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- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistThe Democrats claim to be the opposition party, but they seek out Republicans, hate the left of their own party, and don’t seem to care if they lose the election.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorAmerican hegemony syndrome has shifted public attention away from the critical problems facing humanity by demonizing China.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorThe West lavishes praise on Dr. Denis Mukwege for healing victims of weaponized sexual violence but protects the perpetrators, writes Ann Garrison.
- Anthony MonteiroGlaude has done a great injustice to Baldwin, turning the great Black writer and thinker into a mere liberal burned out by trauma and a sense of his fragility.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” --Herodotus