The Barras Report Blog

As they say in horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house.  Under Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

WHEN we see a 75-year-old white man out in the woods with a group of Black and brown kids from low-income neighborhoods, teaching them...

WHEN General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford – the “Big Three” American automakers – were close to extinction 15 years ago, their workers and...

ON Saturday, environmental advocate Bill Vanderberg was where he is most Saturdays during the year – leading volunteers maintaining...

I traveled recently from Baltimore, the city where my mother grew up, to Portland, Maine, where my dad did. It’s easy for many to see...

THE interstates built in the 1950s and 1960s killed the vitality of the communities where people of color and the poor lived, from...

A lightning strike and a small fire are all it took this weekend to remind residents in South Louisiana – across much of the Gulf Coast...

TATUM is an East Texas town of about 1,300 people, closer to Shreveport than Dallas. It’s on the north shore of Martin Lake. Across the...

I thought last week about the psalm that describes how the most exalted pays closest attention to the smallest, the most in need among...

IF a public opinion poll done last month is right, more than half of you won’t know what I mean by the initials “ESG,” and fewer than one...

CONOCOPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from President Joe Biden's administration last week to proceed with its...

WE'VE had more mass shootings this year than we’ve had days this year. It’s sad to imagine that Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park will join...

AS an organizer who’s spent much of my life fighting for civil rights and access to the ballot box, I reflect on the work and words of...

A lot of good news came out of this month’s elections—and enough bad news to remind us that we can never let our guard down when freedom...

By Ben Jealous LIKE so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind. As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black...

THERE is always a new low for Trump Republicans. And that is pretty frightening. Take the latest exercise in lawlessness, dishonesty, and...

DID you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more...

THINGS are about to get worse for millions of vulnerable people in our country. It looks like the far right-wing majority on the U.S....

ANTI-DEMOCRATIC authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas....

HISTORY was made in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. Alabama state troopers viciously attacked peaceful voting rights marchers at the...