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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!”

  3. Lou Wainwright

    Hi Kevin,

    Like others, been reading you since WM. As a experimental physicist you have always warmed my heart with your love for data (and Excel!). Please don't hesitate to start a Patreon or Substack, or just a tip jar. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be happy to contribute. It would be small compensation for what I've learned from you during the years.

    Thanks,
    Lou

  6. Rick Jean

    Congratulations on your new blog. I look forward to following your articles and the cats!
    I wish you every success Kevin.

  8. chuck simmons

    I see you have a link to Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Why not a link to The National Review and Breitbart as well? If Fox News needs to be disciplined, linking to their web site isn't going to help with that. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is full of misinformation. I don't see the usefulness in reading poorly thought through cruft.

  10. Richard Brett

    Good luck in your new endeavor. I have been reading you since you were at Washington Monthly and followed you to MoJo.
    You are one of the people I read everyday you have something posted.
    Thank you!

  14. ezdoesit

    Dear Kevin, love to you and yours. The somewhat longer list you blogged about tuned me on to Marcy Wheeler and has provided a true look at an investigative journalist. Please keep providing a couple of sentences to explain the graphs so I know what I am looking at.

  17. Michael C. Dagley

    I'm delighted you'll still be writing. I've been reading you daily since the Calpundit days, when blogs were just getting started. I've got the new blog bookmarked.

  18. Mitch Guthman

    Just to clarify: My assumption is that registration means one must provide a real name and valid email address to WordPress but, once that is done, a nom de plume can be used on the blog. That's what I'm saying should be the case.

  19. Susan Korper

    I've thoroughly enjoyed the cats, graphs, and thoughts. So glad that, though these will be fewer, I can still look forward to them.

  26. bayesian

    Yes to registration for comments and heavy application of moderation and the banhammer. Tentative agreement that Disqus is probably the best currently-available blog commenting platform; better than WordPress generic at any rate (I really liked the old SSC commenting system, but apparently that was hand-rolled).

  29. David Britt

    I have read your Mother Jones blog every day for about four years. Your essays are always thought provoking and insightful, and news and pics of Hilbert and Hopper are an uplifting conclusion to the week. My cat Amy sends her love. I wish you well in your cancer treatments and, with you, anxiously await a cure.

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