This major achievement on April 14, 1935, was not possible without a fight, write three authors, each of whom is descended from New Dealers.
Social Security Hits 85— The Crown Jewel of the New Deal
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
US Postal Service Was Never a Business. Stop Treating It Like One
Chad Marlow champions an institution at that heart of U.S. society that breathes life into citizens’ constitutional rights.
LEE CAMP: The Execution of Elephants and Americans
Here’s a hint you might be on the wrong side of history — when your government officials have to pretend to be someone else when contracting with chemical companies that make killer cocktails.
War and Pandemic Journalism
COVID-19: The ‘Free Market’ Wolves of the Pandemic
Vijay Prashad espouses confidence in rejecting the neoliberal capitalist framework, which arose against plenty of warnings over several decades and now exposes workers to the wolves of the “free market” during the pandemic.
UPRISING: Urban Planning as Tool of White Supremacy – The Other Lesson from Minneapolis
The legacy of structural racism was laid bare at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street, writes Julian Agyeman.
Killing Democracy in America
As the leading purveyor of violence and terror, the U.S. inevitably becomes its own opponent, writes William J. Astore.
WATCH: The Tolpuddle ‘Martyrs’ & Julian Assange
Through the lenses of economics, politics, law and history, an examination of the case of Julian Assange and lessons learned from the Tolpuddle ‘martyrs’.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Iraq & the Nuremberg Precedent’ — March 16, 2006
This is the 11th story in our series looking back on a quarter century of journalism by Consortium News.
Cold Wars & Profit
Craig Murray lambasts a Russophobic media that celebrates a supposed cyber attack on UK vaccine research, ignores collapse of key evidence of a “hack” and dabbles in dubious memorabilia.