Political Economy

Wilfred Codrington III
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
20 Nov 2019
The nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Nov 2019
This week readers discuss Trump and Syria, Obama’s presidency, and the return of McCarthyism. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
Vijay Prashad
After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
20 Nov 2019
The main target in Bolivia is the nation’s massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car.
Jeb Sprague
Bolivian Coup Plotters Were Trained by US Military and Served as Attaches in FBI Police Programs
20 Nov 2019
Commanders of Bolivia’s military and police who helped plot the coup were educated for insurrection at the US military’s School of the Americas and FBI training programs.
Afro-descendants of Our America
Final Declaration of the Afro-descendant International Congress Tribute to the Afro-Venezuelan Cimarron “Guillermo Ribas”
20 Nov 2019
Neoliberal globalization deepens exploitation, while imposing a cultural homogenization that does not know the history of peoples, their traditions and their identity.
Nida Khan
When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?
20 Nov 2019
A brutal New Jersey police chief who routinely spouted racist slurs and threats was fingered by his own officers, but exonerated in court.
Martha Waggoner
Marker Now Calls 1898 Violence in Wilmington a “Coup,” Not a “Race Riot”
20 Nov 2019
White Democrats burned and killed their way to power in what's viewed as the only successful coup d'etat in American history.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Hybrid Warfare in Bolivia and Beyond
13 Nov 2019
The violent coup in Bolivia, like all of Washington’s regime-change and dirty tricks operations, has been aided and abetted by corporate media’s masters of euphemism.