Minnesota

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
ICE Exposes Democratic Party Irrelevance
28 Jan 2026
The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them their marching orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on their agenda. They will not address the ICE…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For an ICU VA Nurse
28 Jan 2026
"For an ICU VA Nurse" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Julia Wright
The Photos of a Five Year Old ICE Terror Doesn't Want Us to See
28 Jan 2026
The arrest of a five-year-old captured public attention and ignited a prisoner revolt inside a U.S. ICE detention center. Powerful imagery is a useful tool for the people, but dangerous in the hands…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Renee Good, Keith Porter and the Normalization of Police Violence
14 Jan 2026
Law enforcement in the United States are responsible for more than 1,100 deaths in a typical year. This level of bloodshed goes unnoted even when police killings are deemed newsworthy and attract…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
We Are All Somalia
10 Dec 2025
Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful criminals who are deserving of punishment and scorn.…
Jon Jeter
As the State’s Complexion Darkens, Minnesota’s Liberalism Wanes
18 Jun 2025
Minnesota’s progressive myth shatters as its racial gaps in income, education, and housing eclipse even Deep South states, and right wing whites turn to violence against their own people.