Op-Eds

By: Bernie Sanders; USA Today The time is long overdue for us to seriously combat the Type 2 diabetes and obesity epidemic in America. A good place to start would be to ban junk food ads targeted to kids. In America today we have a Type 2 diabetes epidemic. In America today we have an obesity epidemic. They are directly related, and both

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian We are living in the most difficult moment in modern history. If you feel anxious and overwhelmed about what’s going on, you’re not alone. The extraordinarily challenges we face are very real, but we can never let them become excuses for checking out of the political struggles that address these crises and will define our

By: Bernie Sanders; The New York Times There have been five wars in the last 15 years between Israel and Hamas. How do we end the current one and prevent a sixth from happening, sooner or later? How do we balance our desire to stop the fighting with the need to address the roots of the conflict? For 75 years, diplomats, well-intentioned Israelis

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian People should not die because of their income or where they were born. We must have the courage to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry Here is a simple moral proposition. No one in America, or anywhere in the world, should die or suffer unnecessarily because they cannot afford a prescription drug which, in many

‘As millions of Americans deal with the ramifications of long COVID, how sad it would be if we learned nothing from all that we have done wrong?’ Sen. Bernie Sanders writes. By: Bernie Sanders; USA Today As all of us know, the COVID-19 pandemic was the worst public health crisis in more than a century. Since the first cases four years

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian The situation in Gaza is a disaster. Congress must take action. The administration must take action. The world must take action. Today, three weeks after Hamas’s barbaric attack against civilians in Israel, which began this war, many hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in Gaza are facing catastrophe. Over the past three weeks,