Mike Klonsky's Blog

  Debra Haaland, the next Sec. of the Interior “I’ll be fierce for all of us, for our planet, and all of our protected land,” said Haaland i...

The Anjanette Young case is one more brick-in-the-wall story about a racist political system. It's a system that reproduces racial ineq...

Chicago has plans for a phased school reopening starting in January if the spread of the virus stabilizes, but the local teachers’ union say...

The best honorific for Dr. Biden might be "Teacher".  Whatever the purpose of Joseph Epstein's   WSJ screed ...  it surely fai...

My blood is boiling after seeing news and videos of violent American fascists ("Proud Boys) being turned loose on mask wearers and cou...

The richest 5 percent of households in Illinois have average incomes 14.6 times as large as the bottom 20 percent of households and 4.9 time...

   More than 13.4 million people in the country have been infected with the novel coronavirus and 267,306 have died as of 2:30 p.m. Monday, ...

'Who's gonna pardon me?' Matt Farmer's latest   “Here’s to those emoluments who keep my family fed, and to all those confede...

  Well, at least now we know what Sec. of State  Mike Pompeo and   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin   Netanyahu were secretly  meeting about ...

Thousands of unmasked Hasidic sect members squeeze inside the Yetev Lev temple in Brooklyn for the wedding of a chief rabbi’s grandson. Simi...

  Biden was at a candidates event in Houston with National Education Association members in July 2019 when he said: “First thing, as preside...

Grifters WEEKEND QUOTABLES Joe Biden has signaled his reluctance to pursue a  criminal case against Trump. In August, Biden said he'd l...

I'm both troubled and amused to hear from so many Democrats still hoping beyond hope that Republicans will come to their senses. Many ca...

  Coup d'état A coup or coup d'état is the removal of an existing government from power, usually through violent means. Typically, i...

Chicago daycares and private schools report 495 Covid cases, but numbers don’t tell the whole story: “From April 1 through mid-October, the ...

  Rebecca Solnit Biden's victory is only the prelude. What happens now is up to us. -- Guardian James Downie, WaPo's Digital Opinion...

SNCC Poster, 1963, Photography by Danny Lyon Woke up this morning with my mind Stayed on freedom  I woke up this morning with my head still ...

  D.C. Teachers Union Pres. Elizabeth Davis “The Chancellor’s plan to reopen our schools to in-person learning will disrupt the education of...

A note from  Danny Lyon :   This i s an open link to my new film SNCC. Anyone can see it. It is free. I welcome comments on the Vimeo site....

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'Absolutely' my job to push Democrats to the left. “We need to make sure that we win this White House,...