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Signed copies of my new book: Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns, are now available at Politics & Prose. Combating corporate abuses requires constant vigilance. Corporations shape America’s political process as much as they shape America’s economy through PAC contributions and threats to move manufacturing and service jobs to low-wage countries. The columns…

For more information on the campaign to raise the minimum wage visit: timeforaraise.org The current federal minimum wage is $7.25, way below the unrealistically low federal poverty definition of $18,123 per year for a family of three. Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage in 1968 would be above $10.50 per hour. An increase in the minimum wage…

GSE’s Shareholders Should be Allowed to Benefit From Fannie and Freddie’s Recovery Just as AIG and Citi Stockholders Benefited In a letter today to the Secretary of the Treasury, Jacob J. Lew, Mr. Nader urged Secretary Lew to consider the plight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s common shareholders. In the letter, Mr. Nader wrote…

Dear Mr. President: As a former lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, you know that the federal government, including the Office of the President, does not enjoy limitless powers.  As President, your powers are limited to those conferred either by the Constitution or federal statutes.  Supreme Court Associate Justice Hugo…

Three White Papers regarding civil liberties and executive power.  ABA Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants ABA Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements ABA Task Force on Domestic Surveillance

Citizens concerned about our national debt and wheeling and dealing on Wall Street should energetically support Rep. Keith Ellison’s (D-Minn.) “Inclusive Prosperity Act.” The “Inclusive Prosperity Act” would enact a speculation tax that could help shrink our nation’s deficit while safeguarding and reducing runaway speculative trading on Wall Street. A small financial transaction tax of…

A debate series by Ralph Nader & the Center for Study of Responsive Law What are the Pitfalls and Benefits of Using Ballistic Missile Defense? Friday, April 12, 2013 12 p.m. 1530 P St. NW Washington, DC The debate, held at the Carnegie Institution of Washington building, addresses a taboo subject in electoral, political and…

The Harkin/Miller bill to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 (in three years) still does not catch up with the federal minimum wage in 1968, adjusted for inflation, which should be at least $10.50 per hour in 2013. Since 1968, worker productivity has doubled and all workers have received for this effort…

February 6, 2013 The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today continued its tradition under the leadership of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe of shooting itself in the foot. The only question that remains is: When will the madness end? By ending Saturday letter delivery in August 2013, as the USPS has proposed, millions of customers who take…

President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama: We the undersigned are writing to urge that you pardon former CIA officer John Kiriakou. Motivated as a father devoted to his children, Mr. Kiriakou recently pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of…