Sanders grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest son of a Polish immigrant. He started out his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont and then held a seat in the House of ...

Bernie Sanders on Thursday apologized to women who have shared experiences of harassment by male supervisors while working on his 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The Vermont independent said on ...

March 5, 2016 - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won Nebraska’s Democratic presidential caucus, defeating Hillary Clinton. This is the second time Clinton lost the Nebraska caucus. In 2008, Barack Obama ...

Two debates held in recent days, one among Republicans and the other among Democrats, revealed a stark reality of the 2016 presidential campaign: We are in a time of complicated questions in search of ...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday. Though the 78-year-old did not emerge as the Democratic nominee in either of his two presidential bids, his campaigns have ...

Though he said the word “ending” nearly a dozen times, Senator Sanders did not end his campaign for the presidency during a special announcement to supporters on Thursday evening. But sitting alone in ...

Before 2015, the term “democratic socialism” was foreign to the American political lexicon. It was certainly not cool among ...

On May 26, 2015, Senator Bernie Sanders officially launched his first campaign for president before a crowd of thousands on ...

The reports of tensions come as progressives look to a post-Bernie Sanders future.

Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Monday, encouraging his progressive supporters to rally behind the presumptive Democratic nominee in an urgent bid to defeat President ...

In 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson attempted to win the Democratic nomination for president. He lost both times, to Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, but succeeded in cementing a lasting set of ...