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Marjorie Cohn
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
10 Jul 2019
Harris favored criminalizing truancy, raising cash bail fees and keeping prisoners locked up for cheap labor.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Democratic Party’s Fatal Contradiction
03 Jul 2019
The Democrats have packaged their 2020 presidential primary like a blockbuster Broadway theatrical production, with a huge cast of performers, plenty of showtunes and a chorus line that dances arou
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden and the Shame of the Black Misleaders
26 Jun 2019
The misleaders are tacitly admitting that black people can expect little to be done in their favor even if the Democrats manage to win.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
2020 Democratic Party Debates Encircle Sanders with Wall Street’s Political Dogs
26 Jun 2019
Wall Street wants Harris, Buttigieg, and Biden to dominate the floor and shut down Sanders.
Paul Street
Mayor Pete’s White House Race Trips on Race
26 Jun 2019
The gay young presidential candidate’s cops killed a Black father on Father’s Day, but Butiggieg snubbed the community vigil.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump
05 Jun 2019
If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Elizabeth Warren Wants Green Bombs, not a Green New Deal
05 Jun 2019
Warren prides herself in fighting for a kinder capitalism but has no problem with a nasty, murderous imperialism.
Patrick Walker
Climate Terrorism: The Politically Farsighted Way to Impeach Trump
05 Jun 2019
By focusing on climate terrorism, Democrats could show voters that they care more about the common good than their self-serving Russiagate narrative.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Joe Biden, Prince of Prisons
04 Jun 2019
"Biden was a sponsor and in many cases the primary architect of every significant federal bill that exacerbated mass incarceration."
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Corporate Media Cold Warriors Smear Sanders and Gabbard as Traitors to Empire
29 May 2019
Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard unsettle the oligarchs because their policy positions are dangerously desired yet unobtainable under the current arrangement of society.