Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders may sit at different ends of the spectrum of Democratic politics, but the progressive senator from Vermont is already throwing his weight behind the incumbent’s 2024 reelection bid. “The last thing this country needs is a Donald Trump or some other right-wing demagogue who is …
Read More »Bernie Sanders' New Book 'It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism' Tops Charts on First Day
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Senator Bernie Sanders is here to affirm our ire towards capitalism’s current form in his new book, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. And it seems we …
Read More »Sanders Blasts Nikki Haley's 'Absurd' Proposal for Age-Based Competency Test for Politicians
Sen. Bernie Sanders laughed off as “absurd” Republican Nikki Haley‘s proposal to require mental competency tests for political candidates over the age of 75. The former South Carolina governor floated the idea during her presidential campaign announcement this past week, claiming that “generational change” is needed in politics. “Former ambassador …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Wants to Haul Big Pharma in Front of Congress
Bernie Sanders is living, as he puts it, in a “two-fold world.” “On the one hand, I’m trying to do what I can in a bipartisan way,” he explains in the conference room of his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon. He brandishes a paper-clipped stack of printouts in my …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Is Furious with the Restaurant Lobby
For decades, a major restaurant lobby has devoted millions of dollars to stomping out bills that would improve the lives of the industry’s workers — including attempts to raise state and federal minimum wages to $15 per hour. As it turns out, the workers who stood to gain from those …
Read More »Sanders: Sinema Is Just a 'Corporate Democrat' Who 'Sabotaged Enormously Important Legislation'
Sen. Bernie Sanders is not excited that there is another independent in the U.S. Senate. Speaking about Sen. Kyrsten Sinema‘s recent defection from the Democratic Party, Sanders seemed underwhelmed. “She’s a corporate Democrat who has… sabotaged enormously important legislation,” he said. “I don’t want to spend a whole lot of …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Sees A Democratic Party That Looks More Like Him Than Ever
“Obviously, the election on Tuesday night went a hell of a lot better than we had anticipated.” This was Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) scientific assessment of the 2022 midterms. He watched returns at home in Vermont —“I try to keep out of D.C. except when necessary,” he offers —and stayed …
Read More »Inside the Left's Last Push to Save Itself
When Summer Lee survived her Democratic primary for an open Pittsburgh-area House seat in May, her allies breathed a sigh of relief. Progressive candidates had been struggling to win Democratic primaries as the pro-Israel lobby bombarded them with millions of dollars’ worth of attack ads, eager to punish left-flank candidates …
Read More »Bernie Blasts Nike Founder: 'Democracy Is Not Billionaires Buying Elections'
PORTLAND — Bernie Sanders‘ barnstorming tour to rescue the 2022 midterms for Democrats took a spicy turn in Oregon on Thursday. The populist Vermont senator and serial Democratic presidential candidate appeared at a downtown Portland concert venue to stump for Democrat Tina Kotek, who is locked in tight race for …
Read More »The Revenge of Tim 'I Told You So' Ryan
LIMA, OH. — A typical Democrat wouldn’t be here. It’s the final stretch of his Senate race, and Tim Ryan is spending one of the campaign’s last Saturdays in Allen County, where Trump won by a mammoth 40 points two years ago. Most in his party believe the white working-class …
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