Political Economy

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
DACA Joins the Mad Rush to War
25 Jan 2018
“Measured in military dollars, the Democratic leadership is more warlike than the Trump administration.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Robert Mercer Rules
24 Jan 2018
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Centrist Politics Are Ruling Class Politics, not Martin Luther King’s
24 Jan 2018
“Democrats have been a reliable source of fake progressivism and real imperial policy.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Women’s March on the Pentagon to Confront the Bipartisan War Machine? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
24 Jan 2018
“Since the Dems took control of the House in 2007, the antiwar movement has been pitiful.”
Ken Morgan
Revisiting Black Nationalism and the National Question
24 Jan 2018
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.”
Jemima Pierre
Haitian Detainees are Captive Capital for Private Prison Corporation
24 Jan 2018
“When they cannot make more money out of us, then they deport us quickly.”
Alan Wald
Race and the Logic of Capital
24 Jan 2018
“Solidarity is built less by rhetoric than by “first showing up.”
Angola 3 News
Will California’s Governor Block Parole for Soledad Brother John Clutchette?
24 Jan 2018
“The law has been used to perpetuate an injustice in Mr. Clutchette’s case.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Caucus’ “New Class”: Worthless, Warmongering Servants of Empire
18 Jan 2018
“The Democrats have perverted the electoral franchise of the nation’s most progressive constituency to the service of a global war machine and an all-pervasive national security state.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe
17 Jan 2018
“There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later.”