Facilitating Civic and Political Energies for the Common Good*
By Ralph Nader February 2, 2022 Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the…
By Ralph Nader February 2, 2022 Some readers responded to one of my earlier columns urging the national progressive civic groups, with millions of members back home, to overcome the…
…raise real political heat under the Republicans whose refusal to bend on this issue could result in their breaking? The mass media, after all, covers the news-making president everywhere. I’ve…
…in effect, corporate laws enforced by the state. If you want to read these legally binding rules of law you must purchase them yearly for $1000 or more per copy….
…Headlines are even more important in today’s age of declining newspaper readership. That is why journalists respect the best headline writers whose genius is to read a story and figure…
…few rulers of autocratic nations, without institutional civic and political resistance, caused the deaths of 60 million people in World War II, can attest. At this point, some readers may…
…binding himself to the rule of law and the Constitution. Second, the Trumpsters will establish more secretive government, led by their very secretive boss (note his refusal to reveal his…
…direct threat by Trump, the mass media is not all going to turn into Fox News. The stories of the pain, deprivation, and chaotic sadism imposed on totally innocent American…
…Comedy. Breaking through the national media in the early 1960s—from Time Magazine to the famous Jack Paar’s TV show, Tonight—Dick Gregory showed America that he could connect comedy with a…
…in the world. Senator Bernie Sanders just took a bus tour to a Canadian pharmacy where insulin cost patients one tenth of what it costs them in the U.S. Yet,…
By Ralph Nader Reporters at major newspapers and magazines are hard to reach by telephone. Today it is increasingly hard to converse with them about timely scoops, leads, gaps in…