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

The 2016 election is looking increasingly like a refutation of one of the more provocative and influential political science theories of the past 30 years: that on or about November 9, 1989, History, with a capital H, ended.

American Arabs are not monolithic. They’re not even all Muslim.


Public services should be for everyone.




The Democratic Party is at a turning point.


The 2016 campaign has neglected this big issue.


A lot of things need to go in his favor.


What color was it?


A huge upset for Bernie Sanders in Michigan; Sony might fire music producer Dr. Luke (and why that matters); the lawsuit that could kill Gawker.


A little misleading, and a little true.


“Clearly, there was a breakdown in the models we used.”


None of the seven official Democratic debates have asked about abortion, but the latest Fox News town hall did.


#NeverTrump? More like #AlwaysTrump.


The win suggests Sanders also has a real shot at many of the delegate-rich states — like Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin — that lie ahead.


Sanders’s campaign has gambled that Michigan will be ripe ground for his economic message — but the state has actually done quite well recently.


That seems impressive, but the number of delegates awarded make it sound a little less so.


It wasn’t a typical debate.


An ugly moment in the Democratic debate.


“I’m very proud of being Jewish. And being Jewish is so much of what I am.”


Sanders suggested white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto and to be poor.”


Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off in Milwaukee on Thursday, February 11.


A stark divide.


“Excuse me, I’m talking.”


Bernie is true to his brand of democratic socialism.


The first Democratic presidential debate is Tuesday, October 13 at 8:30 pm Eastern. It will take place at the Wynn Las Vegas casino hotel, and be streamed on CNN.


And what the fight over “electability” can tell us about the Democratic primary.


After Super Tuesday, the Democratic nomination is now Hillary Clinton’s to lose.


Race and economics help explain how Sanders won one of the country’s most conservative states while losing one of its most liberal.


He’s won (most of) the states he needed to win on Super Tuesday.


A win that proves he hasn’t lost his momentum.




Democrats who want an “experienced” candidate would do just fine picking Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton.

Scandinavian countries are more equal and more functional than the US.


Can Bernie Sanders win outside the Northeast?


This isn’t looking good for Sanders’s campaign.


Hillary Clinton took away one of Sanders’s strongest arguments on Saturday — that he’s the candidate who has the most working-class support.


One candidate’s pollster openly admits the campaign expects to lose by a lot.


The important question raised by Bernie versus the wonks.



