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Remembering Professor Joseph A. Page
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…
Read MoreStopping Trump Requires Higher Urgencies by the Pillars of Our Country
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…
Read MorePolitical Bullying/Intimidation and Internet Anonymity Intensify
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,…
Read MorePalestinians’ Fate: Victims of Genocide While Alive, Vastly Uncounted By the Media When They Are Killed
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…
Read MoreA Hypothetical Letter from Two Children in Gaza to the Children of America
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…
Read MoreTrump’s Government Shutdown Looms, Adding to What He Has Already Closed
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…
Read MoreUrgent Message to President Trump: Protect the Flotilla
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…
Read MoreWashington Post Letter to the Editor Re: Bipartisan Military Spending
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…
Read MoreWhat the Media Needs to Tell People About Israel’s Accelerating Gaza Genocide
By Ralph Nader September 19, 2025 Some serious readers would like to see mainstream media and independent media cover several events and matters involving the Israeli war in tiny Gaza and the mass slaughter of its defenseless citizens. Israel keeps exaggerating the status and threat by the Hamas government, which is ridiculous. What about an…
Read MoreREADERS—Help Us Get Answers from Key Groups That Should Be More Resistant of Trumpism
By Ralph Nader September 5, 2025 This column is a plea to our readers to help get responses from groups whose duties and rhetoric should cause them to become much more active in countering the fascistic, dictatorial actions of Tyrant Trump. All these groups have diminished themselves and their real potential to generate strong direct…
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