Bernie Sanders

In a number of recent posts, Ron Paul has shared a series of JFK quotes with his considerable social media following. Taken together in their greater context, Paul appears to be making an interesting point: suggesting that JFK was,…
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' meteoric rise to progressive mass appeal has recently been imperiled by his wife's previous tenure as president of the now-defunct Burlington College. Long before Sanders was packing social justice…
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By Sarah Skwire When I went to graduate school to study the 16th and 17th centuries, I was often asked how that ancient history could possibly be relevant to life in the 21st century. As I’ve had more than one occasion to note,…
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By Luis Pablo de la Horra Despite Bernie Sanders’ efforts to identify Denmark with some sort of democratic socialist utopia where a highly interventionist government regulates all the nooks and crannies of the economy, it is well…
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On the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Bernie Sanders made his endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “Any objective observer will conclude that — based on her ideas and her leadership…
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EspañolIn an interview with Univisión released this week, Bernie Sanders struggled to defend his socialist ideas in response to questions about Latin America. When the interviewer León Krauze asked him about the failures of…
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EspañolThere's no doubt Bernie Sanders has been the Social Democrat's hero in the United States and Puerto Rico over the last few months. With a little more than two weeks left in the Democratic presidential primaries in the…
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EspañolSocialist senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visited Puerto Rico this week, making a stop at the island to campaign for the upcoming Democratic presidential primaries on June 5, where 60 Puerto Rican…
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EspañolThe intellectual folly of centralized economic planning and governmental economic interventionism presumably died with the fall of communism. Yet, the left in the United States continues its lovemaking with the long-dead idea…
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EspañolIt’s easy to get depressed about politics, apocalyptic even. In the United States, for example, post-constitutional, cult-of-personality trends echo the decadence of imperial Rome. While the bloody escapades of Caligula, Nero,…
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EspañolAfter losing against Hillary Clinton in the Super Tuesday on April 26, Bernie Sanders said he would have to start laying off hundreds of employees working for his campaign, according to The New York Times. "We had a great…
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By Lawrence J. McQuillan Bernie Sanders is proud to be a socialist. In July 2015, he told The Nation: “Do they think I’m afraid of the word? I’m not afraid of the word.” As far back as 1989, Sanders said: “I think there has been…
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