The War on Bernie Sanders
The Democratic Party elite has launched a virtually unprecedented attack against Bernie Sanders.
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How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Venezuela and US Intervention in Latin America
Bernie Sanders is repeatedly asked absurd questions by mainstream reporters about Venezuela. He should use such questions as an opportunity to talk about the long, bloody history of US intervention there and throughout Latin America.
Bernie Sanders’s “Democracy Vouchers” Proposal Can Help Democratize Our Broken Campaign Finance System
Everyone knows that rich people skew our political priorities through big-money donations to candidates. Bernie Sanders’s “democracy vouchers” program would give American voters funds to donate to the candidates of their choice — taking a step towards breaking the stranglehold of the wealthy on political giving.
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.
Bernie Sanders Can Exploit Donald Trump’s Weaknesses
Donald Trump has broken promises to leave Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone. This basic dishonesty leaves him vulnerable to attack — but only by Bernie Sanders, because Sanders has the longest and strongest record defending the exact programs Trump wants to cut.
Don’t Be a Coward, Joe Biden: Debate Bernie Sanders on Health Care
Bernie Sanders challenged Joe Biden to an hour-long debate on health care last week. But Biden still hasn’t taken him up on the offer — because he knows Bernie would trounce him.
Bernie Sanders Is the Disability Rights Candidate
It’s clear from his platform that Bernie Sanders understands that people with disabilities are confronted with daily acts of discrimination and oppression in the United States. A Sanders presidency would offer an unprecedented chance to improve the lives of disabled people across the country.
Tonight’s Democratic Debate Co-Moderator Has a Longstanding Anti-Bernie Bias
The Democratic presidential debate tonight will be moderated by PBS's Yamiche Alcindor, a journalist whose record of anti-Sanders bias is incredibly long.
Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement
The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizing efforts against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Eight Lessons From Bernie Sanders’s New Book
Bernie Sanders is angry about capitalism. You should be too. Here are eight lessons from our favorite democratic socialist’s new book.
Bernie Sanders Is Calling for a 32-Hour Workweek
American workers spend way more time on the clock than their counterparts in other rich countries. A new bill from Bernie Sanders seeks to change that, by shrinking the workweek to 32 hours with no loss in pay.
Bernie Sanders Should Embrace the Demand to Defund the Police
Defunding the police means cutting bloated local police budgets and diverting the resources to social programs. Politically, it’s right up Bernie’s alley. He should embrace it.
Bernie Sanders Gets It. We Should All Have Free Health Care During the Pandemic.
Bernie Sanders is pushing a new proposal as part of the stimulus bill that would give everyone free health care during the pandemic. His plan would get us qualitatively closer to Medicare for All — and we should all rally behind it.
The Bernie Sanders Campaign Can Help Inspire the US Working Class to Fight for Itself
Forty years of neoliberalism have beaten down and disorganized the US working class. The Bernie Sanders campaign is showing how electoral politics can be used to re-politicize working people — and organize collectively for their class interests.
Bernie Sanders Should Run for President a Third Time
Multiple reports say Bernie Sanders hasn’t ruled out another presidential campaign. He should go for it.
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.
Labor Has Only One Candidate: Bernie Sanders
At the Philadelphia Workers’ Presidential Summit, Joe Biden disappointed while Elizabeth Warren didn’t even bother to show. Only Bernie Sanders has the plan and the record to help bring the labor movement back.
Bernie Sanders Needs a Plan for the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest is close to an irreversible tipping point. By centering it in his foreign policy, Bernie Sanders can further distinguish himself while pushing his rivals.
Bernie Sanders Can Help Solve the Mass Incarceration Crisis in America
Ending the horrors of our criminal justice system won't just require proposing strong progressive criminal justice policy — it will also require building a mass movement that can end mass incarceration. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who's doing both.
Bernie Sanders Is a Critic of US Imperialism. Elizabeth Warren Is Not.
You can tell a lot about a candidate's foreign policy by the way they've responded to the right-wing coup in Bolivia. Bernie Sanders immediately called out the coup by name. Elizabeth Warren did not.