Mike Klonsky's Blog

“We are way ahead on testing. We are the best in the world on testing. We’ve tested much more than anybody else, times two — or every cou...

San Juan Mayor Says 'No One' in Puerto Rico Has Received a COVID-19 Stimulus Check Shia Kapos It was an insurgence but "...

Food for thought... Michael Bloomberg tried to buy the election. He spent more than $1B on his failed presidential run. To put that in...

I'm in prison in New York. Many are sick with Covid-19 – and I fear for our safety." -- Rikers prisoner James Johnson N...

I was fortunate to be invited to take part in a zoom discussion the other night on  "The Black Freedom Movement Then and Now: Organi...

There’s this talk about unity as this kind of vague, kumbaya, kind of term. Unity and unifying isn’t a feeling, it’s a process. -- AOC ...

Cook County Jail is now the national epicenter for COVID-19. Prof. Marc Lamont Hill  Easter calls us to remember the plight of the pri...

Chicago Theater welcomed Boeing in 2001.  It's been nearly 20 years since Boeing Corp. pulled one of the great hustles on the peop...

When Jonathan Bailey returns home from his job at an Amazon warehouse, he puts everything he was wearing in a plastic garbage bag. ... New...

Trump in Michigan to African-American voters in 2016: "Vote for me. What the hell have you got to lose?"  “What do you ha...

Biden campaign has a new podcast. Is that it? With only 7 months to go in the campaign, it's not so much that Joe Biden has disappe...

Bad penny. Paul Vallas is like that proverbial bad penny. He always turns up, uninvited. When he does, he's usually part of the pr...

Migrant workers in India wait to board buses following government mass evacuation order.  Donald J. Trump Speaking in the White House...

According to today's Washington Post-ABC poll , Trump and Biden are running neck-and-neck. One can only wonder how big a lead Biden ...

Homeless families threatened by coronavirus occupy vacant houses in southern California.  "This is our moment to prove ourselves a...

Another bad day for Madigan and the machine. Big wins for Kim Foxx and Marie Newman. People are crazy and times are strange I'm loc...

Yamiche Alcindor, PBS White House correspondent  Why did you shut down the pandemic office in the White House? Trump first calls it a...

Students at Chicago's Little Village Academy as CPS school ordered closed.  "The system is not really geared to what we need r...

Women Pack Streets in Massive Int'l Women's Day Marches Across Latin America New York Times editorial Already, citizens who ar...

Happy birthday, Chicago . Sanctuary city of immigrants. Heartbeat of anti-Trump resistance. Definitely a union town with a black, gay, w...