His Housing for All plan includes a commission to study and grant relief to victims of fraud and abuse in the aftermath of the foreclosure crisis.
Bernie Sanders
Posted inWorking in America
Sanders Is Trying to Have It Both Ways on Union Health Care
He claims that Medicare for All will be comprehensive with no duplicative insurance. But he promises unions that they can have something extra.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Public Option Might Be Journalism’s Last Best Hope
Democratic candidates are returning en masse to Great Society–era policies, which may also hold the key to rescuing the Fourth Estate.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What the Socialists Just Did—and Why
Dissecting DSA’s battles to define its role in American politics
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bernie Sanders Visits the Heart of America’s Homelessness Crisis
At Skid Row in Los Angeles, Sanders witnesses the callous neglect of human beings—and hope for combating the problem.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Over 100 Academics Endorse Sanders’s Student Debt Cancellation Plan
The economists and professors say that debt relief can improve and stabilize the U.S. economy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bernie, Son of FDR
Sanders casts his socialism as an updated continuation of the New Deal.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Warren Overtake Sanders?
The race for the left lane in the Democratic Party looks like it’s changing.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Socialism Rears Its Ugly Head
But waving the Hammer and Sickle at Democrats doesn’t cut it anymore.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer’s Surprising Collaboration — and Weird Proposal — on Stock Buybacks
Sanders and Schumer target buybacks as a way to leak corporate profits to investors. But their solution is an unnecessary Rube Goldberg contraption.