Special Features

July 28, 2025 Morton Mintz was a consummate ‘beat journalist.’ His pioneering sense of newsworthiness, including reporting what citizen groups were doing, opened up one area of consumer, environmental, and workplace abuses after another for other reporters to follow. He was the drug industry’s consistent “hair shirt.” Many a high corporate executive looked with dread…

July 22, 2025 The Honorable Barack Obama The Office of Barack and Michelle Obama P.O. Box 91000 Washington, DC 20066 Dear Mr. Obama: We are dismayed at your idling while summoning citizens to man the barricades against President Donald Trump’s daily wrecking ball against the United States Constitution: usurping the war power, the power of…

June 4, 2025 Alan M. Garber President Office of the President
Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Re: Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias Dear President Garber: We are appalled at the procedural and substantive deficiencies that discredit the above-referenced Final Report’s finding of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias…

April 30, 2025 President Donald Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Resignation-Legions of Impeachable Offenses Dear Mr. President: President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, to avoid certain impeachment, conviction, and removal from office for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and disobeying a congressional subpoena. The resignation…

To Joe Biden: You have just decided that grizzly bears can remain on the endangered species list. Yet, week after week, you have watched Netanyahu target with U.S. F-16s innocent defenseless Palestinian families, killing 50-100 a day, and blocking humanitarian aid trucks with food, medicine and water for the dying and sick people in this…

December 30, 2024 Jimmy Carter was the last president to actively open the government for engagement by citizen groups. Right after his November 1976 election, he agreed to address a huge hotel ballroom in D.C. full of local and national citizen advocates. It was a great success never again repeated by succeeding president-elects. Mr. Carter…

Holiday greetings. Time for special generosity. These are the very worthy, effective, honest groups–all 501(c)(3)s–that I have contributed to over the years. You may wish to do the same to those that you think are of particular interest for your sense of justice, health and safety.  You can check out their websites. Alternative Radio: alternativeradio.org…

After years of selecting authors of excellent non-fiction books for public attention and action, I want to interest readers in a selection of my books that have stood the test of time. I believe that a box of books is better than “a box of chocolates.” These books make good gifts for young and older,…

October 14, 2024 Jo Ann Jenkins CEO AARP 601 E Street NW Washington, DC 20049 Dear CEO Jo Ann Jenkins, It is long overdue for AARP to take an introspective look at itself. I suggest this institutional self-appraisal as a long-time observer and user of AARP offerings. Years ago, I was invited to speak twice…

George Washington University November 1, 2024 Thank you all for organizing this important 50th anniversary event for the Freedom of Information Act of 1974. I was there years before and at the creation of this legislation that recognizes that information is the currency of democracy. I want to share briefly a description of the effort…