Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
[Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the email stuff… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told,… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that? — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and then got… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves... — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image