Political Economy

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Trump and Pelosi Lovefest
17 Jul 2019
Trump and Pelosi are birds of a feather when it comes to beating up on dissident women of color.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Five Myths of American Exceptionalism Killing the Left Part 1.
17 Jul 2019
Adherence to American exceptionalism kills the left and then takes it to the Democratic Party-run graveyard for burial.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Gang of Four
17 Jul 2019
I say, YAY, I say, MORE, I say, GO, Gang of Four!
Gyasi Lake
There’s No Such Thing as a “Progressive Prosecutor” in a System Designed to Criminalize Blackness
17 Jul 2019
Incremental changes are treated as if they are touchdowns when they are just moving the chains.
Lizzie Presser
Why Are So Many Black Families Losing Their Land?
17 Jul 2019
The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave their plot of land in North Carolina.
Shea Howell
Detroit Targeted for Massive Facial Surveillance
17 Jul 2019
A Black elected police commissioner was manhandled at a public meeting for protesting a draconian facial recognition scheme.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Jul 2019
This week we discuss Bernie Sanders candidacy, the Socialism 2019 conference, and Russiagate. You will find your comments on “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ron Ridenour’s “The Russian Peace Threat”
17 Jul 2019
Seventy years of US savagery in the world prove the need for solidarity with all movements against repression, inequality, war and capitalism,
Stansfield Smith
Bernie Sanders’ Present Fight against Corporate Rule vs. the Bernie of 1989
17 Jul 2019
Sanders used to preach that “we can’t tail after the Democrats,” but now he’s selling the pipedream of reforming the Democratic Party.
Ken Morgan
The U.S. Economy Still Puts Blacks at the Bottom of the Barrel
17 Jul 2019
If this is a thriving economy, then the next crash is going to obliterate Black people, entirely.