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.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?

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.

The left case for an independent Canada.

The region has unique political traditions tailor-made for the momentum gathering behind economic populism in the Democratic Party.

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurer whose CEO was murdered, has spent decades fighting and winning political battles to maintain the for-profit health system.