US Politics

Anthony Monteiro
James Baldwin Still Matters and Eddie Glaude’s Book on Him Doesn’t
26 Aug 2020
Glaude has done a great injustice to Baldwin, turning the great Black writer and thinker into a mere liberal burned out by trauma and a sense of his fragility.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For my Postal Worker Brothers and Sisters
26 Aug 2020
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” --Herodotus
Paul Street
Chicago is Dystopian Police State of Racial Oppression and Class Rule
26 Aug 2020
While her cops bust heads and kettle protesters, Chicago’s Black mayor Lori Lightfoot works behind the scenes with Trump’s “Operation Legend” agents to crack down on the inner city.
Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Aug 2020
This week you discussed the Biden-Harris ticket and the country’s political prisoners.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Liat Ben-Moshe’s “Decarcerating Disability”
26 Aug 2020
Disability studies looks at disability as an identity and culture and not as a deficit to be corrected.
Hilary Malson
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
26 Aug 2020
The author examines literature that looks to sites of struggle to find the seeds of an alternative, more just future.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Obama, Harris and the Ruse of Racial Representation
26 Aug 2020
Racial liberalism attempts to shape the perspectives of communities of color through narrow ideas of national belonging, Manifest Destiny, and the American Dream.
Marjorie Cohn
Federal Judge Tackles Police Immunity Law
26 Aug 2020
The Black judge listed the injustices of “qualified immunity,” which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law breaking.
The Marshall Project
COVID-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew
26 Aug 2020
Some coronavirus deaths, especially early on, were mistakenly attributed to other causes.
Jon Jeter
A Political Comeback for the Ages: Biden's Improbable Nomination
26 Aug 2020
The same corporate media that shamelessly boosted Biden’s candidacy, even when his popularity plummeted, never question his sudden comeback at the polls.