Which Democratic Presidential Candidates Have Released Their Tax Returns?
Mother Jones illustration Has he released them this cycle? No. Does he plan to? Yes. When? Unclear. Booker has been a fiery critic of President Trump’s reluctance to share tax returns. During the first debate between Trump and Clinton in September 2016, Booker chastised the Republican nominee for “FAILING miserably” as Trump explained with “stammering…
Here’s Why Andrew Yang’s Alt-Right Supporters Think He’s the 2020 Candidate for White Nationalists
Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty Last Month, Andrew Yang’s 2020 Presidential bid careened from out of nearly nowhere onto the 2020 Democratic debate stage in a matter of days. Until March 4, the hashtag #YangGang had mostly been quietly floating around Twitter, only occasionally garnering a peak of just hundreds of daily mentions. But on…
Tim Ryan’s Long, Weird History of Palling Around With Fluoride and Vaccine Skeptics
Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire At a 2018 question-and-answer session at a summit for wellness influencers in San Diego, an attendee wanted to talk to Tim Ryan about fluoride. Ryan, a Democratic congressman from Northeast Ohio, had co-sponsored a resolution in 2015 hailing water fluoridation as a public health triumph. But the woman told Ryan that water…
Climate Activists Have Their Next Target: The DNC Debates
Joe Raedle, Getty Images No city better embodies the challenges of climate change than the setting for the first Democratic debate in June. At least 10 candidates who meet the Democratic National Committee’s set of polling and grassroots fundraising criteria will take the stage in Miami, a city that will face the threat of encroaching…
Can Jay Inslee Make Climate Change More Than a Campaign Talking Point?
Matt Chase Blink and you would have missed the most substantial reference to climate change in the three 2016 presidential debates. “I think the science is real,” Hillary Clinton affirmed in her first showdown with Donald Trump, not because she was asked about it, but because she wanted to highlight yet another contrast between them.…
Biden Cracks Consent Jokes Amid Inappropriate Touching Allegations
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former vice president Joe Biden made light of the recent string of accusations that he had inappropriately touched women during his career on Friday, sarcastically warning a crowd of union workers that he had received “permission” to hug the group’s union leader,…