Mike Klonsky's Blog

I was in Parkland two days after the massacre  in 2018. I did some interviews with parents, educators, and students at Marjorie Stoneman Dou...

Gun sales are skyrocketing around the country including in the Chicago area. A mainly white racist fear/rage response to Trump's lo...

People celebrate the Office Van Dyke guilty verdict at 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard on Oct. 5, 2018. (Tribune) Former Yale Law S...

Laura Washington The whole world is still watching. - Sun-Times   Martin Ritter, CTU organizer Three Chicago Teachers Union ...

Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos and her predecessor Arne Duncan, each wanted to buy guns with federal education funds meant for school...

If elected, Lightfoot would become the city’s first openly gay mayor, and the first African-American woman to hold the job. She joins an i...

What Emma Gonzalez said without words. Editorial SPRING IS traditionally a time when schoolchildren come to the nation’s capital to le...

I'm back from Parkland where I got a chance to talk with some Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, parents and educators in the afterma...

Mourning through militancy Columnist Steven Thrasher But when death has come through great injustice, mourning through a militancy aim...

A year ago, after taking $30M from NRA, Trump signed order loosening Obama-era gun sale restrictions. Broward County, FL -- School's...

Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School “If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it...

I've been closely following the wave of school shootings like the one in Parkland, Florida since my days as a member of Pres. Clinton...