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- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistEven if the United States had a strong public health system, Black and brown people would be plagued by racist medical practices.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorYang’s hope that Asian-Americans fight racism by marrying themselves to American exceptionalism is nothing more than an attempt to maintain his own economic privileges.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorWhile the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats.
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistPushing workers back to work and attempting to “normalize” the economy was the growing consensus among the capitalist class, not just Trump.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residencecoronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical