US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Support for Anti-Lynching Law is a Sham
04 Jul 2018
“The lynchers-in-blue run amuk because they are aided and abetted by the Black Misleadership Class and its Democratic elected representatives in Congress.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
04 Jul 2018
“Ocasio-Cortez deserves credit for beating a corrupt but powerful system.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Political Theater and the Immigration Crisis: A Two-Party Problem
04 Jul 2018
“No oppressed people or group in the US knows what it is like to be separated from their families, locked in cages, and murdered by the state more than Black Americans.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
When Democrats Aren’t the Least-Worst
04 Jul 2018
“The argument that anyone to the left of Donald Trump owes their vote to a Democrat has always been stupid and arrogant.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
04 Jul 2018
“American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
04 Jul 2018
“We are seeing the reemergence of a white supremacist engagement with science that has always existed, but is finding more traction within the public sphere and media.”
Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Nombuso Mathibela
The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa
04 Jul 2018
“Pay no one for land acquired illegally.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Doing Good Work
03 Jul 2018
Bet you wonderin’ how I knew, What’s fake and what’s true? I heard it through the grapevine— Or, maybe I read it online? I heard from an avid reader—