Op-Eds

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Common Dreams The U.S. Constitution is crystal clear: there can be no offensive use of military force — against Iran or any other country — without an explicit authorization from Congress. No such authorization exists, and any U.S. involvement would therefore be illegal. In the year 2025, one might have hoped that the global community would be

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; The Guardian We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change that I have held public meetings all over Vermont and in many parts of the country. At these gatherings I almost always ask a very simple question: is our healthcare system broken? And the answer

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Fox News Look at what’s happening all around us and see if ‘efficiency’ is the major goal of these billionaires All of us owe Donald Trump and Elon Musk a deep debt of gratitude.  For a very long time the big money interests, under Democratic and Republican administrations, have dominated our government and our politics. They did

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Newsweek Everyone wants to live a long, happy, and productive life. If you’re working class in America, that’s tough to do. Last month, I asked Americans to share their stories about how financial stress is affecting their lives. The response was overwhelming, heartbreaking, and infuriating. Working people are dying years before they should. Stress kills. Put

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; The Guardian What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated I will be doing town meetings in Omaha, Nebraska, this Friday night and Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday morning. Further, in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events from coast to coast.

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Josh Hawley; Fox News Americans are drowning in a record-breaking $1.17 trillion in credit card debt In his “Divine Comedy,” Italian poet Dante Alighieri reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for people who charged usurious interest rates. Seven hundred years later, “usury” doesn’t come up much in common parlance, but the problem