Op-Eds

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian Workers at the big three carmakers earn less now in real dollars than they did 15 years ago – as their CEOs make more and more. Their fight is everyone’s fight. In the United States today, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower than

By: Bernie Sanders; The Guardian It’s not utopian thinking to imagine that, for the first time in world history, everyone could have a decent standard of living As we celebrate Labor Day, 2023 let’s take a quick look at the economy over the last few years. Never before in American history have so few owned so much and has there

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