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


The MacArthur Genius Grant recipient is no longer neutral on the topic.


This is why Bernie isn’t a “long shot.”


A breakdown of Bernie Sanders’s sweeping victory in New Hampshire.


“Both sides are being straight-up booty right now.”


Traditional politicians fell flat on their faces.


Yuuuuuuuuuuge.


They cannot believe how good Bernie Sanders is at basketball.


Hardly anyone would have predicted this a year ago.


“This guy believes in what he says. And he speaks from his heart, and you can believe in what he says,” a Sanders supporter told me.


This isn’t really about foreign policy at all.


Feeling the Bern — and the tattoo needle.


Ideology and practicality and their discontents.


Plus: Larry David is Bernie Sanders in Bern Your Enthusiasm


Sanders has gone from long-shot candidate to a real contender for the Democratic nomination for president.



How on Earth can anyone vote for that ... [fill in the blank]? This is a question some Americans ask during every presidential primary race, but this year our mutual incomprehension feels especially intense.


Hillary Clinton is the ultimate insider. Bernie Sanders is the ultimate outsider.


One big loser: Wall Street.


Getting tagged as “moderate” is good!


A very personal moment.


A great, substantive moment.


He is not correct.


The moment is here.


A good line, but exactly why Sanders’s electability makes people nervous.


Bernie Sanders’s ideas mostly poll well. There’s a catch, though.


Sanders is refusing to jump through the usual hoops in proving his foreign policy cred. And that’s fine.




“Deep down, if you’re expecting Sanders to replicate the Obama revolution, you have to be disappointed with Iowa.”


The Vermont senator got stronger support from millennials than Barack Obama did in 2008.


Democratic voters were evenly split between Sanders and Clinton.


The takeaways from Iowa.


“I think the people of Iowa have sent a very profound message to the political establishment.”


Party leaders have gotten smug and complacent.


Why the guy who finished in third is being declared a winner.

A deep dive into why, exactly, Iowa is so important.


Come for the Bernie-Sanders-as-Larry-David hilarity, stay for the great takedown of Donald Trump’s sexism.


It’s time for the Washington elite to wake up and listen to what these voters are responding to.

There’s never been anything audacious about hope.


And 71% of households with private insurance would pay more.

