Op-Eds

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

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian  The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is clear and foreboding. If the United States, China and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively to cut carbon emissions, the planet will face enormous and irreversible damage. The world that we will be leaving our children and future generations will be

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News For too many decades, Congress has ignored the needs of the working class For too many years the people on top have been doing phenomenally well, while working families continue to struggle. The time is long overdue for Congress to address the long-neglected needs of ordinary Americans, and not just the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors.  And that