US Politics

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Amazon Concedes $15 Floor Wage, Bernie Sanders Plays Minor Role in Significant Victory
05 Oct 2018
Amazon’s announcement last week that it would boost the wages of its lowest paid workers to $15 an hour in time for this year’s holiday rush, was not a generous gift from its owner Jeff Bezos, repo
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democratic Corporate Fascism vs the Trump Kind
04 Oct 2018
Modern American corporate fascism is rooted in multinational corporate structures and wedded to a concept of racial and cultural “diversity” that (they hope) is compatible with corporate dictatorsh
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Hey Mister Tangerine Man
03 Oct 2018
They got Jel-Low Puddin’ Man— one less backwards Taliban treating women like beasts— Packs of predator priests next they’re comin’ for you—
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Syria and the S-300s: Re-Centering the People in the Global Struggles for Power
03 Oct 2018
Protecting Russian interests in Syria and the Mid-East was and is the driving force for Russian military and diplomatic activity, nothing else!
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Kavanaugh Farce
03 Oct 2018
Now that it’s too late to prevent a total rightwing takeover of the Supreme Court, the Democrats pretend to be the party of opposition.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Historic Precedent or Footnote? Laura Wells Debates Barbara Lee
03 Oct 2018
Barbara Lee has done what no other Democratic congressional candidate has ever done—agreed to a one-on-one debate with a Green.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Theory 101: Class Struggle in the Age of US Imperial Decline
03 Oct 2018
The focus on separate “identities” has led to numerous academic theories and non-profit career opportunities but no real power for oppressed and working-class people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kehinde Andrews’ “Back to Black”
03 Oct 2018
This book shows that the liberal road to reform was a dead end; it is time to commit to revolution.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kathleen Belew’s “Bring the War Home”
03 Oct 2018
The white power movement drew recruits, many of them women, from every region of the country and all socio-economic sectors of white America.
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Trump, Racism and Immigration: an Interview With Margaret Kimberley
03 Oct 2018
BAR’s senior columnist: “If everything you know about Russia is from the New York Times and the Washington Post, you don’t know anything about Russia.”