US Politics

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
04 Dec 2019
This time readers talked about overcoming ingrained racism and the possibilities of a Bernie Sanders presidency. We share letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Leah Vernon’s “Unashamed”
04 Dec 2019
A coming of age story of a Black Muslim girl living in America during trying social and political times.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nolan Cabrera’s “White Guys on Campus”
04 Dec 2019
Cabrera’s book directly pushes against the notion that White racism only exists within “ignorant” White people or “rednecks” and “hillbillies.”
Vijay Prashad
How to Commit War Crimes – and Get Away With It
04 Dec 2019
Not only should war crimes charges be brought against the US and UK, but these aggressor nations’ political leaders should face imprisonment.
Zanga Chimombo
Brown Privilege in Africa
04 Dec 2019
Inadequate attention seems to have been paid to the significance of racial miscegenation (or us “in-betweeners”) in the process of domination.
Enzo Calandra
Ukrainian Roulette: The “Ukrainegate” Gamble
04 Dec 2019
Liberals have enlisted the CIA to repudiate a clearly obscene and grotesque president because they themselves are obscene and grotesque in many of the same ways.
review by Michael Steven Smith
The Trials of Julian Assange
04 Dec 2019
A new book offers a sweeping defense of the imprisoned Wikileaks publisher.
Nikhil Pal Singh
The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset
04 Dec 2019
The destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon the violent elimination of other peoples.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police
28 Nov 2019
On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful confere
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies, and college campuses.