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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Boy Scouts Poised to Admit Gay Members
Fri Apr. 19, 2013 10:34 AM PDT

Immigration Reform Took a Hit Today
Fri Apr. 19, 2013 9:21 AM PDT

The Next Step in Social Media Pranking
Fri Apr. 19, 2013 8:45 AM PDT

Life Was Riskier a Century Ago Than It Is Today
Fri Apr. 19, 2013 8:33 AM PDT

Did Gun Legislation Fail Because of a Filibuster?
Thu Apr. 18, 2013 5:33 PM PDT

The Reinhart/Rogoff Episode Shows Us Why Data Openness is So Important
Thu Apr. 18, 2013 3:30 PM PDT

Obama Wants Conservatives to Know that Immigration Reform Won't Be a Rerun of 1986
Thu Apr. 18, 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Arkansas Moving Forward With Plan to Accept Medicaid Expansion
Thu Apr. 18, 2013 9:59 AM PDT

Obamacare Has Its Problems, But It's Basically On Track
Thu Apr. 18, 2013 9:28 AM PDT

A Bit of Sticker Shock Can Reduce Hospital Costs
Thu Apr. 18, 2013 8:26 AM PDT

War With Syria Just Got a Step Closer
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 9:03 PM PDT

Obama is Right: Today is Merely Round One in the Gun Fight
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 6:22 PM PDT

If You Have a Cash Cow, You Should Milk It
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 2:43 PM PDT

Should We Be Afraid of Debt Levels Above 30%?
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 12:53 PM PDT

Quote and Chart of the Day: How to Respond to the Boston Bombings
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 10:49 AM PDT

Republicans Probably Aren't as Out of Touch With America as Polls Suggest
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 9:10 AM PDT

Gun Control Bill Is Dead
Wed Apr. 17, 2013 7:53 AM PDT

Elena Kagan Writes an Awesome Dissent
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 10:07 PM PDT

New Conservative Pet Rock is Born, Dies Before Any of You Even Got a Chance to Hear About It
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 6:08 PM PDT

Yet Another Media Blackout
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 3:24 PM PDT

Quote of the Day: Excel Error Destroys the World
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 11:08 AM PDT

Public Service News Update on the Boston Marathon Bombings
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 10:19 AM PDT

Immigration Reform Bill Finally Goes Public Today
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 9:41 AM PDT

A Cheap and Easy Way to Treat Drug Overdoses
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 9:04 AM PDT

Whining About Being White About to Get New Lease on Life
Tue Apr. 16, 2013 8:08 AM PDT

Who Donated $11 Million to Proposition 30?
Mon Apr. 15, 2013 2:30 PM PDT

Day Care, the Final Frontier
Mon Apr. 15, 2013 12:13 PM PDT

A Guantanamo Hunger Striker Tells His Story
Mon Apr. 15, 2013 10:32 AM PDT

To Understand Gold, Look Across the Ocean
Mon Apr. 15, 2013 9:34 AM PDT

In the Long Run We're All Dead. In the Medium Run, We Have Things to Worry About.
Mon Apr. 15, 2013 8:58 AM PDT

It's Hard to Get a Job if You Haven't Had a Job For a Long Time
Mon Apr. 15, 2013 8:13 AM PDT

Buckraking, Obama Style
Sun Apr. 14, 2013 10:32 PM PDT

Kermit Gosnell: A Case Study in Working the Refs
Sun Apr. 14, 2013 9:52 PM PDT

Lists of Stale Words Have Become Kind of Stale. I Say We Do Away With Them.
Sun Apr. 14, 2013 6:52 PM PDT

An Update on Peak Oil
Sat Apr. 13, 2013 10:19 PM PDT

Quote of the Day: Happy Days Are Here Again
Sat Apr. 13, 2013 8:51 AM PDT

Friday Cat Blogging - 12 April 2013
Fri Apr. 12, 2013 12:03 PM PDT

Rand Paul, Fainthearted Truth Avoider
Fri Apr. 12, 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Kermit Gosnell About to Become Right-Wing's Pet Rock for April
Fri Apr. 12, 2013 10:41 AM PDT

Paper vs. E-Books: Science Answers All Your Questions
Fri Apr. 12, 2013 10:02 AM PDT

Fun and Games in the Bluegrass State
Fri Apr. 12, 2013 8:39 AM PDT

The Rock and the Hard Place of Future Economic Growth
Fri Apr. 12, 2013 8:04 AM PDT

Regulatory Arbitrage Once Again a Growth Industry
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 5:55 PM PDT

A Lesson in Pension Return Math
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 1:38 PM PDT

Update on the Manchin-Toomey Background Check Bill
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 11:04 AM PDT

Raw Data: The Deficit is Shri-i-i-i-nking
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 9:54 AM PDT

Quote of the Day: On the Usefulness of Stable Currencies
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 9:12 AM PDT

Republicans Now Officially Opposed to Confirming Any Democratic Nominees for the DC Circuit Court
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 8:42 AM PDT

Immigration Reform About to Finish First Mile of Marathon
Thu Apr. 11, 2013 7:57 AM PDT

Obama's Chained CPI Offer is a Bad Idea
Wed Apr. 10, 2013 7:46 PM PDT

Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?

Smart machines probably won't kill us all—but they'll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.

May/June 2013 Issue

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