The Vermont senator’s political ambitions are idealistic and radical. He has grandiose ideas to revolutionize government. Like all politicians, he has blind spots. His blind spot is he lacks concrete ...

Bernie Sanders has no reason to be angry. He’s done more to raise his profile in the last 18 months than he’s done in over 30 years in the House and Senate. He’s managed to drag the Democratic Party ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...