Kevin Drum

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do…

— Kevin Drum

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do…

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[Donald trump] was steamed about [Hillary] Clinton's suggestion that he might not be as rich as he says. So he ditched the…

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The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but…

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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

The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still…

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I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate…

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We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole…

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I hate the idea that we might lose even a few talented future leaders because they fell for Bernie Sanders's spiel and…

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If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that…

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You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

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Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

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Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

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We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?

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The reporting is fake. Look, look...You know what it is? Here's the thing. The public isn't - you know, they read newspapers,…

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Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

— Kevin Drum

In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

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I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

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Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign…

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The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're…

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[Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.

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The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who…

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In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because…

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I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over…

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I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going…

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