US Politics

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Wall of Lies
07 Feb 2019
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
HR 1 Cuts Green Party Campaign Funding, Sics Homeland Security and Political Police on the Left
07 Feb 2019
HR 1 is the premiere legislative initiative of Democrats in the 116th Congress.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
“How I Lost by Hillary Clinton,” a Book Review
06 Feb 2019
Rich and manipulative people like Hillary Clinton and her DNC cohorts were defeated by their own emails. “You can expect her to run for president once again.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Venezuela and NATO, the Democratic Party is the “Assistance” Not the “Resistance” to Empire
06 Feb 2019
Black, working and poor people can expect no relief from Democrats, who will continue to divert the nation’s resources to foreign wars and coups.
Eric Blanc
Cory Booker Hates Public Schools
06 Feb 2019
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Feb 2019
This week the reader discussion was on the limits of electoral democracy in the United States and the accommodation of diversity in American imperialism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Ben Norton
Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy
06 Feb 2019
Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.
Telesur
Tasers Claimed 49 Lives in 2018 Through Police Violence
06 Feb 2019
There have been a total of at least 1,081 deaths after the use of Tasers since the weapon began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s.