Bernie Sanders
Coverage of Bernie Sanders, US senator for Vermont and former candidate for the Democratic 2016 presidential nomination.
You can disagree with “Bernie or Bust,” but why they still oppose Hillary Clinton is pretty straightforward.
“This isn’t theory for us. It’s reality,” says Pastor Ray Shawn McKinnon on why so few black Bernie supporters are “Bernie or Bust.”
An emotional, complex, and nuanced case for a movement caricatured as composed of impudent youth.
The fingerprints of corporate cash are everywhere at the Democratic convention.
Politico is reporting that Stein has joined around 1,000 people in a demonstration outside the DNC.
America has its first female major party presidential nominee.
“There’s no polite way to depart from the status quo,” says Rep. Keith Ellison, one of Sanders key congressional allies.
Can Sanders remain a hero of the far left despite endorsing Hillary Clinton?
“We lost.”
Big wins on the minimum wage, environmental regulation, marijuana legalization, and the war on drugs.
“Our credibility as a movement will be damaged by booing, turning of backs, walking out or other similar displays.”
A day supposedly dedicated to party unity is not going so well.
The WikiLeaks email revelations are not a good look for the DNC, and the party knows it.
In his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, Sanders made clear the Democratic Party is the best hope for the political revolution’s future.
Sanders is clearly right: He’s proven anything but a “fringe” candidate in the Democratic primary.
The end of Sanders’s movement marks the beginning of the debate over what it meant.
An endorsement and a unified party are a no-brainer.
The platforms have no actual teeth. But they’re a surprisingly great predictor of how the party will behave in power.
Big changes on the minimum wage, environmental regulation, marijuana legalization, and the war on drugs.
Fights remain, but Sanders’s top policy aide is celebrating some wins over the party’s platform.
Why debates over the party’s platform on the minimum wage, carbon taxes, and Wall Street regulation might matter.
“We need to start engaging at the local and state level in an unprecedented way.”
“Devastating.” “Horrific.”
Only 36 percent of Americans think Sanders should throw in the towel — compared with 48 percent who want him to keep fighting.
Polling suggests Sanders’s die-hards will be receptive to the message of top Democrats, including Obama.
“I look forward to meeting with [Clinton] in the near future to see how we can work together to defeat Donald Trump.”
Dave Hopkins of Boston College doesn’t buy into the conventional wisdom about Sanders.
In local races, incumbents and establishment frontrunners just keep winning.
Key congressional backers of Sanders are signaling the end will come before the Democratic convention.
After a bitter and sometimes acrimonious primary, supporters of both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton can hopefully agree on this.
Do Bernie Sanders’s supporters have a point when they say the media has dismissed his candidacy from the beginning?
At least three polls have recently shown Sanders cutting Clinton’s lead to just 2 points.
Bernie Sanders isn’t just winning the youth vote — he’s crushing it.
It always seemed too good to be true.
“I don’t believe the Democratic Party when it comes to issues of racial justice, of prison reform.”
The face-off America needs might finally happen.
Sanders has announced his choices for the committee that will help write the Democratic Party’s platform.
West represents a black intellectual critique of Hillary Clinton — and of a middle-class black establishment that’s chosen comfort over change.
The biggest news outlets have published more negative stories about Hillary Clinton than any other presidential candidate, one analysis suggests.
Bernie Sanders’s sweeping “political revolution” certainly seems to be trained on awfully minor targets recently.