US Politics

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Epitomizes Black Misleadership
20 Aug 2025
Mayor Bowser going along to get along with Donald Trump is unsurprising to anyone who has followed her political career. She is the Black misleader par excellence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump and Democrats Fuel the Washington DC Crime Panic
13 Aug 2025
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of…
Black Alliance For Peace
End the Colonial Occupation of Washington D.C.: The People Demand Self-Determination and Self-Governance
13 Aug 2025
Washington, D.C.'s political subjugation exposes America's democratic facade. While claiming to champion self-rule globally, the U.S. increases repression and lays siege on the residents of its own…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For a young labor leader leading by example
13 Aug 2025
"For a young labor leader leading by example" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Anatomy of a Red Scare
13 Aug 2025
As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.
Jon Jeter
Stagflation Returns, Shining a Spotlight on the Federal Reserve’s War on the Working Class
06 Aug 2025
History exposes the Fed's inflation fight for what it truly is: a decades-long class war waged against working people under the guise of monetary policy.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama Colluded with the Surveillance State Against Trump
30 Jul 2025
It is true that Barack Obama used the surveillance state apparatus in an effort to undermine the first Donald Trump administration with the Russiagate fraud.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Killing the Kennedy Center softly for the Reich?
30 Jul 2025
"Killing the Kennedy Center softly for the Reich?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Bad Hombre Defense?
23 Jul 2025
"The Bad Hombre Defense?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Not by Trump but Obama and Democrats
23 Jul 2025
The real collusion wasn’t between Trump and Putin; it was between intelligence elites and a Democratic establishment.