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,…
Why We Teamed Up With the Weather Channel to Bring You a Different Kind of 2020 Climate Debate
The Weather Channel Over the summer, the Democratic National Committee rejected calls to focus one of its dozen formal debates on the single issue of climate change. The outrage and disappointment from advocates and candidates was immediate: They argued that what could be considered the most important issue facing any president should not be given…
Group Withdraws from Criminal Justice Forum After Giving Award to Trump
Scott Olson/Getty Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was one of ten Democratic presidential candidates slated to attend a bipartisan forum on criminal justice reform in South Carolina when she unexpectedly backed out after the event sponsor gave a “bipartisan justice” award to President Donald Trump. In a Twitter post Friday, the former California prosecutor said she…
Kamala Harris Says She’ll Prosecute Oil Companies and Utilities for Role in Climate Crisis
Brian Cahn/ZUMA California Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris believes the next commander in chief should hold fossil fuel companies accountable for misleading the public about climate change—and she wants to use the full force of the federal government to do so. In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones last week in Dubuque,…
Do Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Really Understand Their Own Health Plans?
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in Detroit. Paul Sancya/AP After months of not clarifying where, exactly, she stood on the details of health care reform, Sen. Kamala Harris released her idea for a version of…
Kamala Harris and AOC Just Injected Environmental Justice Into the 2020 Race
Jason Ryan, Zuma Sen. Kamala Harris was the first candidate to mention the Green New Deal in the first presidential debate, when she corrected NBC moderator Chuck Todd. “I don’t even call it climate change,” she said. “It’s a climate crisis…That is why I support a Green New Deal.” And yet, of the top four…