The US and China must unite to fight the climate crisis, not each other

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian Cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet Climate change is a global crisis and cannot be solved by any one country alone. If the United States,ย Chinaย and other industrialized countries do not come together to dramatically decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the world

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Congress Must Address Americaโ€™s Health-Care Crisis

By: Bernie Sanders; The Daily Beast Almost everyone in America understands that ourย health-careย system is broken, dysfunctional and getting worse. We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation, nearly $13,000, and an unsustainable 18.3 percent of our GDP. Yet, we remain the only major country not to guarantee health care to allโ€”leaving 85 million

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Climate change is a threat to the planet: We must address it

We can still avoid the worst impacts of climate change, save money, and make energy grid more resilient By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News Obviously, climate change is not real.ย Iโ€™ve heard, youโ€™ve heard, “expert” after “expert” telling us for years how climate change is a “fraud.”ย  Weโ€™ve heard from ourย friends at the oil companiesย who made $196 billion in profits last year

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While the world burns, fossil fuel CEOs are lining their pockets

By Bernie Sanders; MSNBC Those most responsible for this global crisis must finally be held accountable. In recent days, nearly two-thirds of the population of the United States of America has been under either a flood warning or watch or a heat advisory. Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are the highest ever recorded. Wildfires ravage parts of Greece. A typhoon

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