Kevin Drum

Audit Notes: WSJ’s Deceptive Edits, NYT Glows for Bharara, Cohan Glowers

By Ryan Chittum May 13, 2011 at 07:50 PM

Jon Chait and Kevin Drum team up for a nifty demolition of that Wall Street Journal editorial page deception I... More

Audit Notes: Nobody’s Guilty In SEC Deals, Swipe Fees, Euromess

By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2011 at 03:09 PM

The New York Times makes a good catch on the disparities in a Justice Department settlement with Wachovia and an... More

Audit Notes: Wall Street’s Trib Bust, Pro-Union U.S., Authoritarian Wal-Mart

By Ryan Chittum Jun 22, 2011 at 08:30 PM

David Carr looks at James O'Shea's new book on Sam Zell's Tribune Company fiasco and zooms in on O'Shea's reporting... More

Leave appearance out of it

Because she isn’t currently a candidate, Obama’s remarks didn’t necessarily hurt Kamala Harris. But if she had been running, a new study says that they would have hurt her

By Jennifer Vanasco Apr 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM

I wasn't planning to write about the dust-up after Obama called California's Kamala Harris the country's "best-looking attorney general." After... More

Medicare and the Deficit

The commission noise aside, it’s all that matters

By Felix Salmon Nov 11, 2010 at 11:40 AM

The most clear-eyed view of the silliness of the deficit commission report comes from Kevin Drum, who points out that... More

Memo to Kevin Drum

Mediocre stories about Social Security are not okay

By Trudy Lieberman May 3, 2012 at 04:55 PM

Dear Kevin: I have not written to you before, but I do know your work from the health reform debate.... More

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