US Politics

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Epitomizes Black Misleadership
20 Aug 2025
Mayor Bowser going along to get along with Donald Trump is unsurprising to anyone who has followed her political career. She is the Black misleader par excellence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump and Democrats Fuel the Washington DC Crime Panic
13 Aug 2025
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of…
Black Alliance For Peace
End the Colonial Occupation of Washington D.C.: The People Demand Self-Determination and Self-Governance
13 Aug 2025
Washington, D.C.'s political subjugation exposes America's democratic facade. While claiming to champion self-rule globally, the U.S. increases repression and lays siege on the residents of its own…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For a young labor leader leading by example
13 Aug 2025
"For a young labor leader leading by example" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Anatomy of a Red Scare
13 Aug 2025
As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025
08 Aug 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss a protest exposing corporate media’s collusion with the U.S. and Israeli governments in reporting genocide and how ICE is violating the law and human rights with…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
ICE Mass Deportations in New York
08 Aug 2025
We’re joined by Mario Bruzzone, Vice President of Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition. He joins us from New York City to discuss Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detentions taking…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Gaza Media Accountability Encampment
08 Aug 2025
The Gaza Media Accountability Encampment began in response to what organizers call the media’s “complicity in manufacturing consent for Israel’s crimes against humanity.” Activists are demanding an…
Jon Jeter
Stagflation Returns, Shining a Spotlight on the Federal Reserve’s War on the Working Class
06 Aug 2025
History exposes the Fed's inflation fight for what it truly is: a decades-long class war waged against working people under the guise of monetary policy.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama Colluded with the Surveillance State Against Trump
30 Jul 2025
It is true that Barack Obama used the surveillance state apparatus in an effort to undermine the first Donald Trump administration with the Russiagate fraud.