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
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
By Ralph Nader August 8, 2025 The worst crimes of Donald Trump and dangers to America from the unstable, monomaniacal, lying outlaw in the White House have yet to come. He is not satisfied with tearing apart our country’s social safety net for tens of millions of Americans (e.g., Medicaid and food program cuts); wrecking … Read more
August 6, 2025 President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Convention Against Torture Dear Mr. President: The United States is a party to the Convention Against Torture. Among other things, Article 3 of the Convention prohibits the United States from sending or returning a person to a … Read more
July 28, 2025 Morton Mintz was a consummate ‘beat journalist.’ His pioneering sense of newsworthiness, including reporting what citizen groups were doing, opened up one area of consumer, environmental, and workplace abuses after another for other reporters to follow. He was the drug industry’s consistent “hair shirt.” Many a high corporate executive looked with dread … Read more