Op-Eds

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian As we begin the year 2022, in these unprecedented times, I know it’s easy to give in to despair. We are facing a raging pandemic with seemingly no end in sight. We are rapidly moving toward oligarchy and while income and wealth inequality grows, millions struggle to obtain the basic necessities of life. We have

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News The poster child for the culture of corporate greed that we are experiencing is how Kellogg’s is currently treating its employees    will be in Battle Creek, Michigan this Friday with workers who have been on strike for over two months against Kellogg’s. Let me tell you why I’m going. In America today, we have more income and

By: Bernie Sanders & Ro Khanna; The Guardian The US must end all support for the Saudi war effort in Yemen. It is fueling the largest humanitarian crisis in the world The recent breaching of the United States’ embassy in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa by rebel forces, and the detaining of Yemeni employees of the embassy, is the latest escalation in

By: Bernie Sanders; Charleston Gazette-Mail In America today, the very rich are becoming richer while millions of working families are struggling to put food on the table or pay their bills. We now have the absurd situation in which two multi-billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 40% of Americans; the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92%;

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News It is no great surprise that not a single Republican in Congress supports this bill At a time when working families continue to struggle, poll after poll shows that the vast majority of the Americans people support the provisions in President Joe Biden‘s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act.  Some 88 percent believe we should lower the cost

By: Bernie Sanders; USA Today We live in an unprecedented moment as our country faces enormous crises, including COVID-19, climate change, attacks on democracy, income and wealth inequality, and the multidecade decline of the American middle class. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, I proposed a $6 trillion reconciliation bill that would begin to address these long-neglected problems. A