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.
The Vermont senator is clearly trying to outdo his main progressive rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
No, Sanders didn't say Warren is surging just because she's a woman.
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.
A discussion about the state of the party, as presidential debate season kicks off
But the progressive share of the 2020 Dem field has been remarkably stable, at just 30 percent.
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The two Democrats' climate action plans reveal a near limitless faith in the ability of government to reorganize the economy.
The Democratic hopeful has a plan for everything. Will her plans add up?
Americans are paying more than ever for car loans. Why shouldn't the government bail those out too? For the same reason eliminating student loans would be a bad idea.
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.
Co-founder Chris Hughes' call for antitrust action is vainglorious and misguided.
The unintended consequences of helping students with the brightest futures.
Being a presidential candidate means never having to say sorry for heavy-handed proposals to limit choice and promise free stuff.
If you or your parents can afford to pay your way, you should.
The Massachusetts senator wants to spend $1.25 trillion on a plan to wipe out student loan debt and make public tuition free.
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Like Warren, I'm a fan of the Dragon Queen. But Warren overstates the character's virtues and minimizes her flaws - sometimes in ways that reveal shortcomings of Warren's own worldview.
How do you do my fellow kids?
The one potential holdout? Joe "gateway drug" Biden.
Calling for impeachment is likely a publicity stunt for the Massachusetts senator's flagging presidential campaign.
The presidential hopeful doesn't realize that government biotech crop regulation helped to create the monopoly in the first place.
Medicare for America doesn't solve the problems of government-run health care. It just creates new ones.
Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and most of the 2020 presidential field agree that tech companies have too power. But maybe they don't like the competition.
Don't give the government more power to pick winners and losers.
George Mason's Todd Zywicki says the senator and presidential hopeful has inherited the ideas of Louis Brandeis without learning the lessons of overregulation.
Nobody in the media should be supporting an elected official trying to control what speech online platforms allow.
Meanwhile, both support single-payer, which would radically cut payments to health care providers.
The Massachusetts Democrat is running for president, but sometimes it seems like she's running for America's super-CEO.
Today's Democrats want all sorts of new spending, but not the middle-class taxes to go along with it.
New proposal from Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Elizabeth Warren would stop states from using the dumbest of all reasons to keep someone out of work.
All too often, the Massachusetts senator and 2020 hopeful gets key details wrong.
The socialist wave may be more of a media-bubble thing than any sort of legitimate groundswell.
It's an inversion of the formula Trump used to get elected by scapegoating illegal immigrants. She's just targeting a different minority group.
"The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken," said Warren. "He's just the latest and most extreme symptom of what has gone wrong in America."
Using climate change to justify government-guaranteed jobs, health care, and housing.
Her big new tax plan is impractical, ineffective, and probably unconstitutional.
The former Starbucks CEO is getting dragged by liberals and progressives because he is talking about debt and spending in ways they don't like.
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The #Resistance GOP mixes tonal civility with foreign-policy hawkishness and immigration amnesia.
She's the highest-profile candidate to jump in.
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Warren is criticizing a fundamentally unfair process, but only because she wants the outcomes to be slightly different.
There's nothing wrong with a little self-mythologizing when you're young, but there comes a time to set aside childish things.
A DNA test says the senator from Massachusetts is maybe, slightly, Native American. Who cares?
No matter what California legislators or Elizabeth Warren think
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act would nearly double current federal housing spending.
The Massachusetts Democrat is grandstanding, but that doesn't mean she's wrong.
Her corporate governance proposal hides the vast cost of her plans.