Latest Publiccitizen Podcast Episodes
Proxy Wars/ America Run Amok
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 30, 2023 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes award-winning foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer to discuss America's bloody history of proxy wars. They'll also discuss the mainstream media's "shameful" coverage of the war in Ukraine, the warhawks on Capitol Hill, and the catastrophic trickle-down effects of American military...
Clean(er) Capitalism
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 23, 2023 17:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Toby Heaps, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Canadian magazine “Corporate Knights,” which ranks the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations. And we welcome back Dr. Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” to discuss Donald Trump’s continui...
Reducing Gun Deaths
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 16, 2023 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsProfessor David Hemenway, the author of “Private Guns, Public Health” joins us to explain how we can reduce gun deaths if we treat the problem more like a public health issue, just like Ralph proved when dealing with the auto industry. Plus, Ralph weighs in on the repeal of the child tax credit,...
The Procrastination Equation
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 09, 2023 17:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsMark Twain once said, “Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow.” As an antidote to that Ralph welcomes Professor Piers Steel, author of “The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done.” Plus, Ralph urges listeners to sign up ...
The San Quentin News
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - September 02, 2023 18:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes newspaper publisher, Steve McNamara, to discuss the "San Quentin News," California's largest resident-run newspaper and the birthplace of the San Quentin News Forum— where incarcerated men and visiting police, attorneys, and judges share their perspectives on the criminal justice ...
Join or Die
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - August 26, 2023 17:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes civic activist, writer and filmmaker, Pete Davis, to discuss “Join or Die,” a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Then Professor Scott Sklar, an expert on sustainable infrastructure joins us to talk about one of the easiest ways we can ...
The False Promise of Small Nuclear Reactors
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - August 19, 2023 17:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph is joined by M.V. Ramana, professor at the “School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia,” to lay out the false promise of small nuclear reactors, which still carry the risk of accidents, still produce waste, still produce plutonium for the weapons industry an...
Financing Co-ops
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - August 12, 2023 15:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes the CEO of the National Cooperative Bank, Casey Fannon to discuss his bank’s work serving cooperatives and other member-owned organizations. The NCB helps finance affordable housing, healthy food, renewable energy, small businesses, community-driven health care, and non-profit org...
Digital Addictions
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - August 05, 2023 17:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and an expert on culture and therapy, mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics to talk about our addictions to screens and how to break out of them. Plus, our resident constitutional...
Wonder Drug
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - July 29, 2023 20:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph spends the whole hour with Jennifer Vanderbes, author of “Wonder Drug: The Secret History Of Thalidomide In America And Its Hidden Victims.” Thalidomide was never “commercially available” in the U.S., but American doctors handed out samples to patients even though no one could prove the dr...
Stop Ignoring The People!
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - July 22, 2023 17:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph and our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, discuss how they compiled letters they sent to various government officials and representatives that have gone unanswered into a book titled “The Incommunicados” and how this unresponsiveness violates our First Amendment right to petitio...
Young Swing Voters
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - July 15, 2023 17:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Maxim Thorne director of the non-partisan Civic Influencers, an organization that trains young people to inspire their peers to vote and therefore swing elections toward issues they care about and also fights “generational gerrymandering,” efforts by certain states to make it hard...
The American Dream: And Other Fairy Tales
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - July 08, 2023 16:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Abigail Disney, to discuss her work trying to get her namesake’s company to pay their workers a fair, livable wage as told in her documentary, “The American Dream: And Other Fairy Tales.” Plus, Erica Payne cofounder of The Patriotic Millionaires and co-author of “Tax The Rich!” re...
What’s The Matter With Delaware?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - July 01, 2023 19:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes journalist and executive director for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Hal Weitzman, to discuss his book “What’s The Matter With Delaware? How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All.” Hal Wei...
War Made Invisible
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - June 24, 2023 17:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph spends the entire hour with co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Solomon, to discuss his latest book, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine,” which examines how our “military-industrial-med...
Tribute to Ford, Robinson, and Belafonte
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - June 17, 2023 16:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThis week we welcome back Professor Randall Kennedy to help us pay tribute to three principled, uncompromising African American activists, Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report, human rights champion, Randall Robinson, and legendary actor, singer, and activist, Harry Belafonte. Randall Kennedy is Mi...
Economic False Prophets
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - June 10, 2023 15:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes New York Times reporter, Binyamin Applebaum, author of “The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society” about how Chicago School economists of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s “who believed in the power and the glory of markets… transformed the busines...
License to Loot
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - June 03, 2023 18:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsA “license to loot” is what our guest, economist William Lazonick, calls stock buybacks. Until the Reagan Revolution, stock buybacks were considered market manipulation and at the very least are an unproductive use of profits used only to pump up the stock price and enrich upper management, whil...
Predatory Capitalists
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - May 27, 2023 15:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, Gretchen Morgenson, co-author of “These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs – And Wrecks – America,” where they name names in this “heads we win, tails you lose” system of predatory capitalism. Gretchen Morgenson is the senior financial re...
Defeating a Boondoggle
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - May 20, 2023 18:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsAuto safety expert, Byron Bloch, joins us to tell the story of how citizens in conjunction with the Sierra Club defeated a highway widening boondoggle in Maryland. Then we welcome microgrids manager at the Green Justice Coalition, Sari Kayyali, to tell us how microgrids in his community have sav...
Writers Strike!/Occupy the Library!
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - May 13, 2023 17:18 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWe welcome former Writers Guild of America (West) president and current co-chair of the negotiating committee, David Goodman, who also happens to be the head writer for many of your favorite TV shows like “The Family Guy” to tell us why TV and movie writers are on strike. Then, grad students San...
Celebrating Law Day
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - May 06, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn conjunction with the American Museum of Tort Law, we conduct another live Zoom recording where Ralph welcomes legendary trial lawyer Shanin Spector to discuss the constitutional right of wrongfully injured people to have their day in court and the corporate forces that are trying to limit thi...
Sports Talk!
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 29, 2023 17:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsOn a relatively lighter note, we welcome national baseball writer for the New York Times, Tyler Kepner, to talk about issues in the sports world in general but more specifically about his latest book “The Grandest Stage: A History Of The World Series.” Also joining the conversation will be frien...
Protecting Yourself
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 22, 2023 17:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes Samuel Levine who heads the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission to give you tips on how to use this government agency to protect yourself from corporate fraud and abuse. Plus, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, Dr. Michael Carome stops by...
Falls Aren’t Funny
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 15, 2023 16:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn a live Zoom event in conjunction with the American Museum of Tort Law, Ralph welcomes safety expert, Russell Kendzior, who runs the National Floor Safety Institute to discuss where, why, and how slip-and-falls happen, how to prevent them, the legitimacy of slip-and-fall lawsuits, and the role...
War! What is It Good For?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 08, 2023 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWe continue our indictment of the U.S. war machine by welcoming William Hartung of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft to break down the bloated military budget and what we can do about it. Then Cindy Sheehan, joins us to talk about her journey as the mother of a fallen soldier to be...
How The Financial Markets Abandoned Us
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - April 01, 2023 18:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsWe are joined for the full hour by geopolitical financial expert and financial historian, Nomi Prins, to discuss her new book, “Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever,” which highlights the huge gap between the high-flying stock market, versus back down he...
Spank the Banks
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 25, 2023 19:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsRalph welcomes economist, attorney, and investigative journalist, James Henry for his expert take on what is going on in the banking system and what we can do to keep it from blowing up. And Professor and former Nader’s Raider, Alison Dundes Renteln, takes on the commercialization of our univers...
Iraq War: Twenty Years Later
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 18, 2023 18:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn a lively and insightful roundtable discussion, Ralph hosts former Marine company commander, Matthew Hoh, who when not deployed also worked in the Pentagon and the State Department and independent and unembedded Iraq war correspondent, Dahr Jamail. They mark the twentieth anniversary of the U....
Indigenous Voices on Turtle Island
Ralph Nader Radio Hour - March 11, 2023 18:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn a jam-packed program full of abundant insight, Ralph first welcomes back Dahr Jamail to discuss his work “We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth” about what we can learn from indigenous people who have survived incredible disruptions to the cl...
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