US Politics

Black Alliance For Peace
The Resignation of Biden’s Special Envoy to Haiti Once Again Exposes the White Supremacist Foundations of U.S. Foreign Policy, No Matter Which Party Is In Charge
26 Sep 2021
The blatant racism of Biden's Haiti policies—in both controlling Haiti’s governance and the illegal and inhuman abuses of Haitian asylum seekers—was too much even for his special envo
Sarah Turberville, Chris Rickerd
Abusing Migrants While on Horseback Fits With the Border Patrol's Long History of Brutality
26 Sep 2021
Such cruelty warrants a congressional investigation—not only into the specific actions in Del Rio but, more importantly, into systemic problems within Border Patrol that allow such abusive cond
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Covid Funds Spent on Police and Prisons
22 Sep 2021
Systemic racism and weak movement politics allow states and cities to spend relief funds on police and jails.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Schmo Munchkin v. Ida
22 Sep 2021
Schmo Munchkin v. Ida Ida: Hello, Schmo… Munchkin:
Netfa Freeman
Biden’s DOJ Sleight of Hand on Police Reform
22 Sep 2021
DOJ "reforms" are a smoke screen covering up systemic complicity with law enforcement.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia
15 Sep 2021
Memories of the last 20 years are rarely focused on increased state violence and repression in the post-9/11 world. The damage has largely been forgotten.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Austerity and Mass Murder: An American Pastime
15 Sep 2021
The race to the bottom is an imperative of austerity, which is foundational to the history of state violence in the U.S.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance
15 Sep 2021
Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Gorgon Staring at You
15 Sep 2021
U.S. wars in foreign countries always come home.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats, Abortion and Phony Politics
08 Sep 2021
Democratic party leadership are as uninterested in fighting for abortion rights as they are in addressing anything else their members need and want.