Kamala Harris Releases 15 Years of Tax Returns
Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) released 15 years of her tax returns on Sunday morning, the latest in a steady trickle of Democratic presidential candidates to make the financial disclosure. According to her returns, Harris and her husband lawyer Douglas Emhoff made nearly $1.9 million together in 2018. Harris reported an income of…
Beto O’Rourke’s Vote to Lift the Oil Export Ban Looms Over His Climate Record
Now, as the United States is poised to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s No. 1 oil and gas exporter, his campaign has echoed that defense. In a lengthy statement to HuffPost, Chris Evans, a spokesman for O’Rourke’s presidential campaign, said former congressman believed the vote would ensure “the resources we consume—even as we work…
Activists Couldn’t Get Facebook to Tackle Its Discrimination Problem—Until the Russia Scandal Hit
Mother Jones illustration On April 10, 2018, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did something he had managed to avoid in his 14 years at the helm of the tech giant he had built: He testified before Congress. His company had been battered in the preceding months, first by revelations that Russia had used the…
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…