Can the Decline in Letter-Writing be Reversed?

By Ralph Nader April 2, 2021 When Cornell University Press sent me an early copy of my sister, Laura Nader’s book: Letters To and From an Anthropologist, a collection of correspondences compiled over fifty-five years, I wondered whether such print letter-writing exchanges assembled in books were nearing extinction. My impression preceded young parents relating remarks … Read more

Reporter’s Alert: Part III

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 coverage, and corrections to published articles. We just started an online webpage: Reporter’s Alert. From time to time, we will use Reporter’s Alert to present … Read more

Reporters’ Alert: Launching a New Website Part II

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 coverage, and corrections to published articles. We just started an online webpage: Reporter’s Alert. From time to time, we will use Reporter’s Alert to present … Read more

Perfidy Meets Putty – Congressional Democrats Betray Voters

By Ralph Nader Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a … Read more

Reporters’ Alert: Launching a New Website

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 coverage, and corrections to published articles. Their voicemail messages often tell you how rarely they check their calls and urge reaching them by email. Good … Read more

Why Didn’t Speaker Pelosi Want Witnesses?

By Ralph Nader February 19, 2021 On the morning of February 13, 2021, just before the Senate impeachment trial abruptly ended with Trump’s acquittal, Constitutional law specialist Bruce Fein and I sent the following plea to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. More than 240 years of heroic sacrifices by our forebearers to plant the seeds of … Read more

The Struggle Inside Senator Mitch McConnell’s Brain

By Ralph Nader Since 2015, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has ruled the Senate with an iron hand, describing himself as “the Guardian of Gridlock.” He was Senator “NO,” except for confirming over 200 mostly corporatist federal judges. Now comes a new challenge for Mitch McConnell as he leads 49 other Republican Senators, twenty of … Read more