Mike Klonsky's Blog

I doubt it.  U.S. companies have raked in billions of dollars in super-profits, especially during the pandemic, from a burgeoning, privatize...

“By shifting the conversation towards more holistic approaches to safety, we believe that the new plans will enable schools to use strategie...

"America, disillusioned with itself, is now withdrawing." -- David Brooks Brooks   is an unreconstructed imperialist, an anti-Chi...

Donald Trump “If it’s bad, I say it’s fake. If it’s good, I say that’s the most accurate poll ever.” -- Forbes . Pastor James Altman  ...sai...

WH Press Secretary Psaki: "Kids should learn not just the good, but also the challenging in our history." -- Twitter Nikole Hannah...

Dorian Warren, the president of Community Change, a D.C.-based social justice organization What Is Post-Trump Patriotism? ~  I thought of Fr...

The people hired to take on corporate salvation projects have to have "Mussolini-like powers to execute and implement." -- Tribun...

Dorothy: 'I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.'  Toto: Nope. It's 2021 and we're still in freak'n Kansas....

Surfside, FL condo building collapse could be an omen of things to come if we go light on the infrastructure bill. AOC on the infrastructure...

Tucker Carlson: Critical race theory will lead to the genocide of white Americans. Hard to wrap my head around this one. ..A battle royale b...

George Clooney and a group of A-listers, including Don Cheadle and Kerry Washington, are working with the Los Angeles Unified School Distric...

House lawmakers passed the Chicago elected school board bill Wednesday, dealing a blow to Mayor Lori Lightfoot, even as enough potential fla...

As Biden preaches collective security and prosperity to the Group of Seven rich democracies, the European Union and NATO, he has to reckon t...

As I was Going to St. Ives BY ANONYMOUS As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had s...

R.I.P. 'CHUY' NEGRETE  --  “He was an educator of the highest extreme,”  James Edward Olmos  said of the Chicago writer of corridos ...

 Already there have been more global cases in 2021 than in all of 2020, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Dr. Anthony Fauci  “We d...

Of course, the neo-confederate GOP leadership is opposed to another probe of their 1/6 attempted coup d'etat. To them, the coup wasn'...

Delmarie Cobb on Hitting Left radio in 2017.  Veteran media and political consultant,  Delmarie Cobb  responded, in her recent newsletter , ...

The Biden administration set aside $4 billion to help minority farmers. White farmers, echoing some old-guard Chicago journalists, complain...

As controversial as that was, it's important to note that the policy was for one round of interviews. @chicagosmayor gave a press confe...

Thousands march in Brooklyn Why has there been so little press coverage in Chicago media, aside from the small obligatory news reports, on t...