Bernie Sanders
Coverage of Bernie Sanders, US senator for Vermont and former candidate for the Democratic 2016 presidential nomination.
“The differences between the candidates were all based on age, and it just happens that younger people are poorer on average.”
Sanders told Trump to denounce supporters’ bad behavior. Now that Sanders’s supporters are harassing a Democratic official, should he take his own advice?
Bernie Sanders may not have transcended ideological politics but instead become its accidental beneficiary
NBC News called the state for Sanders shortly after polls closed at 7:30 pm.
For five years in a row, 40 percent or more of the American public has identified as “independent.” But identifying as an independent doesn’t mean much when there are few independents with a chance of winning on the general election ballot.
Bernie Sanders’s campaign has seized on a new narrative: The superdelegates will decide the Democratic primary.
What is a “joint fundraising committee,” and why is Sanders outraged by Clinton’s?
A new poll gives Clinton a 76-point advantage over Trump among Sanders supporters.
Several new national polls have since found Clinton pulling ahead of Sanders after her string of state victories.
If flipping the superdelegates in states Sanders has won wouldn’t give him the nomination, why is he pushing for their support?
Bernie Sanders wants to transform how the Democratic Party chooses its presidential nominee. Here’s how he should do it.
We ran the numbers, and Bernie Sanders is not losing because of the closed primary that excludes independents.
The debate over open and closed primaries, explained.
Baltimore already tried having a political revolution.
Time to look to down-ballot races to make a big difference.
Poor people don’t vote. Sanders’s campaign was supposed to change that.
She called Israel’s Prime Minister an “arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative asshole,” among other things.
The very stuff that Sanders’ supporters admire makes him a risky bet.
That would have made Mitt Romney president in 2012.
But Sanders supporters probably aren’t going to stay home if Clinton gets the nomination.
Trump was a winner, of course. But independent voters lost.
Imagine if Clinton’s campaign manager were saying what Sanders’s campaign manager is saying.
“Today, 3 million people in the state of New York who are independents have lost their right to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary,” Sanders said.
Bernie Sanders is trying to persuade his voters that he’s not losing, he’s being robbed.
How often will Trump top 50 percent? And will Clinton end her losing streak?
“I’m just here to understand your optimism, and stick my fingers in it, and just roll it around in my hands, and restore myself to the person I used to be.”
I get it — history can be boring. But the laziest use of it is to make facile comparisons between then and now, this person and that.
NYC residents will wait in line for hours for a good brunch. Waiting in line to vote? Not so much.
Sanders lost the nomination when he failed to win the support of superdelegates.
It frames Sanders as the next step in the long tradition of fighting for civil rights.
Much heat, little light.
He stood up for Palestinians’ humanity.
They had a debate about not just Israel but about Palestinians — something that rarely happens.
The biggest winner: the Fight for 15.
Sanders was referring to a word Clinton used 20 years ago.
Sanders now supports repealing the decade-old law.
Clinton’s framing was a bit questionable, but the underlying point is backed by the evidence.
These are fighting words.