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By Ralph Nader November 7, 2025 National and state progressive civic groups have more than their hands full challenging Trump’s wrecking of America, but they need to address the ways they are weakening themselves. Here are some of them. 1. They are largely working remotely. Apart from the customary exceptions, not working in person with…
October 30, 2025 Senate Majority Leader John Thune 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 House Speaker Mike Johnson 521 Cannon Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Re: Surrender of congressional power to the White House Dear Majority Leader Thune and House Speaker Johnson: Under your leaderships, the wholesale surrender of constitutional powers of Congress…
Joe Page was my classmate, friend, and colleague for 70 years. He was an eminent and pioneering legal scholar who focused on the fields of torts, products liability, and food, drug, and cosmetics regulation. He also engaged in advocacy promoting consumer product safety and workplace health and safety before committees of Congress and in the…
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…
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,…
By Ralph Nader October 10, 2025 Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for the New 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…
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…
By Ralph Nader September 26, 2025 The media is reporting on the approaching government shutdown on September 30, due to an impasse between the two Congressional Parties. Trump is threatening more mass firings of federal workers should this occur. Der Führer Donald has already shut down vital government programs since he ascended to his elected…
September 24, 2025 To President Donald Trump: Members of Congress and people all around the country are demanding that you tell Netanyahu not to harm the very peaceful humanitarian flotilla of about 45 little ships, already under Israeli drone harassment on the high seas, on its way to Gaza with food, medicine, infant formula, diapers…
Submitted for Publication August 7, 2025 Dear Editor: The bipartisan op-ed by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Democrat Chris Coons backing a larger military budget to win the arms race with “America’s adversaries” is seriously incomplete. Nowhere do these Senators point to the absence of Congressional oversight of the Pentagon contractors’ widely documented waste, fraud…