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By Ralph Nader July 25, 2025 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst Speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before its five-week vacation. He wants to avoid holding votes on releasing the Epstein files that reportedly include, among other notables, Donald J. Trump. This is the latest…
Read MoreBy Ralph Nader July 18, 2025 Since the attached article was published on May 2, 2025, Trump has made matters worse by having his Congressional Republicans shred America’s historic social safety net in one big, savage, cruel, and vicious bill. He also gave more power, privileges, and tax escapes to giant corporations who fund him,…
Read MoreBy 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 MoreBy 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 MoreBy Ralph Nader June 27, 2025 People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory was so overwhelming that Cuomo conceded generously, saying that Mamdani ran a “…highly impactful campaign…” “He deserved it. He won.”…
Read MoreBy Ralph Nader June 20, 2025 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the truth about Tyrant Trump the other day regarding Trump’s war with Israel against Iran. She said, “The President hears all voices across the country, and he makes decisions based on his instincts.” His instincts are wrapped around his ego, his fantasies,…
Read MoreBy 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 MoreBy Ralph Nader June 9, 2025 A good way to understand CIVIC SELF-RESPECT – the title of my timely new book – is to recall a slice of American history from the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies. Those were the years when Congress and a Republican President, Richard Nixon, produced many laws strongly…
Read MoreBy Ralph Nader May 30, 2025 Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany – to the aimless killing of civilian families in Gaza is increasing. The mainstream, U.S. media has no excuse to cease its incomplete and biased reporting on the horrific…
Read MoreBy Ralph Nader May 23, 2025 The chronic lies of Der Führer Trump, hour by hour, day after day, are having deadly and costly impacts on the American people, with many more casualties in the pipeline of wreckage he and his henchman Elon Musk have wrought since January 20. Trump’s lies, threats, and fake promises…
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