bernie sanders

Truthdig’s in-depth coverage of Bernie Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont and former presidential candidate.

Back in the USSR

Sep 26, 2008
In the late 1990s, Washington was in the throes of a deregulatory orgy. Many lampooned Rep. Bernie Sanders' opposition to the grotesquerie, and his notoriety as the only self-described socialist in Congress. Nobody guessed that in a few years our country would become the United States' Socialist Republic.

‘Democracy Now!’: Sen. Sanders, Scheer on the Bailout Boondoggle

Sep 23, 2008
On Monday morning, as the aftershocks from Wall Street's worst week in decades continued to rock the national and global economy and the Bush administration scrambled to contain the fallout with a bailout plan that could cost American taxpayers over a trillion dollars, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker joined "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman (above) to sort through the rubble and speculate about what might come next.

The Mukasey Debate

Nov 10, 2007
If you can't say it any better than Ted Kennedy, why try? We certainly won't. Here, the former Truthdigger of the Week speaks for us all as he lays out the case against Mukasey.
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San Diego Mayor Backs Gay Marriage

Sep 20, 2007
Inspired by care for his daughter and an eleventh-hour decision, as he put it, to "lead with my heart," San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders (a Republican, as a Truthdig reader pointed out) said Wednesday that he would "take a stand on equality and social justice" and come out, as it were, in favor of gay marriage.