‘Daily Show’: Bernie Sanders, No Chaser

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2011 Yes, Wednesday night's "Daily Show" skewering of the Trump vs. Obama birtherversy was funny. You can watch it here. We'd rather focus on a more substantial segment from that show, featuring straight-shooting Sen. Bernie Sanders. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New Data Show Extent of Fed’s Free Money Programs

Staff / Truthdig Dec 2, 2010 Thanks to Bernie Sanders and the new financial regulation passed by Congress, we’re learning more about the Federal Reserve’s $33 trillion bailout of Wall Street in 2008 It turns out the Fed lent money (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama and the Progressive Paradox

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 30, 2010 A couple of hours before President Obama offered a boffo revival of his 2008 campaign persona during a boisterous rally at the University of Wisconsin, Sen. Bernie Sanders was analyzing why the president was in a political pickle in the first place. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Senate Gives the Go-Ahead for Fed Lending Probe

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2010 When big financial institutions got themselves into a serious pickle in the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve was there with beaucoup bucks in loans to prop them up. On Tuesday, the Senate voted unanimously to launch an inquiry into the Fed's lending practices during the financial crisis. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sanders Lets Fly at GOP Senators

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2009 Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, was far from pleased with certain of his Republican colleagues Wednesday when his attempt to add a single-payer amendment to the Senate's health care reform legislation was met with stonewalling tactics from his GOP peers. Here, he lets it rip, slamming what he calls their bid "to bring the U.S. government to a halt." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hi Ho, American Capitalism

Staff / Truthdig Oct 3, 2009 What's wrong with the American economic system? That's what "Capitalism: A Love Story" auteur Michael Moore wants to know, and Sen. Bernie Sanders is on hand to answer him in his latest installment of Brave New Films' "Senator Sanders Unfiltered" series. (Hint: It has something to do with "an unfettered, cowboy-type capitalism" that stems largely from the Reagan era.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sen. Sanders Unfiltered: Wall Street Off the Rails

Staff / Truthdig Aug 11, 2009 In this installment of Brave New Films' "Senator Sanders Unfiltered," the independent federal legislator from Vermont points out what's becoming hard to dispute or ignore, however much other members of Congress might do both: Wall Street, along with the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, practically runs Washington. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bernie Sanders Wants Answers, Writes Legislation to Get Them

Staff / Truthdig Mar 4, 2009 Fed chief Ben Bernanke may be able to dole out trillions in the blink of an eye, but on Tuesday he ran headlong into Congress' only independent democratic socialist. Sen. Bernie Sanders demanded to know where all the Fed's money was going. Bernanke said "no." Sanders fired back by introducing a bill that would require such information to be posted to the Fed's Web site. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lieberman Spanked by Power-Mad Democrats

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2008 All right, so we're being a bit facetious with the headline here, but seriously, Sen. Joe Lieberman's future vis-à-vis his former base at the Democratic Party is a tad uncertain at this time, to say the least. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Back in the USSR

David Sirota / Truthdig Sep 26, 2008 In the late 1990s, Washington was in the throes of a deregulatory orgy. Many lampooned Rep. Bernie Sanders' opposition to the grotesquerie, and his notoriety as the only self-described socialist in Congress. Nobody guessed that in a few years our country would become the United States' Socialist Republic. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Democracy Now!’: Sen. Sanders, Scheer on the Bailout Boondoggle

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2008 On Monday morning, as the aftershocks from Wall Street's worst week in decades continued to rock the national and global economy and the Bush administration scrambled to contain the fallout with a bailout plan that could cost American taxpayers over a trillion dollars, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Robert Scheer and Dean Baker joined "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman (above) to sort through the rubble and speculate about what might come next. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Mukasey Debate

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2007 If you can't say it any better than Ted Kennedy, why try? We certainly won't. Here, the former Truthdigger of the Week speaks for us all as he lays out the case against Mukasey. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )