US Politics

Chris Hedges
Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity
09 Nov 2018
Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Was This Really The Most Important Mid-Term Election of Our Lives? Maybe Not.
09 Nov 2018
For an occasion so momentous, not much has changed.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Midterm Elections: Corporate Democrats Versus the Monster They Empowered
08 Nov 2018
Only transformational programs, like single payer health care, can erode the coherence of the White Supremacist Bloc, and at the same time galvanize the numeric majority of the nation.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black People Need Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
If white nationalists are allowed to abolish birthright citizenship, they will immediately move to de-Americanize as many Blacks as possible, for criminal convictions or poverty.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Rage, Reading Books, and Other Necessities for the “Millennial Generation”
07 Nov 2018
Young people in the US are increasingly open to socialism and radical ideas, but less likely to study the science of revolutionary change.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.
Nina Wallace
This Isn’t the First Time White Supremacists Have Tried to Cancel Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the US a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Back to the Dark Ages
07 Nov 2018
Russiagate is an invented hysteria, a psy-op and propaganda operation that distorts the political realities of both Russia and the US.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
White Supremacists Wage Race War
06 Nov 2018
The armed White Power movement has shifted, since the Vietnam War era, from “earlier incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan to a much more coordinated war against the federal government” and Black and Je
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
06 Nov 2018
Since at least the 1950s, prison officials have used solitary confinement as a political tool against Black inmates, said Brittany Friedman, a professor of sociology at Rutgers Uni