Elizabeth Warren Gets a C- For Her Climate Plan
Craig Lassig/ZUMA As long as I’m looking at climate plans, let’s look at a few others. Elizabeth Warren doesn’t really have a climate plan, but she does have three pieces of a climate plan buried in the 34-point “Latest Announcements” section of her website: Invest a total of $2 trillion over the next ten years.…
Jeffrey Epstein, My Very, Very Sick Pal
Mother Jones illustration; Rick Friedman/Corbis/Getty Stuart Pivar, 89 years old, is an art collector and a controversial scientist who says Jeffrey Epstein was his “best pal for decades” until the two fell out, he told me, over allegations of Epstein’s sexual misconduct. Still, when we spoke last week, Pivar was in mourning for his old…
Bernie Sanders Gets a D- for His Climate Plan
Paul Kitagaki Jr./ZUMA Bernie Sanders released his climate change plan today, and Bernie being Bernie it was naturally the biggest, leftiest, most socialist plan out there. And that was the good part. The bad part is that it’s practically designed to fail. If you’re going to propose a massive, $16 trillion plan, the first thing…
Democratic National Committee Rejects Call for Official Climate Debate
Justin Sullivan/Getty The Democratic National Committee on Thursday voted not to hold an official debate dedicated to discussing global warming, once again rejecting a longstanding demand from activists who argue that the climate crisis has gotten short shrift during the presidential primary campaign. But the DNC’s resolutions committee also voted to advance a measure that—if…
Congress Told ICE to Detain Fewer People. Instead It Keeps Adding Private Prisons.
Officers stand on the roof of and outside the Adams County Correctional Facility during a 2012 riot. ICE recently started sending asylum seekers to the prison.Lauren Wood/AP In a now familiar pattern, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started sending immigrants to another for-profit jail in the Deep South. Mother Jones has learned that the latest…
State Department Now Helping Out With Trump Campaign Smears
Keiko Hiromi/AFLO via ZUMA The New York Times reports that Rudy Giuliani is renewing his effort to have the Ukrainian government launch a criminal investigation of Joe Biden: Mr. Giuliani said he was acting on his own as a private citizen, with the knowledge and assistance of the State Department. He would not say whether…