US Politics

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
US Supreme Court About To Pass A 21st Century Dred Scott Decision
18 Jan 2018
Back in 1857 the US Supreme Court, in response to the lawsuit of one Dred Scott, a slave suing for his freedom, ruled that nobody of African descent had any legal right under the US Constitution th
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Caucus’ “New Class”: Worthless, Warmongering Servants of Empire
18 Jan 2018
“The Democrats have perverted the electoral franchise of the nation’s most progressive constituency to the service of a global war machine and an all-pervasive national security state.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe
17 Jan 2018
“There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Why We Must Protect the World from the United States
17 Jan 2018
“For oppressed nations and peoples of the world, the U.S.
Daniel Zamora
The Case Against a Basic Income
17 Jan 2018
“If the payment isn’t high enough to let people to refuse work, UBI might push wages down and create more “bullshit jobs.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
17 Jan 2018
“The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Mark New Orleans’ 300th Birthday
16 Jan 2018
Dr Clyde Robertson will oversee three days of events marking three centuries of Black experience in New Orleans, beginning January 18.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia: 36 Years Behind Bars
16 Jan 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Peace Requires Social Transformation
16 Jan 2018
The peace movement “must recognize that war is an instrument of class rule, and that we have to overthrow this enemy and build and new society, on a new basis,” said Ajamu Baraka,