US Politics

Paul Street
Shelter in Race-Class Place
15 Jul 2020
Black Americans are told to shelter in savagely unequal places where the necessities of life are scarce and Covid-19 is most lethal.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Jul 2020
This week you had the Democratic Party, Libertarianism, and Native American relations with African Americans on your minds.
Jade Bentil
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
15 Jul 2020
The books in focus explore the ways an anti-black world tries to interdict the possibilities of Black life, and how Black people resist and overcome such assaults.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s “Prison By Any Other Name”
15 Jul 2020
Increased police technology, increased training and “community policing” tend to actually expand instead of decreasing policing.
Chip Gibbons
Barr's New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
15 Jul 2020
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent.
Kathryn Bedecarré
Storming the Bastille: #BlackLivesMatter, “Allies” and the Fear of Black Revolt
15 Jul 2020
Does the belatedness and ubiquity/banality of allyship echo an anxiety about the enormous restraint that African Americans have exercised?
Mike Elk
How Black and Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes in the Digital COVID Age
15 Jul 2020
White labor leaders are failing to understand non-traditional organizing that has developed from viral social media movements.
Riva Enteen
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Dump the Democrats
15 Jul 2020
The Democrats are likely to put forward a Black woman prosecutor to legitimize the mass incarceration plague that Joe Biden helped inflict on Black America.
Look Left Staff
Ajamju Baraka on Race, Class and Protest in the United States
15 Jul 2020
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka urged vigilance against US “attempts to control the narrative” of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Lauren Smith
Truth + Justice = Green Party’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform
15 Jul 2020
With ballot access in most states and a comprehensive new program for world peace, the Green’s national ticket is ready to battle the oligarchs’ duopoly.