Yes, Bernie Sanders Has the Best Shot Against Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders doesn't just have high favorables among young people — independent voters love him too. And that's why he would have a better chance than anyone else in November.
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What Mayor Brandon Johnson Can Learn From Mayor Bernie Sanders
When he became Burlington’s mayor in 1981, Bernie Sanders was a socialist outsider who had to face down a hostile political establishment. His successful mayoralty may contain lessons for Chicago’s new progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson.
Bernie Sanders Definitely Should Not Have Campaigned Like Elizabeth Warren
In the wake of the end of Bernie Sanders's campaign, many pundits are asking: Should Bernie have campaigned like Elizabeth Warren? The answer is no, since she lost very badly.
Bernie Sanders Is Rallying to Build Working-Class Power
Bernie Sanders is holding rallies in cities across the country — not to stump for candidates but to broadcast ordinary people’s struggles, build enthusiasm for the labor movement, and promote pride among the working class. That’s exactly what we need.
A Decade of Bernie Sanders’s Transformation of America
It’s been ten years since Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run — a run that transformed the Left and our sense of the possible in this country. It should be remembered as one of the most consequential electoral campaigns in US history.
Bernie Sanders: Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
In a recent interview, Bernie Sanders was forced to defend his position that billionaires shouldn’t exist to an exasperated Chris Wallace. Sanders is absolutely right: a humane system wouldn’t produce such dramatic disparities in the distribution of resources.
Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Was Trying to Save American Democracy
Bernie Sanders’s campaign was caricatured as irrationally angry, even Trumpian. In reality, it gave voice to the voiceless, raised people’s sense of what’s possible through collective action, and refused to accept that exploitation and the fear of economic devastation should be the lot of millions.
Bernie Sanders Would Make a Very Good Secretary of Labor
Bernie Sanders is reportedly making a bid to be the secretary of labor in a potential Biden administration. That’s good news. The labor secretary has broad latitude to raise worker standards — and Bernie could use the bully pulpit to declare that all workers will have the full backing of the federal government if they organize on the job.
Bernie Sanders Lost, But He Advanced the Class Struggle
Critics declaring Bernie Sanders’s campaigns a total failure have discounted a basic socialist proposition: our metric for his success should not just be his winning or losing, but the extent to which the working-class movement has advanced.
With the UAW Strike, Bernie Sanders’s Political Revolution Is Continuing on the Shop Floor
Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns galvanized a new generation to fight against inequality and corporate power. The spirit of that fight is now finding expression in the workplace — as seen with the massive strike the United Auto Workers just started today.
Bernie Sanders: A Mass Movement Can Beat Health CEO Greed
We spoke to Bernie Sanders about alleged health insurance CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the crisis of for-profit health care in America, why only a mass movement can win Medicare for All, and how to fight the growing share of working-class votes for the Right.
Bernie Sanders to UAW Rally: “We Refuse to Live in an Oligarchy”
Bernie Sanders headlined a United Auto Workers rally in Detroit on the first day of the strike, declaring that “every worker, white collar, blue collar, in between, has got to stand with the UAW in your struggle for justice.” We reprint his remarks in full.
Democratic Insiders Are Right to Be Afraid of Bernie Sanders
Party elites and big donors aren’t afraid of Bernie Sanders losing to Trump. They’re afraid he’ll win.
How Mayor Bernie Sanders Orchestrated a Political Revolution
Elected mayor of Vermont’s biggest city, Bernie Sanders found himself stymied by an obstructionist local establishment at every turn — until he and the movement behind him started fighting back and winning.
David Sirota: The Tyranny of Decorum Hurt Bernie Sanders’s 2020 Prospects
David Sirota, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, argues that a key mistake of the campaign was Sanders’s refusal to more forcefully articulate the contrasts between his record and Joe Biden’s.
Noam Chomsky: “Bernie Sanders Has Inspired a Mass Popular Movement”
Noam Chomsky says that Bernie Sanders is vilified by the media because he’s trying to shape US politics in the interest of working people. We shouldn’t expect anything else.
Bernie Sanders: “Today We Are Seeing Workers Stand Up and Fight Back”
In an address to union workers ahead of Labor Day, Bernie Sanders says that unprecedented corporate greed demands an unprecedented worker response. We reprint his remarks here.
To the Boomers We Love: Join Us Young People in the Movement Behind Bernie Sanders
Polls show that many older Americans don’t support Bernie Sanders. But we don’t want to write those boomers off — we want to warmly invite them to join our movement that’s fighting for dignified lives for us, for them, and for their children and grandchildren.
Why Bernie Sanders’s History of Racial Justice Activism Matters
Shaun King on the importance of Bernie Sanders's lifelong dedication to anti-racist struggle, from the 1960s to today.
Bernie Sanders Is Right to Be Incensed at the Democrats
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders tore into the Democratic Party’s “big money interests and well-paid consultants” who abandoned working-class voters. Bernie was stating an obvious truth — one that Democratic leaders seem hell-bent on ignoring.