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Welcome to my new blog. After four years at the Washington Monthly and 12 years at Mother Jones, I've decided to go full circle and return to blogging at my own site. This gives me a little more freedom to post when I want and a little more freedom to say what I want without worrying about how it might reflect on others.

Aside from that, things will be pretty much the same as always. I mostly blog about policy—I call it "policy lite"—but also about anything else that catches my eye. As always, there are lots of charts and, every Friday, plenty of cats. So settle in and enjoy.

196 thoughts on “Welcome!”

    1. rick jones

      Standalone in that it is yet another comment system, this time WordPress'? Looks that way. But it does appear to allow replies.

          1. Mitch Guthman

            If you can find a way to log in with your WordPress reader it should be possible to edit. I use my WordPress account on a couple of other sites and the comments are more or less editable.

            My problem is that even though I'm now following this blog on my WordPress reader, half the time it sends me to my own blog and the other half of the time it says my account doesn't exist. I think Kevin needs to add some functionality for comments from his dashboard.

  13. Rhino

    Longtime lurker here. I've follow you since Calpundit. I think I originally found you from a link by Tom Tommorow and you were the second blog I followed. Congrats on the next chapter.

  14. fred lapides

    I am an old guy, nearly 92, and so what I say expresses an old guy's fears:
    I can appreciate your wanting to open your own shop--the essence of the capitalist dream. However, with your site, and the now hundreds of substack go-it-aloners, I suspect that what is missing midst this grand canyon of commenting pundits is some good solid editorial controls to ensure factual accuracy on articles. As the list of independent writers grows, so too, the competition for readers, something not the same in MSM organs.

    I wish you the best.

  18. Jim_C

    Kevin,

    I am so glad you decided to move, rather than retire. I would miss your posts.

    I see a blogroll. Excellent!! It is a feature I’ve missed.

    Will the daily Covid-19 post follow you or stay at MJ?

    Good luck.

    Jim

  19. WaryTale

    My comment riseth not to the level of commentary...
    Our citizens addicted to debating what's true,
    Is it time to establish a new cabinet Secretary
    Of Data? Just think: Oh that could be You!

    [Ministry of Truth = Bad. Now, what do we do?]

    1. Ken Rhodes

      Something that's missing in this new blog: A button to up-check a comment to indicate appreciation and.or concurrence.

      So Wary, please consider I have up-checked your comment.

      And BTW, Kevin, it's kind of inconvenient to have to fill in my name and email address for each comment I submit. (I suppose I have overlooked a Register function and a Sign In function. I shall go back and see if I'm just terminally dense.)

      1. Ken Rhodes

        Another comment, related to my comment:

        The way it looks right now, with no Login function and no password, I think anybody can spoof anybody else's name. I don't like that. I may write many asinine comments, but I prefer not to be saddled with the asininities of other folks signing my name.

  20. Aaron

    Welcome! I've already added this site to my Feedly, where you have been since it Google Reader and Political Animal and even farther back to Calpundit when I was a college student. I'm very glad to see you continue blogging and hope you are able to find the right pace. Cheers!

  22. Jim_C

    So, do I get an account here (and how do I do that) or at WordPress? Is there a way to be sure no one else posts using my username?

    Thanks

    Jim

  25. Richard Sommer

    The day I read that Kevin was leaving Mother Jones - well that was the worst news I saw all day. I'm glad to see he will continue here.

  26. marcel proust

    Given that you just type in your email address when you comment why the log in button?* Are there extra special top-secret bennies for logging in? And if so, how do you register?

    *The log in button should not be all the way at the bottom of the page.

    1. Steve_OH

      I think the login button is only for site "owners," not common folk. At least that's the way it works on another WordPress site for which I am an owner (of sorts).

  27. Haddock Branzini

    Embedded comments are going to make maintenance of the site a beast over time. Better to hand off the functionality to Disqus than deal with the bloated database size and vector for spam and other attacks.

  29. DB

    I've been reading you since CalPundit days, so I'm pleased that you're carrying on. I never commented on Mother Jones, because even though I'm a subscriber I could never get it to work right, but this system, obviously, works.

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