Bernie Sanders

How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.

Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.

Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.

Bernie Sanders pushed a measure through the House to require drugs funded by public research funds to be sold at a reasonable cost. The Senate shot it down.

The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.

Remember Perot?

The Vermont senator isn’t religious, but a victory in Iowa or New Hampshire would be the first ever for a Jewish presidential candidate.

The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.

Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.

Grassroots support for public banks early in the 20th century revealed the popularity of socialism-aligned economic ideas.

At its peak in the 1920s and early ’30s, the Socialist Party in Wisconsin used confrontational tactics and nonsocialists alliances to make legislative advances.

The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.