US Politics

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
2020 Elections: Its Militarism and the Military Budget Stupid!
15 May 2019
The Trump military budget is more than a third higher than five years ago, while cutting non-defense programs by 9 percent– but the corporate media ignore the issue and Democratic candidates a
Cornel West and Deborah Chasman
Cornel West Discusses Barriers to Black Truth-Telling in America
15 May 2019
Establishment publishing houses are a lot more “colorful” than they used to be, but that doesn’t mean they care about the poor and imprisoned, says the nation’s most prominent Black intellectual.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 May 2019
This week the hypocrisy of Democratic Party presidential candidates and the reality behind the nonprofit industrial complex were topics on your minds. Readers wrote about “
Calvin Warren
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 3)
15 May 2019
Mbembe invites us to rethink the foundation of thought upon which the world is predicated.
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
In Baltimore, Police Officers Are the Bad Guys With Guns
15 May 2019
Plainclothes police officers are waging war on citizens. “They often planted guns and resold narcotics.”
Jon Jeter
Adrift in a Decolonizing World, the White Settler Makes a Final, Furious Stand
15 May 2019
From Ramallah to Rio, Capetown to Caracas, Green Bay to Gaza, the sun is setting on the colonial racial order.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?
15 May 2019
Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists?
Jeff Bryant
Charter School Support Slipping Among Democrats
15 May 2019
Barack Obama was the nation’s most pro-charter president, but much of his party has grown leery of them.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Talking Marxism But Serving Capitalism in South Africa
14 May 2019
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Women Loom Large in African Secessionist Movements
14 May 2019
In Cameroon and the former Spanish Sahara, “women are using traditional ideas about power to drives these secessionist movements,” said Jacqueline Bethel-Mougoue, a professor