Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. He is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. Elected Mayor of Burlington, Vt., by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms. Before his 1990 election as Vermont's at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York. Read more at his website. Follow him on Twitter: @SenSanders or @BernieSanders
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Views Thursday, September 21, 2017 The World's Common Humanity and US Foreign Policy Common Dreams Editor's Note: The following are the prepared remarks for a speech delivered today, Thursday September 21, by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the 58th Green Foundation Lecture at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speech will also be live streamed here (and below) . Let me... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 04, 2017 This Labor Day the Struggle Continues Labor Day was established in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, as a concession to the labor movement days after he used federal troops to crush a strike by railroad workers which resulted in 30 deaths and some $80 million in property damages. Workers then, and workers now, were... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 22, 2017 Why Medicare-for-All Is Good for Business Despite major improvements made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), our health care system remains in crisis. Today, we have the most expensive, inefficient, and bureaucratic health care system in the world. We spend almost $10,000 per capita each year on health care, while the Canadians spend $4,644... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 07, 2017 Why Trump's So-Called Infrastructure Plan Is Good for Wall Street But Bad for America Donald Trump’s so-called infrastructure plan is a huge giveaway to Wall Street that fails to create the millions of jobs we need to modernize our roads, bridges, water systems, rail, airports, levees and dams. At a time when the American Society of Civil Engineers says we need to spend $2 trillion... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 24, 2017 Trump's Budget Is Immoral The budget introduced this week by the Trump administration constitutes nothing less than a massive transfer of wealth from working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor to the top 1%. It follows in the footsteps of the Trump-Ryan health care bill, which gives massive tax breaks to... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 29, 2017 It’s Time for a National $15 Minimum Wage In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, a basic principle of American economic life should be that if you work 40 hours or more a week, you do not live in poverty. Sadly, that is not the case today. While large corporations make record-breaking profits and top CEOs earn about 335... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 07, 2017 What Should We Do If the President Is a Liar? We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in a post written yesterday by Amber Phillips of The Washington Post . In her piece, Phillips criticizes me for lowering the state of our political discourse, because I accused the president of being a “liar.”... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 28, 2017 On Anti-Semitism, Israel, and the Palestinians The following transcript, as published by Haaretz, is the full speech given by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the J Street 2017 conference in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2017: Thank you for inviting me to address you here today. It’s a pleasure to be here with J Street, which has been such a strong... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 03, 2017 Will Trump Have the Guts to Stand Up to Drug Companies? President Trump and other Republicans have talked about the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. Recently, Trump said (rightly) that Big Pharma is “ getting away with murder .” But talk is cheap. The question is: Will Republicans really have the guts to join me and many of my colleagues in... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 09, 2017 Trump Has to Rescue Obamacare or Admit He’s a Liar It didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system. Their long-standing goal, consistent with their right-wing ideology, is to take away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, privatize Medicare... Read more |