Mike Klonsky's Blog

With the next mayor's race on the horizon and early stirrings around possible candidates to take on Rahm Emanuel, the issue of Chicago...

Alaskans gathered outside U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Anchorage office urging her to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos as education secr...

O'hare Airport Saturday night.  Donald Trump    [Muslim ban] " is working out very nicely, and we’re going to have a ver...

Credit: Creative Commons/AFGE "Ed reformers are just waiting for their turn to talk. They only want to talk about themselves. Anyt...

Why does Trump hate the cities? It's because that's his enemy's stronghold. Just listen to him, still pissing and moaning abo...

Quarter-million marched in Chicago Donald Trump Mentioned education only once in his inauguration speech, referring to,  "...an e...

Brit protesters hang banner across the Thames.  "It’s growing by the day,"  says Politico's Natasha Korecki in Illinois Pl...

DT is counting on a right-wing biker battalion to pull security duty at his inauguration. He imagines a horde of thousands of "Biker...

Congressman John Lewis’s bestselling graphic novel March: Book One was inspired by a 56-year-old comic, Martin Luther King and the Montg...

Democracy is not a sport where the two teams do battle every few years and we as spectators cheer our team on, hoping for the best and th...

Pritzker School Loses Librarian And Union Blocks Parents From Helping Out -- DNAinfo headline From the headline, one might think that ...

Former Peltier prosecutor calls for his release.  Author Yaa Gyasi ("Homegoing")  The history of America has involved figuri...

Massachusetts defends schools from privatization. Ranks #1 in Quality Counts. Edweek's annual Quality Counts report gives the natio...

Alabama NAACP leaders arrested after sit-in at Session's office.  After months of suffering in despair and taking badly-needed recov...

Lots of folks are worried about the fate of the #NoDAPL movement once Trump takes office. I understand their fears. But from my vantage p...

#NoDAPL banner dropped at yesterday's Bears/Vikings game Shaun King I do not know exactly what 2017 will bring. I agree that it wi...

From Thomas Garrard at Moveon.Org Dec 31 at 3:02 PM To: Michaelklonsky@... Thank you for standing up for public education by signing thi...

I see where two of my favorite journalists, Glenn Greenwald and Shaun King , are being accused by Twitter trolls of being "cheerlead...

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

"Just as the three wise men did on that night, this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King." -- RNC ...