Op-Eds

By: Bernie Sanders; Jacobin In an address to union workers ahead of Labor Day, Bernie Sanders says that unprecedented corporate greed demands an unprecedented worker response. We reprint his remarks here. On August 27 in Philadelphia, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addressed an audience of two thousand union activists at the UNI Global Union World Congress. UNI Global is an international

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, China and other industrialized countries do not come together to dramatically decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the world

By: Bernie Sanders; The Daily Beast Almost everyone in America understands that our health-care 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 all—leaving 85 million

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. I’ve heard, you’ve heard, “expert” after “expert” telling us for years how climate change is a “fraud.”  We’ve heard from our friends at the oil companies who made $196 billion in profits last year

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

By Bernie Sanders; The Guardian As a nation, the time is long overdue for fundamental changes to our national priorities. The US Senate is now debating an $886bn defense authorization bill. Unless there are major changes to the bill, I intend to vote against it. Here’s why. As everyone knows, our country faces enormous crises. As a result of climate