The Citizens’ Utility Board, or CUB, is a model approach for bringing together large numbers of diffuse consumers into a voluntary organization, which can then pursue a common citizen/consumer agenda in banking, insurance, housing or dozens of other arenas. I call it the “silicon chip” for the citizen movement because it is a low-cost, high … Read more
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2025 — November 30, 2025, marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Ralph Nader’s landmark book Unsafe at Any Speed. The book focused on the faulty rear suspension system of the General Motors Corvair. More generally, Unsafe at Any Speed documented how Detroit habitually subordinated safety to style and marketing concerns. … Read more
By Ralph Nader November 7, 2025 National and state progressive civic groups have more than their hands full challenging Trump’s wrecking of America, but they need to address the ways they are weakening themselves. Here are some of them. 1. They are largely working remotely. Apart from the customary exceptions, not working in person with … Read more
By Ralph Nader October 24, 2025 In snarling defiance of the Constitution and federal laws, Tyrant Trump’s egomaniacal drive is destroying our country. He is tearing apart the social safety net, health and safety protections, the people’s access to economic justice, worker/union rights, and electoral standards. He is undermining the critical separation of powers and … Read more
By Ralph Nader October 17, 2025 Professor Emeritus Roddey Reid could have retired from the University of California San Diego to a life of deserved leisure. Instead, he has just published a Handbook on Political Intimidation/Bullying, which is increasingly dominating government, business, and civil society. A guest this week on my radio show and podcast, … Read more
By Ralph Nader October 10, 2025 Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for theNew York Times, is known for his high standards. So too is Karen DeYoung, the long-time reporter and foreign affairs editor for the Washington Post. Yet they, and their editors, share a common, recurring failure by misleading their readers about the … Read more
By Ralph Nader October 3, 2025 In Gaza, 200,000 Palestinian children have already been murdered by the Netanyahu regime, with American weapons. A survey last year by a British civic group found that 46% of the children in Gaza wanted to die, and over 95% believed they would be killed. This is not surprising. The … Read more
Submitted for Publication August 7, 2025 Dear Editor: The bipartisan op-ed by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Democrat Chris Coons backing a larger military budget to win the arms race with “America’s adversaries” is seriously incomplete. Nowhere do these Senators point to the absence of Congressional oversight of the Pentagon contractors’ widely documented waste, fraud … Read more
By Ralph Nader September 5, 2025 This column is a plea to our readers to help get responses from groups whose duties and rhetoric should cause them to become much more active in countering the fascistic, dictatorial actions of Tyrant Trump. All these groups have diminished themselves and their real potential to generate strong direct … Read more
In 1971, conservative corporate lawyer and later Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell issued the notorious “Powell Memorandum” urging the reactionary forces of right-wing corporatism to rally against the social movements that swept the nation in the late 1960s and early 1970s and advising them on how they could succeed in rolling back the progress of … Read more
August 15, 2025 New York Times: Patrick Kingsley Aaron Boxerman Isabel Kershner Adam Rasgon Natan Odenheimer Ronen Bergman International Editor: Philip P. Pan Washington Post: Louisa Loveluck Shira Rubin Abbie Cheeseman Miriam Berger Gerry Shih John Hudson Associate Editor: Karen DeYoung Wall Street Journal: Foreign News Editor: James Hookway The American Prospect: Editor, David Dayen … Read more