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Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga call for a "united front against China" . Democrats, including the party's le...

A solemn group of King Soopers workers, left, some from the Boulder store and some from the same district, brought large displays of flowers...

Fred Klonsky art. Bernie Sanders says Senate Democrats have the votes to pass another COVID-19 relief package now.  In an appearance on ABC...

U.S. training combat forces in Africa It's called AFRICOM . You didn't hear or read much about its secret war in Africa until t...

Sarah Palin with Gen. Tata I first wrote about Gen. Anthony J. Tata back in 2012. Back then it was considered hip for some reason, to pu...

Detroit residents line up to be tested for the coronavirus in April.  Prof. Kim Phillips-Fein, author  “There is a way that these cris...

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” -- Napoleon Bonaparte Three U.S. presidents, Bush, Obama, and Trump, have bought and sold t...

COUNTING VOTES -- 81% of the teachers who voted backed the contract. CTU Prez Jesse Sharkey ...called the contract, "a powerful a...

Aldermen Edward Burke (left) and Edward R. Vrdolyak confer during a Council debate in 1985.   "Mayor Washington was a friend, an a...

Susan Klonsky introduces Timuel Black at Sunday's event.  First Unitarian Church of Chicago honors Timuel Black But we are n...

Who in the Pritzker campaign thought this was a good look?  (M.Klonsky pic) “And most importantly, the character of our nation is on ...

Is anyone buying Paul Ryan's  stale excuse for jumping ship? No, he doesn't really want to spend more time with his children. He ...

As in West Virginia, educators in Oklahoma have reached a breaking point, fed up with stagnant wages and cuts to education funding. The...

CTU V.P. Jesse Sharkey on Claypool “His own arrogance did him in...Because, in his mind, there was no such thing as unethical as long ...

Juanita Irizarry, director of Friends of the Park on Hitting Left. Listen to podcast n iTunes.  Donna Brazile “I want to talk about th...

“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative t...

Tomorrow on Hitting Left, I will be missing my co-host, brother Fred, who is off to New York where he's taking part in a 40-mile bi...

To paraphrase Karl Marx, a specter is haunting America, Europe and the world. No, it's not the "spectre" of communism Marx was...

New Yorker  Pres. Obama "You've got a situation where they're not only entire states but also big chunks of states wher...

Jobs creators -- 30 years after the nuclear meltdown, the Great Arch at Chernobyl is finally completed. Natasha Korecki in this mornin...