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Prominent legal scholar and political activist Larry Lessig has entered the 2016 race for the White House. Joining Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley for the Democratic nomination, L ...

Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has made health care a central plank in his platform. At a rally on July 30 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Sanders d ...

On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver made the case that residents of Washington, D.C. should be represented by a member of Congress who can vote on their behalf.  While D.C.’ ...

Independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has a plan to kill two birds with one stone.The first bird? He wants to spend $3 billion to provide solar panels for Am ...

As the 2016 election cycle continues -- spanning from the presidency to state legislatures -- the Democratic Party will have its work cut out for it as slow economic growth and declining presidential ...

It is perhaps rarer than a blue moon that both major U.S. political parties agree on something. However, on this point, at least, there is consensus between Democrats and Republicans: The food stamps ...

In a historic move, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit a federal prison, in an effort to draw national attention to the need for reform in the American criminal ju ...

In June, Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, made waves in the world of political punditry when he suggested in a letter to th ...

It’s tough to imagine a scenario in which both U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are nominated by their respective parties in the 2016 presidential race. But in a hypothetical ...

The presidential primary game is one of momentum, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is playing it surprisingly well.Starting from the position of political gadfly and surging to legitimate contender for ...