The Barras Report Blog

The far-right attack on voting rights is fierce. And the unwillingness of some Senate Democrats to challenge rules that allow a...

Judith Sandalow sat inside the square — the virtual infrastructure made ubiquitous by the coronavirus pandemic as we’ve sought to remain...

As a backdrop to the budget deliberations expected to begin this week in the DC Council, a fight has ensued between several legislators,...

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser hasn’t formally announced whether she will run for a third term. However, the decisions behind her proposed $17.5...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate are a threat to our democracy. Here’s the latest proof: Republicans are using the Senate’s filibuster...

THE bullet crashed her chest, escaping through her back. It was so sudden and swift, Reagan Grimes didn’t fully realized she was shot....

It’s commendable that DC elected officials are concerned about the survival of local small businesses in DC’s post-pandemic reality. It’s...

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...

WHAT happens when DC’s deputy mayor for health and human services seems determined to steer parts of a multibillion-dollar contract to a...

A coalition of organizations led by some of the most powerful Black women in America this week called for the immediate vote on the...

When Black comedian Flip Wilson performed some outlandish, wholly funny routine on his television show in the 1970s, he ordinarily...

TWO seemingly ordinary people—one black, the other white--collided on the streets of Minneapolis in May 2020. It was in the middle of a...

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

Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....

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

If it is true that “none of us are ourselves,” as Isabel Wilkerson declares in her book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” the...

Imagine going to a physician with a complaint about an ailment you have been experiencing for several weeks. Without examining your...

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...

A confluence of timely reports, including Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety by the DC Police reform Commission and pending...

WE have been forced to walk each day with death for the past year—so many lives snatched by COVID-19, the disease caused by the...