The Democratic field is crowded with C-listers. It's time for some to drop out | Kate Aronoff

Relative nobodies like John Delaney and John Hickenlooper have taken up more airtime than the climate crisis during the debates. We deserve better

Millions of Americans don't know who John Delaney or John Hickenlooper are. They probably wouldn't be able to correctly identify them in a photo. And yet, at the Democratic debate on Tuesday night, Delaney got to speak for nearly 11 minutes, and John Hickenlooper for almost nine. In one night, those two relatively unknown men combined got more airtime than the climate crisis has in all three debates thus far. And that's despite the fact that, if we don't do anything to address rising temperatures now, we will see several US cities underwater in the coming decades.

So here's my pitch: if these and other candidates without a shot in hell at winning actually cared about the future of this country, they would drop out.