…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From Fox’s Lou Dobbs, responding to a gentle suggestion from Barack Obama that it’s a good idea to have an “edit function” before you tweet: I mean, he should be brought back by the marshals. Isn’t there some law that says presidents shouldn’t be attacking…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Are American corporations overtaxed? Let’s find out! First off, here are corporate profits and tax rates since the Reagan era: Profits have been going up, up, up. Tax rates have been going down, down, down. You can probably guess what this means for owners of…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why is it no big deal that Michael Flynn pled guilty yesterday to a charge of lying to an FBI agent? Conservatives have run several excuses up the ol’ flagpole to see if anyone salutes. One tactic is to claim that everyone lies and it’s…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The swamp is back! After rounding up 51 votes, Senate Republicans are busily rewriting their tax bill so that every lobbyist will love it. The thing is already a Rube Goldberg monstrosity, and now it’s time to break out the Christmas presents. The senator from…