Op-Eds

By: Sen. Bernie Sanders; CNN The wealthiest people in this country have never had it so good. While income and wealth inequality in the United States is soaring, more than 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, we have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty among major countries on Earth, and more than 650,000 people are homeless. According to a study by the Rand Corporation, since 1975,

By: Bernie Sanders; Foreign Affairs  Replacing Greed, Militarism, and Hypocrisy With Solidarity, Diplomacy, and Human Rights A sad fact about the politics of Washington is that some of the most important issues facing the United States and the world are rarely debated in a serious manner. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of foreign policy. For many

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News Working people used to have pensions when they retired. Now almost 45% of older Americans have no savings As chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, I recently held a hearing on the retirement crisis in America.   At that hearing, I had the opportunity to hear from Sara Schambers, a fourth-generation

By: Bernie Sanders; The Atlantic Congress should curb war profiteering with a new Truman Committee. America’s national priorities are badly misplaced. Our country spends, with almost no debate, nearly $1 trillion a year on the military while at the same time ignoring massive problems at home. We apparently have unlimited amounts of money for nuclear weapons, fighter planes, bombs, and

By: Bernie Sanders; Fox News One of my top priorities is to substantially reduce the price of prescription drugs in America It is no great secret that millions of Americans feel that Congress is more interested in protecting large corporations than looking out for ordinary people. That is never clearer than when we talk about our broken health care system, and the

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian The United States must make clear to Netanyahu that we will not provide another dollar to support his inhumane, illegal war Many of us are watching with horror the severe humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues in the House of Representatives and US Senate are choosing to ignore this reality