Mike Klonsky's Blog

"If you think you've been seeing a lot more bright young people living in Chicago lately, you have", reads the lead sentenc...

Rahm's pal David Axelrod hints that Rahm may not run.  Despite the many millions in his campaign warchest, there are signs that Mayo...

What kind of country would tear apart and lock up families fleeing violence in their homelands? Ours. -- L.A. Times Editorial Donald Tru...

Thousands of Chicago parents and community members protested the 2013 school closings.  CPS’ current Schools Chief Janice Jackson calle...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been another violent weekend in Chicago, with at least 6 people killed and 32 others hurt in shootings acro...

Police Chief Art Acevedo of Houston, center, walking with demonstrators during a “March for Our Lives” protest in March. After a school s...

To celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, Susan and I road-tripped out of Salt Late City, up through the Uinta mountains of northern Uta...

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...

Former Police Board President  Lori Lightfoot is expected to officially announce today that she's joining a long list of candidates, ...

Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA ... also pushed to arm teachers and called on schools to be “the most hardened targets in this cou...

Did Paul Vallas think we'd forget that he was Gary Solomon's partner? Former schools CEO Vallas, who, has already run losing ca...

It's May Day and thousands of us will be marching for social justice in Chicago, as we do every year. This year, I'm drawing i...

Nobody's talking arming teachers any more.  Lynne McKernan, seventh-grade AZ writing teacher  Said Arizona lawmakers walked out of...

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong ELLA FITZGERALD sang jazz in a voice so pure and perfected that it admitted no pain -- and America ...

Photo: Sporting News Archive, Sporting News Via Getty Images Dave Zirin It’s not for us to forgive Jack Johnson. The opposite is the ...

Damascus after the attack.  War is the enemy of education, of children and families. Education leaders have no business supporting war o...

"And all the boys there, at the bar, began to sing along..." -- Dixie Chicken (Little Feat) Donald Trump “Mission Accomplish...

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 ...