Proposal from Sen. Sanders exposes difference between paper wealth and real resources. The problem with government spending is that you have to pay for it. New programs often poll well when you tell ...

Former President Barack Obama said the presidential runs in the 1980s by the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. set the stage for other Black leaders, including himself.

Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Monday will unveil new legislation that would raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s roughly 1,000 billionaires, aiming to roughly halve their fortunes. The plan is ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin went off on democratic socialist Bernie Sanders during a contentious confirmation hearing for President Trump’s pick to be the new surgeon general Wednesday.

The Bay Area tech executives peddling artificial intelligence as a transformative technology have a somewhat surprising believer: Bernie Sanders. The progressive, independent senator from Vermont ...

When Bernie Sanders has a bad policy to sell, he comes to California. In 2017, the socialist firebrand, fresh from his defeat in the Democratic presidential primary the year before, rallied nurses for ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the progressive from Vermont, is creating urgency around the need to pass a proposed billionaire wealth tax in California. The 84-year-old kicked off a weeklong California tour to ...

The senator from Vermont was the only elected leader at the event, which formally kicked off a health care union’s campaign to put the tax proposal on the ballot. By Laurel Rosenhall and Ryan Mac ...

LOS ANGELES -- As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall's midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party's leading ...