Political Sphere - LA Progressive

Koch Told Employees How to Vote

Lee Fang: Corporate coercion of employees is perhaps the most profound repercussion from the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision last year.

Reclaiming Our Hope

By Paul Rogat Loeb

Paul Loeb: It’s been a frustrating time since November 2008, but our challenge is to spend less time bemoaning our disappointments and more energy engaging with ordinary citizens the way so many of us did a year and a half ago. If we give people enough ways to act on our present crises, we never know how history might turn.

International Women’s Day: Iran and The Global Struggle for Women’s Liberation

By Sikivu Hutchinson

Sikivu Hutchinson: Although the U.S. and Europe are often regarded as the models for women’s political agency, Middle Eastern feminists like Gol emphasize their solidarity with the struggles of disenfranchised women in the West, particularly that of women of color.

Most Recent LA Progressive Articles

Michael Sigman: For many old-media types I talked to, there was more resignation than outrage this time around, as though a cherished institution were already gone.

Julie Driscoll: Students and their parents’ only hope is Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown, two Democratic Senators who have the cojones to take on big banks, Wall Street, and the powers that be.

Berry Craig: Called the “Ride for Respect,” the demonstration at Walmart corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, will be modeled on civil rights volunteers who rode buses into the South in the 1960s to protest Jim Crow racial injustice.

Animated Social Media Icons Powered by Acurax Wordpress Development Company

Koch Told Employees How to Vote

International Women’s Day: Iran and The Global Struggle for Women’s Liberation

Sign up for our daily newsletter.

Recent Comments

Progressive Report Card

Most Recent LA Progressive Articles

What is Prison-based Gerrymandering?