Bernie Sanders
Coverage of Bernie Sanders, US senator for Vermont and former candidate for the Democratic 2016 presidential nomination.


A specter is haunting the Democratic party. The specter of socialism.


But when Clinton tried to come on strong, guess what happened.


Actual voters come with different background knowledge, and care about different things.


Do we need new policies, or a new approach to politics?


This is one disagreement from the Democratic debate that’s worth paying attention to.


But there’s a reason.


Sanders gets a D-minus. What about the others?
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Sanders came to Clinton’s defense.


The definition they get there is … not really applicable.


Your guide to who all five (!) candidates are — and what they need to do.


Trade, single-payer health care, and more.


He’s closed the gap on Hillary Clinton in national polling and in fundraising, but he’s clinging to the hope that he can win without going negative on her. At least for now.


The question of whether America is ready to elect its first socialist president is one of two major concerns about Sanders that Iowans raised in interviews with Vox at a half-dozen of his events this past weekend.


“I think sometimes people think my economic views are radical. You should hear what this guy is saying.”


Repealing the Cadillac tax is quickly becoming a bipartisan juggernaut in Washington.


It’s time to get radical on pharmaceutical costs.

The party’s control has looked tenuous in recent years.


The paradox there — Democratic officials swinging in line behind Clinton even as Sanders is showing strength in polling — speaks both to the skill Clinton’s demonstrated as an inside political player and the edge that gives her in the primary.


The presidential hopeful wants to fix a “broken criminal justice system.”


Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, Jeremy Corbyn is leading UK Labour, and Tom Mulcair has pushed Canada’s NDP into first place.


It’s neither new nor surprising that Correct the Record is trafficking in opposition research, but the email comes at a time when Clinton herself is making clear that she will start contrasting her agenda with Sanders’s soon.


It’s almost all a universal Medicare program that would actually save money.


Clinton’s embrace of the “moderate” label is about drawing a contrast with Bernie Sanders, sending a signal to her supporters that she’s ready to really fight for the nomination, and making sure she’s comfortable in the political skin she’s wearing.


A candidate for the politics activists wish we had.




He knows his “political revolution” needs more than just loyal Democrats.


The frontrunner is adopting some of the insurgent’s moves on campaign finance reform — a sure sign she’s looking over her shoulder.


The Washington Post’s fact checker needs to check his facts.


The campaign finance reform activist, who’s exploring his own presidential bid, argues that Sanders is “running a campaign to win, not to govern.”


Here’s why.


The other left-of-Hillary candidate lays out his agenda.


The Vermont senator represents the biggest bloc of rural liberalism around.


Can Sanders convince Democrats he can win?


Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley’s platforms, explained.


Here’s what the new poll tells us — and doesn’t tell us — about the Democratic race.


Donald Trump suggests he or his staff would physically fight off Black Lives Matter protesters.


— and 9 more things to know today.


A rough poll for Team Hillary.


Why activists are interrupting Bernie Sanders events to challenge the candidate and his supporters to keep racial justice front and center


The quiet radicalism of the Democratic tax plans.