Loping through the streets of Burlington, Vermont, in the late 1970s, Bernard Sanders was hard to miss and impossible to forget: the mop of thinning, windswept hair, the intense stare behind ...
Dan Chiasson was 9 years old in 1981, when Bernie Sanders won his first race for mayor of Burlington. He was 17 when Sanders left city hall in 1989 and 19 when Sanders was sworn in as Vermont’s lone U ...
Dan Chiasson’s new book is “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician” (Penguin 2026). Cover art by Alison Bechdel. Photo by Lisa Abitbol Young Bernie Sanders arrived in Vermont in ...
In a 1988 video that surfaced during his 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, then-mayor of Burlington, Vermont, stands in a tweed blazer, holding a microphone, near the food court of the ...