US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
There’s Nothing "Transformative" About Bernie Sanders (He’s Just Not Hillary)
18 Feb 2016
Bernie Sanders’ domestic policies more clearly match Black America’s left-leaning politics – but they will still reject him in favor of Hillary Clinton, who Blacks think has a better chance against…
Shane Burley
Portland Tenants United Leads a New Call for Organizing Against Evictions and Displacement
10 Feb 2016
by Shane Burley When renters band together, they can stop gentrification in its tracks, say tenants union advocates in Portland, Oregon. “Just as workers can have a union in their workplaces, tenants…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Problem of Bernie Sanders and the “Left”
03 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bernie Sander’s near-tie with Hillary Clinton in Iowa is fanning the fantasies of those who never cease to disbelieve in transforming the…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Clinton, Petraeus, Snowden and Manning: The Tail of the Two Americas
03 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The U.S. government does not hesitate to imprison those who leak its secrets – unless they are Hillary Clinton or some other Big Shot. “What is…
Atlantic City Residents to Lose Their Water – and What’s Left of Their Right to Vote
20 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christy “must have reasoned that nobody important would stand in the way of whatever he wanted to do to…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Swan Song for a War and Austerity President (Who is Also Black)
14 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This year’s State of the Union Address was a kind of swan song for Barack Obama, his last before “retiring” to three presidential libraries and tens of millions in…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote -- And How We Can Un-Block It
17 Dec 2015
We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws in more than a dozen states is a project Democrats share…
Dyson's “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape
10 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon You'd think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Slutty Professor Strikes Again!
09 Dec 2015
Slutty Professor Strikes Again! by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Ronald Reagan once called the presidencey "the role of a lifetime." The current occupant of the White House has proven…
Youth Leads the Struggle in Chicago
02 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan…