Mitt Romney's favorability rating has been in complete free fall since early January. If the Republican primary lasts another few months, he's going to be about as popular as your average dinnertime telemarketer. Kevin Drum is a political blogger for...

As witness Kevin Drum. He's the kind of a middle-of-the-road liberal with whom I often agree. He is also literate about computers and the internet. But he's basically willing to let the government kill the goose that laid the golden egg on spec that...

In many cases, this is probably rational in a self-serving way. But in others, it probably doesn't even make sense from a purely selfish perspective. This seems to be one of them. Kevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones. For more of his...

Responding to Kevin Drum, who argues that we just haven?t tried hard enough to enforce IP law in this country, Tim Lee has an extremely useful timeline of the major efforts to crack down on piracy over the past two and a half decades: 1992: Congress passed...

Tuesday, Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum suggested that we don't have effective copyright enforcement on the Internet because we just haven't tried hard enough: Something that's good enough to provide a measure of IP protection that works for the vast...

The problem is that government structures empower those who face negative impacts from new building relative to those who receive benefits from new building. Kevin Drum follows up on the post by noting that there should be a Coasean solution to the...