US Politics

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Michael Parenti: The War on Drugs Is a Cover for Imperialism and the CIA’s Own Drug Dealing
04 Feb 2026
Michael Parenti's legacy is clarity. He taught that U.S. policies like the drug war are successful strategies for maintaining power and profit.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Minnesota 9 — now say their names: pastor, lawyer, journalists and resistance leaders
04 Feb 2026
"Minnesota 9 — now say their names: pastor, lawyer, journalists and resistance leaders" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 30, 2026
30 Jan 2026
In this week’s segment, we talk about human rights and citizenship and the Trump administration's persecution of Haitian immigrants. We begin with a discussion of the need to protect the 14th…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Protecting the 14th Amendment, Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection
30 Jan 2026
Donald Trump's executive order challenging birthright citizenship also endangers the 14th Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection. DaMareo Cooper is co-executive director of Popular…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
ICE Exposes Democratic Party Irrelevance
28 Jan 2026
The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them their marching orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on their agenda. They will not address the ICE…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: The Palmer Raids, Labor Research Association, 1948
28 Jan 2026
“We forget easily in America. We have forgotten the story of the Palmer Raids.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For an ICU VA Nurse
28 Jan 2026
"For an ICU VA Nurse" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Austin Cole
Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, and the Obfuscation of the Land Question in the U.S.
28 Jan 2026
The grassroots resistance against data centers is about more than zoning and community benefit agreements. It is the latest front in America’s war against the people over land, sovereignty, and who…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real, And It Obfuscates the Requisite Question of Self-Determination in the Heart of U.S. Empire
28 Jan 2026
When political energy is channeled into opposing an individual, that energy is diverted from the work of building the popular power needed to challenge the empire he represents.
Julia Wright
The Photos of a Five Year Old ICE Terror Doesn't Want Us to See
28 Jan 2026
The arrest of a five-year-old captured public attention and ignited a prisoner revolt inside a U.S. ICE detention center. Powerful imagery is a useful tool for the people, but dangerous in the hands…