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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Sharon Kyle, JD, is a formerpresident of the Guild Law School and is the publisher and co-founder of the LA Progressive. For years before immersing herself in the law and social justice, Ms. Kyle was a member of several space flight teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed resources for projects like Magellan, Genesis, and Mars Pathfinder. Sharon sits onseveral boards including the Board of Directors of the ACLU. She is a contributing writer to Black Politics Today. Follow @SharonKyle00. Contact the LA Progressive, Ms. Kyle and BC.
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The union organizer and democratic socialist challenging Rep. Jared Moskowitz argues that Democrats cannot defeat the right by imitating it.
Once regarded as the nation’s most important swing state, Florida has moved sharply to the right under Republican control. Donald Trump has carried the state three…
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From campaign dominance to policy control, the concentrtion of wealth among billionaires is transforming participatory democracy into a system of elite rule.
Wealth holders experience outcomes abstractly This is not about personal virtue. It is about structure. When your income is derived from your labor, you are usually…
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The collapse of the Iran Deal didn't deliver a better agreement - it restored a system where instability drives profit, power, and public distraction.
and the cost of re-engagement rose on all sides From Iran’s perspective, the lesson was obvious: agreements can be reversed with a change in administration. From…
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What Military Spending Reveals About America's Priorities.
A global comparison of defense budgets, population, and healthcare systems raises a simple question: Why does the richest nation on Earth fund war so easily but…
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When “diversity” and “ethnic” become code for “non-white,” they stop being tools for inclusion and start serving the very hierarchies they claim to challenge.
Language is not neutral. Every word carries the fingerprints of power — who gets to define it, who gets to use it, and who gets erased…
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How Trump’s fixation on tariffs collides with the ambitions of China, Russia, India, and North Korea—reshaping global alliances and undermining U.S. credibility.
When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, his foreign policy was guided less by strategy than by spectacle. He railed against China’s economic rise,…
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Altadena Fire: Real stories from affected communities tell a sad story. Some were warned, others weren’t.
The Coleman family moved to Altadena, CA, in 1969. The house they came to call "home" became the hub of warmth, love, and security to the…
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What progressives need is an ALEC alternative. Something that works for progressives in some of the ways that the American Legislative Exchange Council works for conservatives.
As LA Progressive Publisher, I talk about ALEC and how they help Republicans win while the Democrats fail to have anything that supports progressives. In fact,…
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the belief that some people matter and are deserving of justice and humane treatment while others don’t gets infused into our policies.
As bell hooks used to say, “we live in a First World, imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist, hegemonic, cis-gendered, patriarchy” - so why should L.A. be any different?…
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