News Release: Nader Responds to Powell Memorandum of August 23, 1971

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

OPEN LETTER to Journalists on the Vast Undercount of Deaths & Serious Injuries in Gaza

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

Re: Convention Against Torture

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

Statement by Ralph Nader on the Passing of Morton Mintz at the age of 103

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

Summer Reading to Spark Civic Action

By Ralph Nader July 11, 2025 Readers think, and thinkers read. Here are some selections for your summer reading list. A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges (Seven Stories, 2025). With brilliant narratives, both historical and contemporary—Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges provides the framework that explains how the … Read more

BRAND TRUMP’S NAME ON HIS BIG SAVAGE WRECKING OF AMERICA BILL

By Ralph Nader July 3, 2025 The narrow passage of Trump/GOP 1100-page bill that spells death, destruction, and deprivation to the American people—including MAGA voters and innocents abroad should destroy the Trumpster Republicans in the 2026 Congressional election. However, by then it will be too late for poor American children facing Trump reducing the food … Read more

Why Are Tyrant Trump’s Institutional Critics Remaining Silent?

By Ralph Nader June 13, 2025 By now Tyrant Trump and his fascist wrecking crew have made abundantly clear their objectives of police state control, corporatist rule, and corrupt self-enrichment resulting in the destruction of our constitutional freedoms and its rule of law. (See the New York Times article by Ben Rhodes from June 8, … Read more