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Ralph Nader is one of America's most effective social critics. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, his documented criticism of government and industry has had widespread effect on public awareness and bureaucratic power. He is the "U.S.'s toughest customer" says Time magazine. His inspiration and example have galvanized a whole population of consumer advocates, citizen activists, and public interest lawyers who in turn have established their own organizations throughout the country.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
The Republicans' Devious Tax Attack on the People How much are the American people going to take before they replace the reckless Republicans in the next election? Low and middle-income Americans are bracing for the likely passage of a Trump-supported tax bill that deviously redistributes even more of the people's income to the richest one percent (including a big tax cut for Trump) and the unpatriotic giant corporations.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017The Republicans' Devious Tax Attack on the People How much are the American people going to take before they replace the reckless Republicans in the next election? Low and middle-income Americans are bracing for the likely passage of a Trump-supported tax bill that deviously redistributes even more of the people's income to the richest one percent (including a big tax cut for Trump) and the unpatriotic giant corporations.
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
The Rule of Power Over the Rule of Law For centuries patriarchal mayhem has exploited women in the workplace or the home. Raw power -- physical, economic and cultural, regularly, overpower the legal safeguards against wrongful injury, rape and torture, both in the household and at work.
Saturday, November 18, 2017The Rule of Power Over the Rule of Law For centuries patriarchal mayhem has exploited women in the workplace or the home. Raw power -- physical, economic and cultural, regularly, overpower the legal safeguards against wrongful injury, rape and torture, both in the household and at work.
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Saturday, November 11, 2017
Public Cynicism Enables Costly Political Hypocrisy Beware of crony capitalism -- it turns politicians against the taxpayers they allegedly represent in favor of unaccountable corporate interests. Don't let the "welfare kings" pick your pockets, by letting Congress wallow in cash register politics misusing the very power you have delegated to it.
Saturday, November 11, 2017Public Cynicism Enables Costly Political Hypocrisy Beware of crony capitalism -- it turns politicians against the taxpayers they allegedly represent in favor of unaccountable corporate interests. Don't let the "welfare kings" pick your pockets, by letting Congress wallow in cash register politics misusing the very power you have delegated to it.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Trump's War Against His Own Voters As president, Donald Trump has declared war on regulatory programs protecting the health, safety and economic rights of consumers. He has done so in disregard of evidence that such protections help the economy and financial well-being of the working-class voters he claims to champion.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017Trump's War Against His Own Voters As president, Donald Trump has declared war on regulatory programs protecting the health, safety and economic rights of consumers. He has done so in disregard of evidence that such protections help the economy and financial well-being of the working-class voters he claims to champion.
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Saturday, October 21, 2017
Why is Nobelist Economist Richard Thaler so Jovial? Thaler's skepticism helped him produce books and articles showing an obvious but powerful truth: that people are consistently and predictably irrational and will act in a way that undermines their own self-interest. And contrary to the dogma of mainstream economics, the market overall doesn't filter out such irrationality to avoid messy realities.
Saturday, October 21, 2017Why is Nobelist Economist Richard Thaler so Jovial? Thaler's skepticism helped him produce books and articles showing an obvious but powerful truth: that people are consistently and predictably irrational and will act in a way that undermines their own self-interest. And contrary to the dogma of mainstream economics, the market overall doesn't filter out such irrationality to avoid messy realities.
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Friday, October 6, 2017
How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy Remarkably, the artificial creation called the "corporation" has now achieved almost all of the rights of real people under our "We the People" Constitution that never mentions the words "corporation" or "company." Politicians use their ever-increasing corporate cash to saturate voters with deceptive political ads, and intimidate any competitors who have far less money, but may be far better representative of the public good.
Friday, October 6, 2017How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy Remarkably, the artificial creation called the "corporation" has now achieved almost all of the rights of real people under our "We the People" Constitution that never mentions the words "corporation" or "company." Politicians use their ever-increasing corporate cash to saturate voters with deceptive political ads, and intimidate any competitors who have far less money, but may be far better representative of the public good.
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Saturday, September 23, 2017
The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons The domination of "breaking news"-increasingly defined by episodes of violence, natural disasters and celebrity/political outrages and lurid scandals-is rampant. Sunday morning TV "news" display the same subject, the same invited guests that were in that week's newscasts. It has become almost impossible to introduce subject matter, especially fresh and reports, outside of this tightening circle of opinion oligopolists.
Saturday, September 23, 2017The Censorious Vortex of the "Flash News" Barons The domination of "breaking news"-increasingly defined by episodes of violence, natural disasters and celebrity/political outrages and lurid scandals-is rampant. Sunday morning TV "news" display the same subject, the same invited guests that were in that week's newscasts. It has become almost impossible to introduce subject matter, especially fresh and reports, outside of this tightening circle of opinion oligopolists.
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
Teaching Civic Skills and Action Should Be Standard in Schools Education by civic practice and experience changes the present and improves the prospects for the future by increasing the number of lifelong civic leaders and the much greater number of part-time public citizens in every community of our country.
Saturday, August 12, 2017Teaching Civic Skills and Action Should Be Standard in Schools Education by civic practice and experience changes the present and improves the prospects for the future by increasing the number of lifelong civic leaders and the much greater number of part-time public citizens in every community of our country.
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Friday, August 4, 2017
Will a Mega-Billionaire Rescue America from GOP's Insurance Mayhem? In a country that spends well over $3 trillion a year on "healthcare," the GOP's various bills leave millions of families fearing loss of insurance, reduced coverage, larger deductibles, unaffordable co-pays and inscrutable insurance and billing fine-print trap doors. This is producing serious fear, anxiety, depression and in many cases absolute terror for sick children and ailing parents.
Friday, August 4, 2017Will a Mega-Billionaire Rescue America from GOP's Insurance Mayhem? In a country that spends well over $3 trillion a year on "healthcare," the GOP's various bills leave millions of families fearing loss of insurance, reduced coverage, larger deductibles, unaffordable co-pays and inscrutable insurance and billing fine-print trap doors. This is producing serious fear, anxiety, depression and in many cases absolute terror for sick children and ailing parents.
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Can the World Defend Itself From Omnicide? Our present educational systems -- from Harvard Law School, MIT to K-12 -- are not rising to these occasions for survival. Our mass media, wallowing in trivia, entertainment, advertisements and political insults, is not holding the politicians accountable to serious levels of public trust and societal safety. Time for new movements awakening our best angels to foresee and forestall.
Saturday, July 29, 2017Can the World Defend Itself From Omnicide? Our present educational systems -- from Harvard Law School, MIT to K-12 -- are not rising to these occasions for survival. Our mass media, wallowing in trivia, entertainment, advertisements and political insults, is not holding the politicians accountable to serious levels of public trust and societal safety. Time for new movements awakening our best angels to foresee and forestall.
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
Detecting What Unravels Our Society -- Bottom-up and Top-down Readers think; thinkers read. That includes learning from the mistakes of societies throughout history that wrongly believed that they were impervious to crumbling from within. In our culture of virtual reality and Twitter-length propaganda, we all too often forget the valuable lessons of past mistakes.
Thursday, July 20, 2017Detecting What Unravels Our Society -- Bottom-up and Top-down Readers think; thinkers read. That includes learning from the mistakes of societies throughout history that wrongly believed that they were impervious to crumbling from within. In our culture of virtual reality and Twitter-length propaganda, we all too often forget the valuable lessons of past mistakes.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs" More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs" More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called "war on drugs" needs serious rethinking.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
It's About Bringing Your Congress Back Home, Citizens! The large marches, in Washington, DC and around the country, calling attention to importance of science and focusing on the calamitous impacts of climate change had impressive turnouts. But the protests would have been more productive if they concentrated more -- in their slogans and signs -- on 535 politicians to whom we have given immense power to influence policies relating to those issues, for ill or for good.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017It's About Bringing Your Congress Back Home, Citizens! The large marches, in Washington, DC and around the country, calling attention to importance of science and focusing on the calamitous impacts of climate change had impressive turnouts. But the protests would have been more productive if they concentrated more -- in their slogans and signs -- on 535 politicians to whom we have given immense power to influence policies relating to those issues, for ill or for good.
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
Crash of Trumpcare Opens Door to Full Medicare for All Even without any media, and any major party calling for it, a Pew poll had 59% of the public for Full Medicare for All, including 30% of Republicans, 60% of independents and 80% of Democrats. Ever since President Harry S. Truman proposed to Congress universal health insurance legislation in the 1940's, public opinion, left and right, has been supportive.
Thursday, March 30, 2017Crash of Trumpcare Opens Door to Full Medicare for All Even without any media, and any major party calling for it, a Pew poll had 59% of the public for Full Medicare for All, including 30% of Republicans, 60% of independents and 80% of Democrats. Ever since President Harry S. Truman proposed to Congress universal health insurance legislation in the 1940's, public opinion, left and right, has been supportive.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
"Making America Great" at Americans' Expense Donald J. Trump was a builder of casinos and high-priced hotels and golf courses. Now he is a builder of a tower of contradictions for the American people that is making "America Great" at their expense.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017"Making America Great" at Americans' Expense Donald J. Trump was a builder of casinos and high-priced hotels and golf courses. Now he is a builder of a tower of contradictions for the American people that is making "America Great" at their expense.
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think With President Trump displaying a revealing ignorance toward the role of governing, now is the time for the people to stand up and shape the future of their families and communities. We must demonstrate stamina and hold accountable those in power until they faithfully serve the interests of the people, and not a handful of corporate paymasters.
Thursday, March 2, 2017Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think With President Trump displaying a revealing ignorance toward the role of governing, now is the time for the people to stand up and shape the future of their families and communities. We must demonstrate stamina and hold accountable those in power until they faithfully serve the interests of the people, and not a handful of corporate paymasters.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Restricting People's Use of Their Courts Courts should not be places of case overloads and long delays. They should be welcoming temples of justice where judge and jurors engage in reasoned deliberation for the advancement of justice as part of a functioning democracy. The demands for justice are such in our country that courts should have more judges, more juries and more trials.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017Restricting People's Use of Their Courts Courts should not be places of case overloads and long delays. They should be welcoming temples of justice where judge and jurors engage in reasoned deliberation for the advancement of justice as part of a functioning democracy. The demands for justice are such in our country that courts should have more judges, more juries and more trials.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Tripwires for the Trumpsters the Trumpsters have vowed to dismantle various government programs. They are determined to severely limit the protection of labor, replace public schools with taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, and drop regulatory protections in the health, safety and environmental fields, among others. Acting without the requisite legal authority is of little concern to Mr. Trump.
Wednesday, December 28, 2016Tripwires for the Trumpsters the Trumpsters have vowed to dismantle various government programs. They are determined to severely limit the protection of labor, replace public schools with taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, and drop regulatory protections in the health, safety and environmental fields, among others. Acting without the requisite legal authority is of little concern to Mr. Trump.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Trump Trumpets His Real Plans Only if there is a superlative to the word "nightmare" can the dictionary provide a description of Trump's bizarre selection of men and women marinated either in corporatism or militarism, with strains of racism, class cruelty and ideological rigidity. Many of Mr. Trump's nominees lack an appreciation of the awesome responsibilities of public office.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016Trump Trumpets His Real Plans Only if there is a superlative to the word "nightmare" can the dictionary provide a description of Trump's bizarre selection of men and women marinated either in corporatism or militarism, with strains of racism, class cruelty and ideological rigidity. Many of Mr. Trump's nominees lack an appreciation of the awesome responsibilities of public office.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Divest or Face Impeachment: an Open Letter to Donald Trump Supporters such as Rudy Giuliani contend that your holdings are so large that divestment is just unrealistic. But size does not erase principle. Self-enrichment is wrong whether an office holder is of modest or great wealth -- indeed, if anything, the greater the amount, the worse the problem. We should not apply the much criticized banking ethic of "too big to fail" in this circumstance.
Thursday, December 8, 2016Divest or Face Impeachment: an Open Letter to Donald Trump Supporters such as Rudy Giuliani contend that your holdings are so large that divestment is just unrealistic. But size does not erase principle. Self-enrichment is wrong whether an office holder is of modest or great wealth -- indeed, if anything, the greater the amount, the worse the problem. We should not apply the much criticized banking ethic of "too big to fail" in this circumstance.
