US Politics

Rod Such
How US Foreign Policy Spawned Terror and Trump
05 Jun 2019
The end of the Cold War allowed the US to use its military with impunity, including support for Islamic jihadists against targeted countries.
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."
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Countering the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Offensive – Part Two
03 Jun 2019
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective. In Part Two: King Downing, Johanna Fernandez and Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Countering the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Offensive – Part One
03 Jun 2019
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective. In Part One: Ajamu Sankofa, Myaisha Hayes and Aya Saed.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Chemical Attacks in Syria
29 May 2019
The corporate media is concealing a leaked UN agency report that shows Syrian government innocence in an alleged chemical attack.
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.
Walter Johnson
To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
29 May 2019
The history of racial capitalism is a history of wages as well as whips, of factories as well as plantations, of whiteness as well as blackness, of “freedom” as well as slavery.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Russiagate, Like Count Dracula, Will Never End
29 May 2019
Are the Democrats serious? Or just mortified, like most vampires, by the light of day?
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 May 2019
This week police brutality, the art of protesting, and the anti-war movement were on your minds. You wrote on “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
29 May 2019
White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable.