The Barras Report Blog

Virginia’s voters will pick the state’s next governor in November. The choice couldn’t be clearer, and neither could the national...

A violent insurrection engulfed the U.S. Capitol just six months ago. One United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died and...

Sen. Ted Cruz is a shameless liar. And he isn’t even a very good one. Witness his latest dishonest defense of Georgia’s new voter...

Kristen Clarke is a brilliant lawyer and Americans would be lucky to have her working for us. President Joe Biden has nominated Clarke to...

THE murder trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has begun, ten months after George Floyd died in the street with Chauvin’s...

What does it say about our country when we don’t have time to absorb the impact of one mass shooting before news of the next one comes...

On Jan. 29, Barbara and David Ehrlich parked their cars and headed towards the Howard University clinic. It was a long walk for the...

It is time for a maximum push for a new minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has not budged for more than a decade. The cost of living...

The 2020 elections taught us that our democracy is both strong and fragile. This is the time to shore it up with the For the People Act...

Donald Trump’s defenders are shameless. And that makes them dangerous. It has only been a month since a mob enraged by Trump’s lies about...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day feels complicated this year. We have new reasons to celebrate. High on that list is the election of Rev....

T-word revealed unto us that #BlackLivesMatter protesters had been throwing cans of this Bumble Bee brand tuna at police officers.

The National Urban League says 3.7 million Black People were not counted in the 2010 Census.