The Latest Breaking News from Bernie Sanders

North Carolina primary becomes an early test for Democrats

Rematch of 2022 Democratic primary features Rep. Valerie Foushee vs. Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam.

Roll Call · Feb 27

Democrats urge dropping plan to double gas exports as US energy prices soar

‘Policies are not putting America first,’ letter says to energy secretary as Trump’s repeated pledges to slash utility bills

The Guardian - US · Feb 26

Three words from Bernie Sanders send MAGA senator into tailspin during heated surgeon general hearing

Veteran leftist infuriates Markwayne Mullin by mocking his long-winded address about the importance of scientific inquiry during confirmation hearing for prospective surgeon-general

The Independent UK · Feb 26

‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution

After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems

The Guardian - US · Feb 21

AI's populist moment

AI is emerging as a stand-in for kitchen-table concerns like paychecks, power bills and the future of the economy.

Axios · Feb 20

‘Enough is enough’: Bernie Sanders reminds you that billionaires, not immigrants, are ruining your life

Time to break out the guillotine?

We Got This Covered · Feb 19

Bernie Sanders rails against billionaire ‘greed’ amid California tax battle

In a fiery speech in Los Angeles, the Vermont senator criticizes ‘grotesque’ levels of economic inequality

The Guardian - AU · Feb 19

How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives

Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s election a generation later as the nation’s first – and so far only – African American president.

The Conversation · Feb 18

‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning

In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right, says Oliver Eagleton, managing editor of Phenomenal World

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

‘All-time high’ number of Americans believe Democrats are ‘too liberal’, poll says

The number of conservative Democrats has more than halved since the 1990s, as support for left-leaning Democrats surges

The Independent UK · Feb 13