Bernie Sanders
Could a Warren/Sanders Team-up Topple Biden?
Maybe. But it is hard to imagine Sanders endorsing Warren until and unless Warren defeats him consistently and by a significant margin in several early states.
If You Freak Out Over This Trump Fan Video, You're Playing Into His Hands
For many of the president's biggest supporters, pushing back against "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is their raison d'être.
Democrats Are Retreating on Single Payer Health Care
It’s not just obstructionist Republicans who won't buy into Medicare for All—it’s Democrats themselves.
Bernie Sanders' Plan To Save Newspapers Is Wrong on Every Level
Even as the senator calls Donald Trump a press-bullying authoritarian, he threatens press freedom in the name of preserving "independent" media.
Is Biden's 2020 Lead Over? A New Poll Says Yes…Until You Read the Fine Print
Plus: The root of Twitter toxicity, the truth about the DOJ's attack on Backpage, and more...
The 2020 Race Is Completely Unpredictable Because Politicians Are Awful
We're vastly more interested in the upcoming election than we were in 2016. We're also convinced neither party represents us. What could go wrong?
Bernie Sanders Calls for Legalizing Marijuana and Curtailing Asset Forfeiture in Sprawling Criminal Justice Plan
Sanders' plan takes aim at every part of the justice system, including typical Sanders targets like private prisons and corporate "profiteers."
Bernie Sanders Is Right That the 'Working Class' Is Shrinking. He's Wrong To Suggest That's a Bad Thing.
By nearly every measure, Americans are getting richer and richer. This should be cause for celebration, not concern.
Media Notices Bernie's Nonsense Conspiracies When They're About Media
The progressive senator's Trumpian anti-Bezos take is part of career-long history of fantasizing about evil billionaires.
The Democratic Debates Will Alienate Democratic Voters
The progressive push to the left among presidential candidates will alienate most Democrats and independents, helping Donald Trump to a second term.
Debate Democrats Sure Do Love Threatening Their Foes
Republicans aren't the only ones who want to "lock 'em up"
Beto vs. Warren Is the Trade Policy Debate Democrats Need To Have
Unlike many other policies proposed by Democratic presidential hopefuls, trade policy is something a new president can unilaterally impose.
Medicare for All Is Defining the 2020 Democratic Race
A decade after Obamacare, the Democratic Party has embraced health care radicalism.
Taxpayers Lose When the Government Gives Out 'Free' Stuff
Never before have presidential candidates offered so many giveaways.
Tonight's Democratic Debate Will Be Long on Personal Attacks and Increased Government
Most Democratic candidates are to the left not just of Americans but of their own party.
Sanders, Warren Compare Capitalists to Vampires, but Socialism Is What Really Sucks
There's a risk that if Warren and Sanders do get their way, the sucking sound will be of talent and capital fleeing America for other jurisdictions where they will be treated better.
What Bernie Sanders Gets Wrong About the Minimum Wage
Politicians can’t repeal the laws of supply and demand.
Bernie Sanders Gets a Lesson in What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean
But the campaign workers complaining about their union-negotiated salaries are being hypocritical too.
Bernie Sanders Thinks Medicare for All Could Cost $40 Trillion
The cost of single-payer would dwarf the price of Obamacare.
Be Skeptical About Bernie Sanders' Financial Transactions Tax
Nonpartisan and center-left groups are casting doubt on the Vermont senator's revenue estimates.
Socialism Is Back, and the Kids Are Loving It
How dangerous is the democratic socialist resurgence?
Some Democrats Ditch Biden After First Round of 2020 Debates
Plus: protests in Hong Kong intensify, Antifa at it again, and more...
Bernie Sanders' #CancelStudentDebt Is a Dangerous Scam
The world doesn't owe you a dream college or a dream house or a dream job.
The One Great Moment From Last Night's Democratic Debate—and the One From Tonight's
Tulsi Gabbard's defense of non-interventionism was electrifying. Tonight's fight between Biden and Sanders over capitalism and socialism will be, too.
Bernie Sanders Wants To Cancel All Student Debt and Make College Free, at a Cost of $2.2 Trillion
The Vermont senator is clearly trying to outdo his main progressive rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Watch the Media Manufacture a Dumb Story About Bernie Sanders and Sexism
No, Sanders didn't say Warren is surging just because she's a woman.
This One New Poll of Democrats Explains Why Donald Trump Will Be Reelected
Just 25 percent of Democratic voters want a candidate promising a "bold, new agenda," which is exactly what party and media elites will cram down their throats.
Apparently, Bernie Sanders Doesn't Know the Difference Between Revenue and Profit
This guy wants to run the economy?
How Socialist Are the Democrats?
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
Democrats Are Fighting Over Socialism, and the Socialists Are Winning
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
Elizabeth Warren Is Starting to Beat Bernie Sanders in the Polls
But the progressive share of the 2020 Dem field has been remarkably stable, at just 30 percent.
Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders Claims to Love 'Economic Freedom'
I do not think that means what you think it means.
Don't Believe Bernie Sanders' Claims About Child Poverty in America
New research shows that income surveys erroneously categorized some households as extremely poor actually had "net worth in the millions" of dollars.
Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter
Sanders no longer favors government takeover of "the major means of production." But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.
Booker Expresses Tepid Support for Charter Schools While Sanders Seeks To Stifle Them
Sen. Cory Booker's comments were in response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' public education plan, which targets charter schools.
Bernie Sanders Has a Strange Affinity for Strongman Daniel Ortega. He's Not the Only Democrat Who Does.
Bill de Blasio helped raise funds for the Sandinistas in New York and subscribed to the party's newspaper, Barricada, or Barricade.
The Democrats' Dumb War Against Charter Schools
The latest bad idea from Bernie Sanders is depressingly popular, sayeth the podcast crew.
All That Is Solid Dissolves Into Amazon…and That's a Good Thing
Capitalism isn't conservative when it comes to social and economic life. It provides exactly the sort of "bold, structural changes" socialists want but inevitably botch.
On Free Trade, Even Karl Marx Is Smarter Than Donald Trump
Marx “was a champion of free trade, and no friend of tariff barriers.”
Bernie Sanders' New Plan Will Make It Tougher for Poor People To Get Credit Cards
Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates. There will be unintended consequences.
Joe Biden, Rusty Weather Vane
He'll creak in the direction of the prevailing political winds eventually, for good and mostly ill. It's his greatest weakness, and main selling point.
Bernie Sanders Thinks Medicare for All Would Solve America's Health Care Problems. It Would Make Them Worse.
The nation's largest health care program faces a shortfall in less than a decade.
That Time Bernie Sanders Interviewed Some Punk-Rock Kids in a Mall
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
A New Government Report Shows Why Single Payer Would Be Really, Really Hard
Designing and implementing a government-run health plan would raise many difficult questions.
Sorry, Bernie Sanders, but Disney Doesn't Have To Apologize for Making $1.3 Billion with Avengers: Endgame
The Vermont socialist can muster a lot of emotional outrage at CEO pay, but his argument about a "moral economy" doesn't add up.
Polls Say Biden, Bernie Could Beat Trump. Should You Believe Them?
Here's six reasons why early 2020 polls are likely underestimating Trump's strengths and overestimating his opponents'
