Mike Klonsky's Blog

Chauvin (right) with his defense attorney, Eric Nelson.  “Today starts a landmark trial that will be a referendum on how far America has com...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on the military killings in Myanmar I am deeply shocked by the killing of dozens of civilians, in...

A solemn group of King Soopers workers, left, some from the Boulder store and some from the same district, brought large displays of flowers...

  Robert Reich,  former US secretary of labor The most dramatic change in American capitalism over the last half-century has been the emerge...

U.S. carrier group in the South China Sea Hundreds of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders turned to social media to air their anger, sadne...

“I made clear the US will defend our national interests, stand up for our democratic values, and hold Beijing accountable for its abuses of ...

First and foremost, neither Dr Seuss nor Mr Potato Head are being cancelled.   Akin Olla on Dr. Seuss Real cancel culture has existed in the...

“They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they s...

What's going on here? Corporate America, Hollywood, and NFL owners all rebranding and advertising Black Lives Matter themes, doling out ...

  Tim Miller  CPAC Was the Real Republican Party All Along. --  The Bulwark Sarah Jones Schools need to reopen, but the process is complicat...

This, in the era of mass school shootings... Trump Junior Donald Trump Jr. Rips Teachers Unions In Front Of A Gun Wall. "The teachers...

 "I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning. There's never been anything like it." -- Donald Tru...

  “If [a metal shredder] is not good enough for the North Side,” said Gina Ramirez, referring to the area where RMG previously operated Gene...

Our living room was packed on a summer day in 2014 for our Bagels With Karen fundraiser. As everyone has heard by now, former CTU Pres.  Kar...

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

Fred Klonsky art. Bernie Sanders says Senate Democrats have the votes to pass another COVID-19 relief package now.  In an appearance on ABC...

 Dave Zirin on Henry Aaron We have lost someone who, even though he played much of his career in Atlanta, was a fierce foe of Jim Crow—and t...

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s top leaders listened in stunned silence this month: One of their peers, they were told, had devised a ...

Hollow Men So this is the way Trump goes out. Not with a bang but a whimper, to borrow from T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men. And if there w...

Dr. King is arrested for "loitering" in Montgomery, Alabama, in September 1958. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The problem of racism...