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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No Need to Panic About the Sequester Yet
Thu Feb. 7, 2013 10:31 AM PST

Quote of the Day: Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw
Thu Feb. 7, 2013 9:40 AM PST

How's Your 401(k) Doing?
Thu Feb. 7, 2013 9:12 AM PST

Marco Rubio Agrees to Take One For the Team
Wed Feb. 6, 2013 4:39 PM PST

New Study Finds NYC's Crime Drop a Mystery. Is It?
Wed Feb. 6, 2013 1:07 PM PST

The Post Office Is Tired of Begging Congress for Attention
Wed Feb. 6, 2013 12:20 PM PST

It's a Virtual Currency! It's an Old-Fashioned Marketing Campaign! It's Both!
Wed Feb. 6, 2013 10:14 AM PST

Support for Immigration Reform is Paper Thin
Wed Feb. 6, 2013 9:14 AM PST

Who Can the President Kill?
Tue Feb. 5, 2013 9:39 PM PST

Quote of the Day: J.J. and the Star Franchises
Tue Feb. 5, 2013 7:20 PM PST

CBO's Scary Debt Chart Not Looking Very Scary These Days
Tue Feb. 5, 2013 12:38 PM PST

The NRA's Own Fanaticism May Be Its Doom
Tue Feb. 5, 2013 11:05 AM PST

Do We Exaggerate Our Political Differences?
Tue Feb. 5, 2013 10:01 AM PST

Chart of the Day: Where Girls Do Better Than Boys in Science
Tue Feb. 5, 2013 8:36 AM PST

Public Use of Public Airwaves Sounds Like a Good Idea to Me
Mon Feb. 4, 2013 7:47 PM PST

Yet More Non-Change on Tap From Republicans
Mon Feb. 4, 2013 12:47 PM PST

Richard III Stabbed in the Butt After Losing Contested Referendum of 1485
Mon Feb. 4, 2013 11:07 AM PST

Incentives and Monetary Policy
Mon Feb. 4, 2013 9:29 AM PST

Democrats Still Uneasy Over Playing Political Hardball
Mon Feb. 4, 2013 8:36 AM PST

Contraceptive Coverage is Probably Not a Freebie for Insurance Companies
Sun Feb. 3, 2013 3:14 PM PST

Quote of the Day: Can Hollywood Solve the World's Problems?
Sat Feb. 2, 2013 10:10 AM PST

Friday Cat Blogging - 1 February 2013
Fri Feb. 1, 2013 12:57 PM PST

Money Is Fungible, Contraceptive Edition
Fri Feb. 1, 2013 10:58 AM PST

The Man in the Plastic Mask
Fri Feb. 1, 2013 10:13 AM PST

Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in January
Fri Feb. 1, 2013 9:09 AM PST

Conservatives Shocked to Discover Healthcare in America is Really Expensive
Fri Feb. 1, 2013 8:43 AM PST

Building Better Kids, Vocabulary Edition
Thu Jan. 31, 2013 3:56 PM PST

Raw Data: Do You Pay Higher Taxes Than You Did 50 Years Ago?
Thu Jan. 31, 2013 12:13 PM PST

(Almost) Nobody Is Serious About the Deficit
Thu Jan. 31, 2013 11:13 AM PST

The Human Cost of Refusing to Expand Medicaid
Thu Jan. 31, 2013 9:01 AM PST

Freedom Now vs. Freedom in the Past
Thu Jan. 31, 2013 7:02 AM PST

Quote of the Day: There Are Lots of Lies About Weight Loss Out There
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 11:43 PM PST

Chart of the Decade: Corporations are Pessimistic About Future Growth
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 3:53 PM PST

Is the Conservative Fever Starting to Break?
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 1:13 PM PST

It's OK to Torture, But Not OK to Talk About Torture
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 11:28 AM PST

Lindsey Graham Continues His Temper Tantrum Over Benghazi
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 10:49 AM PST

Can Charter Schools Improve Over Time?
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 10:03 AM PST

Economic Performance in Q4 is....Hard to Get a Handle On
Wed Jan. 30, 2013 9:01 AM PST

It's True: The Fed Really Can Print All the Money It Wants To
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 10:02 PM PST

Amazon Defies Gravity For Yet Another Quarter
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 4:17 PM PST

Immigration Reform and the English Language
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 1:21 PM PST

Quote of the Day: How Not to Be a Jackass
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 12:04 PM PST

Bring Back Earmarks!
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 11:08 AM PST

Imaginary Columns, Imaginary Wars
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 10:21 AM PST

Washington DC's Final Glass Ceiling
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 9:55 AM PST

Republicans Still Hellbent on Cutting Taxes on the Rich
Tue Jan. 29, 2013 8:51 AM PST

Lead and Crime: Is Correlation Also Causation?
Mon Jan. 28, 2013 10:50 PM PST

Am I the Only Person Left Who Hates Anti-Aliasing?
Mon Jan. 28, 2013 8:00 PM PST

Hooray! Newegg Defeats a Patent Troll.
Mon Jan. 28, 2013 6:22 PM PST

Federal Spending Isn't Out of Control, But It's Not Quite Stable Either
Mon Jan. 28, 2013 11:10 AM 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