Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Fight Corruption—And Perhaps Joe Biden
Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate Oath to Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a mock swearing in ceremony on Capitol Hill in 2013.Evan Vucci/AP On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) released a plan to “fight global financial corruption” and regulate Delaware-based LLCs—perhaps a sly dig at former Vice President Joe Biden, who as a senator…
The Debate Showed How Warren Is Closer to Sanders on Health Care Than the Online Left Would Have You Believe
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks in a Democratic presidential primary debate in Atlanta on November 20, 2019.John Bazemore/AP On the morning of Wednesday’s Democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren received what was surely a welcome boost: Health care activist Ady Barkan, who has devoted his life to improving American health care as he slowly dies from ALS,…
Elizabeth Warren Has a New Plan to Address White Nationalist Violence
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) campaigns in Waverly, Iowa on November 16. Jack Kurtz/ZUMA On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren released a plan for combatting white nationalist-inspired violence with a simple basic premise: Make the government take the problem seriously—maybe for the first time. Warren’s plan envisions a federal bureaucracy that makes stopping white nationalist violence a…
Presidential Candidates Wouldn’t Touch This Radical Idea to Transform Agriculture—Until Now
Mother Jones illustration; John Minchillo/AP; Getty Food and agriculture policies have been at best a fringe issues during the last few Democratic presidential primaries. Candidates tend limit their agricultural appeals to “broad value statements” rather than dive into the policy specifics “that would indicate they’ve given these issues the attention they deserve,” says Sarah Hackney,…
Appealing to Black Voters in South Carolina, Elizabeth Warren Fires Up White Liberals
Elizabeth Warren addresses a crowd at Clinton College, an HBCU in Rock Hill, S.C., on September 28, 2019.Meg Kinnard/AP Elizabeth Warren came to the South Carolina Lowcountry on Saturday and played all the standards. At a town hall in Goose Creek, about 20 miles north of Charleston, she talked about corporate greed and government decisions…
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Cut Veteran Suicides in Half
Scott Olson/Getty Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled a wide-ranging plan Tuesday to improve care for America’s veterans, active-duty service members, and their families, proposing to end discrimination toward LGBTQ, immigrant, and HIV-positive troops while substantially increasing the number of staff employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her campaign’s suite of ideas comprise Warren’s most…