Kevin Drum

Political Blogger

The inventor of Friday catblogging, Kevin was a blogosphere pioneer when, after a stint in marketing, he went online as Calpundit in 2003. Prior to joining MoJo, he blogged at the Washington Monthly's Political Animal. He lives with his wife and two cats in Irvine.

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Chart of the Day: Everyone Loves Foreign Trade!
Fri Mar. 1, 2013 10:54 AM PST

Conservatives Need to Leave Their Comfort Zone on Poverty, Charity, and Welfare
Fri Mar. 1, 2013 9:57 AM PST

A Whole New Use For Parks: Driving Out Sex Offenders
Fri Mar. 1, 2013 9:25 AM PST

How Republicans Learned to Love the Sequester
Fri Mar. 1, 2013 8:32 AM PST

The Sequester, Explained
Fri Mar. 1, 2013 4:06 AM PST

Justice Scalia and the Voting Rights Act
Thu Feb. 28, 2013 8:44 PM PST

VAWA Passes, the Hastert Rule Takes a Tumble
Thu Feb. 28, 2013 12:36 PM PST

Arkansas Accepts Medicaid Expansion, But Not Via Medicaid
Thu Feb. 28, 2013 11:12 AM PST

Shale Gas Fracking Will Be Around For a Long, Long Time
Thu Feb. 28, 2013 10:37 AM PST

The Chinese Bond Meme That Refuses to Die
Thu Feb. 28, 2013 9:00 AM PST

Seriously, WTF Is Up With Bob Woodward?
Thu Feb. 28, 2013 8:22 AM PST

Why Aren't Conservatives Interested in Healthcare?
Wed Feb. 27, 2013 3:40 PM PST

It Looks Like Pre-Clearance Is Doomed
Wed Feb. 27, 2013 1:08 PM PST

Skip the Rules, Let's Just Allow Smart People to Stay in the United States
Wed Feb. 27, 2013 11:16 AM PST

Maybe It's Time to Cut Back on the C-List Outrages
Wed Feb. 27, 2013 10:10 AM PST

Recession? What Recession?
Wed Feb. 27, 2013 8:46 AM PST

Presidential Non-Power
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 10:58 PM PST

It Was Eric Cantor Who Killed the Debt Ceiling Deal
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 4:59 PM PST

Today You Lost Yet Another Shred of Privacy
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 2:33 PM PST

We're 60 Percent of the Way to Simpson-Bowles!
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 11:35 AM PST

It's Time to Call a Filibuster a Filibuster
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 10:54 AM PST

Robotic Surgery and the Low End of the Learning Curve
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 9:58 AM PST

Jack Lew's Deal Explained
Tue Feb. 26, 2013 8:44 AM PST

David Brooks Has a Deal for President Obama
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 10:43 PM PST

Eat Your Nuts!
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 5:50 PM PST

Do Republicans Have Ratio-Myopia?
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 1:16 PM PST

Deficit Hawkery and DC Journalism
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 12:12 PM PST

Citi's Odd Bonus Payment to Jack Lew
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 10:40 AM PST

RAW DATA: Debt Levels of Families Approaching Retirement
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 10:23 AM PST

Things I Didn't Know, Part 9,763
Mon Feb. 25, 2013 9:01 AM PST

Charts of the Day: Doctor Pay in America and Other Countries
Sun Feb. 24, 2013 1:13 PM PST

A "Sequester" Is Not the Same Thing as a "Substitute for the Sequester"
Sat Feb. 23, 2013 11:22 PM PST

Firing Bad Teachers Has Surprisingly Meager Effects
Sat Feb. 23, 2013 10:34 PM PST

BuzzFeed and the Future of Advertising
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 5:51 PM PST

Friday Cat Blogging - 22 February 2013
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 1:02 PM PST

Quote of the Day: Defining "Politically Plausible" Down
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 12:18 PM PST

Who's Saying What About Gerrymandering?
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 11:53 AM PST

More Drones, Ever More Drones
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 11:35 AM PST

Can the President Target American Citizens on US Soil?
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 10:51 AM PST

The GOP's Benghazi Obsession Explained!
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 9:54 AM PST

Steven Brill Explains Why Hospitals Screw the Uninsured: Because They Can
Fri Feb. 22, 2013 9:07 AM PST

Obama Does Indeed Have a Proposal to Avert the Sequester
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 10:48 PM PST

There Are Always New and Inventive Ways to Deny Health Coverage to Risky Prospects
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 6:08 PM PST

Journalism and the Death of Hildy Johnson
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 3:34 PM PST

Spending Cuts Still (Much) More Popular Than Tax Increases
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 11:36 AM PST

Telling the Truth About Education—and About Ed Reform
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 10:51 AM PST

Today's Advice: The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 9:40 AM PST

How Taxpayers Subsidize America's Biggest Banks
Thu Feb. 21, 2013 9:01 AM PST

Rick Scott's Surprising U-Turn
Wed Feb. 20, 2013 4:15 PM PST

Google Knows All, Sees All, Especially if You're Stupid
Wed Feb. 20, 2013 3:39 PM PST

America's Real Criminal Element: Lead

New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.

January/February 2013 Issue

What's Going on With the Fiscal Cliff?

Why we're not really going to fall off a cliff on January 1 and everything else you need to know about the upcoming budget talks.

Mon Nov. 12, 2012 4:08 AM PST

The Tea Party Is Dead. Long Live the Tea Party.

Odds are Republicans won't get back from crazytown for a while. Will Dems take advantage?

Fri Nov. 9, 2012 4:03 AM PST

The Kids Are All Right

Students today score better on tests than you did.

September/October 2012 Issue

The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns

The GOP's 10-year campaign to gin up voter fraud hysteria—and bring back Jim Crow at the ballot box.

July/August 2012 Issue

The Quick Way to End the Vote-Fraud Wars? A National ID Card

Just two problems: Conservatives hate it. And liberals hate it.

July/August 2012 Issue

Another GOP Debate? You Betcha!

Lies, racial profiling, immigration, and more lies at the Republicans' national security debate.

Wed Nov. 23, 2011 12:06 AM PST

Scenes from the GOP's "Commander in Chief" Debate

Michele Bachmann's CIA-ACLU whopper, and other CliffsNotes from Saturday's CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate.

Sun Nov. 13, 2011 10:11 AM PST

CNBC Debate: "Oops," Perry Did It Again

Rick Perry draws a blank, and more lowlights from the latest GOP debate.

Wed Nov. 9, 2011 3:01 PM PST

GOP Debate: Perry Continues to Falter

Highlights, lowlights, and surprises of Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate.

Tue Oct. 11, 2011 12:01 PM PDT

The 1 Percent Creates Jobs…

And five other myths that must die for our economy to live.

November/December 2011 Issue

Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked

Do taxes really kill growth? Was the stimulus a joke? No, and we have the numbers to prove it.

November/December 2011 Issue

"You Don't Have a Heart"

Rick Perry defends undocumented immigrants, Herman Cain perpetuates an EPA conspiracy theory, Rick Santorum advocates abstinence in the military, and other highlights from Thursday's GOP presidential debate.

Thu Sep. 22, 2011 4:44 PM PDT

What the Union Fight is Really About: Defunding the Left

The GOP's new three-part plan to starve the Dems.

Fri Mar. 25, 2011 2:04 PM PDT

Why Screwing Unions Screws the Entire Middle Class

Plus: How much income have you given up for the top 1 percent?

March/April 2011 Issue

Invasion of the Brain-Devouring Platitudes

Five political memes that deserve to die.

November/December 2010 Issue

Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles

Memo to Obama: Bill Clinton, LBJ, and FDR know how you feel.

September/October 2010 Issue

Too Big to Jail: How Wall Street Took Over Washington

Four years after the crash, the Jamie Dimons of the world can still get away with losing billions in risky trades. Here's why.

January/February 2010 Issue

Big Ag's Climate Cowpie

Think the ag lobby—with so much to lose from global warming—might want to help pass a climate bill? Don't be silly.

November/December 2009 Issue

The Patriot's Guide to Legalization

Have you ever looked at our marijuana policy? I mean, really looked at it?

July/August 2009 Issue

Real Capitalists Nationalize

Sorry, zombie banks. The laws of the market dictate that we should own your ass.

Sun Mar. 15, 2009 10:13 PM PDT

10 Ways to Trade Up

How Obama can fix the climate, raise billions for clean tech, and send you a fat check.

March/April 2009

The Great Persuader

Like FDR and Reagan, Obama can move a crowd. But can he do what they did and move the country?

November/December 2008 Issue

If It Isn't a Global War on Terror, What Is It? And How Do We Improve It?

Mistakes were made in the war on terror, none of them new.

Thu May. 3, 2007 12:00 AM PDT

A Blogger Says: Save The MSM!

There's an intriguing paradox at the heart of the modern trend toward media consolidation, one that my great-grandfather probably would have appreciated.

March/April 2007 Issue

Kevin Drum on the latest dispatches from the political language wars

The latest dispatches from the framing wars

July/August 2006 Issue