Republicans finally want to talk about health care. Thatโ€™s good โ€” but their ideas are absurd.

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Boston Globe For months, the American people have watched the Republican Party run away from their own unpopular health care agenda. But now โ€” finally โ€” they have been forced to admit what the rest of us have known all along: Doubling Affordable Care Act premiums for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million Americans off

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Congress just made our healthcare system worse โ€” Hereโ€™s the fix

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders;ย Fox News After 43 days, the government shutdown has ended. After President Donald Trump illegally and cruelly cut off SNAP benefits to desperate Americans, including 16 million children, 42 million frightened people will again be able to put food on their tables. Federal employees will get paid. And, hopefully, airline schedules will return to normal.ย  But, hereโ€™s

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AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders;ย Fox News Everybody agrees that artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are going to have a transformative impact on our country and the world. There are strong disagreements, however, as to what those impacts will be โ€” who will benefit from them and who will be hurt. One thing is for sure. This is an enormously important issue

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The American System is Badly Broken

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders;ย The Guardian Letโ€™s take a deep breath and, for one moment, forget about Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, the UN, Charlie Kirk, Gaza, a government shutdown and the other crises that we face. Letโ€™s talk instead about the reality which the corporately-controlled media and the corporately-controlled political system donโ€™t talk about very much. What we are witnessing right

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It Is Genocide

Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages. Israel, as any other country, had a right to defend itself from Hamas. But, over the last two years, Israel has not simply defended itself against Hamas. Instead, it has waged an all-out war against the

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RFK Jr.โ€™s Dangerous Designs for Public Health

Sen. Bernie Sanders; Wall Street Journal Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. writes that โ€œWeโ€™re Restoring Public Trust in the CDCโ€ (op-ed, Sept. 3). That would be laughable if it werenโ€™t dangerously wrong. In my view, Mr. Kennedy is waging a war against science and the well-being of the American people. Letโ€™s not forget. At the height of the Covid pandemic, we were

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