I spend all my days, or most of my days around people between the ages of 18 and 26, not just here at Berkeley, but I visit at the University of Chicago, and at various other places around the country, and I’ve never seen a generation this progressive and activist, since the ’60s

Trump is focusing his campaign on the angers of white working people who have been losing economic ground for years, and who are easy prey for demagogues seeking to build their own power

Bernie Sanders is the most qualified candidate to create the political system we should have, because he’s leading a political movement for change.

Shkreli may be a rotten apple. But hedge funds and the pharmaceutical industry are two rotten systems that are costing Americans a bundle

It’s possible to have a flexible economy and also provide workers some minimal level of security. A decent society requires no less

Half the money to finance the 2016 election so far has come from just 158 families

They don’t oppose government per se. Rather, they see government as the vehicle for big corporations and Wall Street to exert their power in ways that hurt the little guy

For more than six decades after 1933, Glass-Steagall worked exactly as it was intended to. During that long interval few banks failed and no financial panic endangered the banking system

Dynamic scoring would make it easier to enact tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, because the tax cuts wouldn’t look as if they increased the budget deficit

The reason Democrats have pulled their punches with the financial sector for years is because it’s hard to punch the hand that feeds you