Sen. Bernie Sanders Is Running for President. Here’s a Sampling of His Greatest Hits

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) officially announced today that’s he’s running for president. The self-described socialist faces long odds in the Democratic primary, but chances are good that he’ll at least force a discussion on issues dear to liberals. Here are some highlights of the best of Mother Jones coverage of Sanders:

Sanders visited our office earlier this month to discuss income inequality, trade, and his motivations for running for prez.
“Why don’t we make Election Day a holiday?” Sanders asks. Yes, why?
Sanders goes on Bill Moyers to perfectly predict big money’s domination of the 2014 elections.
Sanders asks the NSA whether it is spying on members of Congress. The NSA won’t say.
Sanders’ list of America’s top 10 tax avoiders.
The greatest hits from Filibernie, Sanders’ eight-and-a-half hour filibuster in protest of the 2010 extension of tax cuts for the rich.
Sanders lambastes Obama for giving loan guarantees to the nuclear power industry.
Sanders has some ideas for reforming Wall Street.
“A Socialist in the Millionaire’s Club“: a 2006 Mother Jones interview with Sanders, shortly after he was elected to the Senate.
During a 1998 Congressional hearing, Sanders excoriates Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin for supporting General Suharto, “a cruel, authoritarian dictator whose family is worth between $40 and $50 billion.”
And then there’s this Sanders blurb from a November 1989 Mother Jones roundup of promising third parties:

The Progressive Coalition obviously never went national in the way Sanders had envisioned. But in 1991, a year after he was elected to Congress, he founded something more enduring: the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Since then, Sanders’ view of third parties has evolved: “No matter what I do,” he told Mother Jones last month, “I will not play the role of a spoiler who ends up helping to elect a right-wing Republican.”