US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black People Don’t Need Bill Cosby’s Kind of “Race Man”
26 Sep 2018
Cosby represents a Black American political right wing whose views of the Black poor are just as crude and dehumanizing as their white counterparts.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Standing with Julian Assange
26 Sep 2018
Pacifica radio stations are known as havens for leftwing thought and action, but the Berkeley station and the national Pacifica board have yet to come to the defense of Wikileak’s Julian Assange.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: World War Dangers in Syria
26 Sep 2018
Israel has bombed Syria at will, apparently with Russian permission, but that may change after the downing of a Russian plane.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
What Syria Continues to Teach Us
26 Sep 2018
Leftists should turn their attention to the New Guard Fascists -- the enemies of the people at the top of the class structure and the armed body, the state, that protects the class structure.
Ramsin Canon
Death of a Torturer
26 Sep 2018
Jon Burge gleefully coerced confessions from black men to get them convicted of crimes they often hadn’t committed and keep them in cages for the rest of their lives.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Daniel Raventós’ and Julie Wark’s “Against Charity”
26 Sep 2018
Conspicuous charity is one way of making great wealth seem respectable and even blessed in religious terms.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Micol Seigel’s “Violence Work”
26 Sep 2018
The author shows why racist police brutality has survived and even grown despite every attempt to integrate, oversee, educate, and otherwise reform the police.
Glenn Daigon
A Publicly Owned Bank for LA?
26 Sep 2018
A city-owned bank could extend the credit lines of community banks and credit unions to offer loans to low-income residents and help bankroll affordable housing.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Wilson Goode Way
26 Sep 2018
“You lit the fuse, I stand accused You were the first for me But you turned me out baby (you dropped a bomb on me) Baby, you dropped a bomb on me…”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Cuban President To Speak at NYC’s Riverside Church
24 Sep 2018
On September 26 the recently elected president of Cuba will address a community forum at New York City’s historic Riverside Church.