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

Americans Roaring Back: “You’re Fired” to Trump/Musk and Their Corporate Greed Machine

By Ralph Nader May 9, 2025 Except for a few professional Democrats, most prominently Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, the Party of the Donkey still can’t decide to use the best words and phrases to describe the cruel, vicious, law-violating fascist dictatorship that is increasingly “Wrecking America.” Trump and his Trumpsters have no inhibitions, crazily labeling … Read more

“YOU’RE FIRED!” –GROWING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE REJECTING TRUMP

By Ralph Nader May 2, 2025 Of all the epithets seething from the foul mouth of King Donald I (his preferred title) – “deranged,” “wacko,” “lunatic,” “crazy,” “crooked,” “loser,” “criminal,” “corrupt,” the most timely, functional one is his favorite: “YOU’RE FIRED.” Launched from his TV program, “The Apprentice,” while a failed businessman, Trump, using the … Read more

New Report Sounds Alarm on Cashless Economy and Credit Exploitation: Freedom, Privacy, and Consumer Power at Stake

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ralph Nader or Zachary Wathen at: (202) 387-8030 or by email at [email protected] New Report Sounds Alarm on Cashless Economy and Credit Exploitation: Freedom, Privacy, and Consumer Power at Stake Washington, D.C. — As the U.S. economy barrels toward a digital future, a new report from the Center for Study of … Read more