Political Economy

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Shocking Death of Rwandan Gospel Singer and Dissident Kizito Mihigo
19 Feb 2020
I would like to say that President Kagame has finally gone too far, that the powerful industrial nations will finally stop running cover for his crimes, but that would greatly surprise me.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin: Dem Wanna be Lakked by Mike
19 Feb 2020
$elections comin’ an’ Massa Mike playin’ Negroz fo’ chumps— Tolt Dem he’d hab dey pockets lookin’ lak dey got de mumps!
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Black America and the Presidents
19 Feb 2020
Every single US president—regardless of party—actively upheld white supremacy in the US.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Feb 2020
This week readers discussed the Democratic Party’s theater and the new arms race in outer space.
Ashlie Sandoval
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
19 Feb 2020
An educator helps students navigate books that reveal Blackness as historicity, slavery as both obscured and ever-present, and the violence of race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shana Redmond’s “Everything Man”
19 Feb 2020
It takes many voices from a world of disciplines to tell the story of Paul Robeson, the supreme talent ad intellect that the US State attempted to erase from history.
Global Information Network
Nigeria Jailing Journalists
19 Feb 2020
Stories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Embassy Defenders Win Mistrial, But the Struggle Continues
19 Feb 2020
The jury felt they weren’t hearing the whole story, due to the suppression of nearly every relevant fact in the case.
Solomon Comissiong
Indoctrination Nation: The Institutionalization of US Imperialism
19 Feb 2020
Crimes that earned their perpetrators capital sentences at Nuremberg are celebrated as the sacred patrimony of the United States.
Jeff Bryant
How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
19 Feb 2020
Public school students are being “trained” for jobs at specific corporations rather than educated for a lifetime in a changing world.