In the Public Interest is a weekly column by Ralph Nader that runs in newspapers around the United States.
Recent columns:

Open Letter to George W. Bush
July 8, 2005

Summer Reading
July 1, 2005

Industrial Hemp
June 24, 2005

The Liberty Bill
June 17, 2005

The Perfect Political Trap
June 10, 2005

Solar Power
June 3, 2005

General Motors Cannonball
May 27, 2005

Democratic Offensive
May 19, 2005

Passing the Buck
May 14, 2005

The Future of Organized Labor
May 8, 2005

The Media and Bush
April 29, 2005

Tearing down Democracy
April 24, 2005

Hear ye, media!
April 15, 2005

Alan Dundes - Making sense of nonsense
April 8, 2005

An Effective Alliance?
April 1, 2005

The Layers of Terri Schiavo's unfolding Tragedy
March 26, 2005

Keep the Hammer
March 18, 2005

Corporate Cyborg
March 13, 2005

Take The Offensive; Stop Bush's Assault On Protections of Medical Malpractice Victims
March 3, 2005

How Safe are We?
February 25, 2005

El Jefe
February 19, 2005

Maintaining the duopoly
February 13, 2005

Eroding Americans' Last Defense: The Civil Justice System
February 4, 2005

Super Bowl Advertising
January 28, 2005

The BBB's
January 16, 2005

Political Bigotry
January 9, 2005

Giant Tsunami Strikes and Bush Goes AWOL for 3 Days
December 30, 2004

Ralf Hotchkiss
December 23, 2004

Professor Seymour Melman
December 20, 2004

Teaching Peace
December 10, 2004

Sign on the dotted line...
December 6, 2004

Wal-Mart
November 27, 2004

The People's Business
November 20, 2004

Why Can't Voters Be as Diligent as they are Sports Fans?
November 12, 2004

The Next Election.
November 5, 2004

Making Votes count on Medical Malpractice Issues.
October 21, 2004

A Participation in Power
October 15, 2004

Environmental Protection
October 1, 2004

Fighting Corporate Crime
September 25, 2004

Leave no calories behind.
September 17, 2004

The Buddy-to-buddy Regulatory System
September 10, 2004

The Plight of Labor
September 5, 2004

Risk of a Viral Pandemic
August 27, 2004

Court Funding
August 22, 2004

Carving out your vote
August 13, 2004

Poletown, Michigan
August 6, 2004

Party-Party
July 30, 2004

Pay Day Loans
July 23, 2004

Demand a Say, A Big Say
July 15, 2004

Tort Deform Bill
July 10, 2004

Corporate UNPATRIOTIC BEHAVIOR.
July 2, 2004

Iraq Labor
June 25, 2004

"Meet the "China Price"
June 20, 2004

Victor Reuther
June 11, 2004

Resolution 202
June 4, 2004

The Laboratories of Democracy
May 28, 2004

Honor Earth
May 22, 2004

Corporatizing the Pentagon
May 7, 2004

Retrospective Commissions
May 2, 2004

Urban-Metropolitan Coordinator
April 24, 2004

Project Citizen
April 17, 2004

The CAFE Standards
April 11, 2004

"Long live democracy, free speech and the '69 Mets..."
April 1, 2004

The Equality Index
March 26, 2004

Surviving on today's Family Income
March 19, 2004

Surges in Energy Prices
March 13, 2004

Pension Rights
March 4, 2004

The Ultimate Oligarch
February 27, 2004

Open Debates
February 20, 2004

Maxxam -- Pacific Lumber
February 15, 2004

Cleaners Appreciation Day?
February 6, 2004

Infectious Disease
January 31, 2004

John Hancock shenanigans
January 24, 2004

Citizens' Debate Commission
January 17, 2004

Deeper and Deeper in Debt
January 9, 2004

New Year Wish
January 2, 2004

"War is a Racket"
December 27, 2003

USDA vs. John Munsell
December 19, 2003

Shelving the GSE Reform Bills
December 12, 2003

Binding Arbitration Agreements
December 5, 2003

Pharmaceutical Prices
November 28, 2003

More on The Energy Disaster
November 22, 2003

The Energy Disaster
November 14, 2003

The Blue Frontier
November 7, 2003

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
October 31, 2003

Signs of Societal Decay
October 24, 2003

MTBE Bailout
October 17, 2003

The National Bank Regulator's War on Consumers
October 10, 2003

"The Platform is the Party's contract with the people."
October 4, 2003

The Do Not Call Registry
September 26, 2003

Privacy Rights
September 19, 2003

The Big SnApple
September 14, 2003

Government Purchasing
September 5, 2003

The Triumverate
August 29, 2003

State Rankings
August 19, 2003

Physicians for a National Health Program, Cable De-regulation
August 15, 2003

Commercial and Civic Values at the Neighborhood Level
August 8, 2003

The Corporatist Democratic Leadership Council
August 1, 2003

Gardening
July 25, 2003

Citizen-centric E-Government
July 16, 2003

The Job Export Machine
July 9, 2003

Plastic Money's Predatory Lenders
July 3, 2003

Selling the U.S. Government to the Insurance Industry
June 27, 2003

Zoonotic Diseases
June 21, 2003

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
June 13, 2003

Tax Cuts While Problems of Homeless Grow
June 3, 2003

Giving our Airwaves to the Media Moguls
May 31, 2003

Let Technology Work for People
May 21, 2003

Wiping out State Protection for Consumers
May 16, 2003

Important Tidbits
May 9, 2003

Wall Street Accountability
May 2, 2003

The SEC
April 24, 2003

OFAC and Corporate America
April 17, 2003

Shed no tears for the CEOs
April 11, 2003

The all-knowing, instinct-driven President
April 3, 2003

The Bankruptcy System
March 28, 2003

A Judicially-selected Dictator
March 20, 2003

Requests for Meetings with President Bush Ignored
March 13, 2003

States' Rights
March 7, 2003

MSNBC Sabotages Donahue
February 28, 2003

Addiction, Substance Abuse and the Gender Gap
February 18, 2003

Ignoring the caution signs
February 14, 2003

The cost and confusion of real estate settlements
February 5, 2003

Title IX
January 30, 2003

Corporate Freeloaders
January 24, 2003

Overspending on the Military
January 17, 2003

So, where is all this heading?
January 10, 2003

The Malpractice Crisis.
January 3, 2003

With out change, they might as well have kept Trent Lott.
December 26, 2002

Our White House-based west Texas sheriff
December 20, 2002

Listen up Mr. President. The buck stops at your desk.
December 13, 2002

The Robo-Candidate
December 6, 2002

New Chairman, New Banking Agenda
November 27, 2002

Predatory Lending
November 22, 2002

"Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak"
November 15, 2002

Mid-term Elections
November 7, 2002

Open Letter to the Democratic Party
October 30, 2002

Anthony Mazzocchi
October 24, 2002

Insuring Medical Malpractice
October 17, 2002

Whirlwind Wheelchair International
October 9, 2002

Holding Political Candidates' Feet to the Fire on Corporate Crime
October 1, 2002

IMF, Deregulation and The Tobacco Industry
September 26, 2002

GATS
September 20, 2002

Pay It Back And Go To Jail
September 12, 2002

Take that, passengers, and be sure to come back again and again.
September 4, 2002

The Highway Lobby
August 29, 2002

Congress' Annual Stealth Pay Raise Maneuver
August 22, 2002

Punishing the Poor to Bail Out the Credit Pushers
August 13, 2002

The Quest for the Fuel Efficient Car
August 8, 2002

The Labor Party
July 31, 2002

Citigroup, heal thyself
July 24, 2002

The Taft-Hartley Act
July 18, 2002

The Secret World of Banking
July 9, 2002

The Better World Travel Club
July 3, 2002

Corporate Appropriation of Public Resources
June 26, 2002

Money that corrupts
June 20, 2002

A Corporate State
June 13, 2002

The Fast Food Legacy
June 6, 2002

Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs)
May 30, 2002

"A fine deal" for Merrill Lynch
May 23, 2002

Predatory Lending, "Bankruptcy Reform", etc.
May 14, 2002

Call Waiting
May 9, 2002

Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)
May 1, 2002

Support the "Competition Title" in the Farm Bill
April 25, 2002

Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender
April 18, 2002

GM - Backwards into the future
April 11, 2002

Citizen Reform Groups and the "Cain-Gold" Bill
April 4, 2002

Corporate Reform Movement
March 28, 2002

FDIC Insurance Scam
March 13, 2002

Corporate Sinners
February 26, 2002

Enron and the Corporate Empowerment Imperative
February 7, 2002

Congress needs to clamp down on future Enrons
January 24, 2002

Congress Hides Their Votes
November 14, 2001

Corporate Patriotism
November 9, 2001

Nuclear Power Plant Risks
October 24, 2001

Patients Bill of Rights: First Step to Universal Health Care
July 3, 2001

Opt-Out for Your Privacy
June 21, 2001

Time for new reforms
May 28, 2001

Leave No Child Behind
May 21, 2001

Dick Cheney and Conservation
May 1, 2001

Nuclear mix-up
April 25, 2001

PayWatch.org
April 18, 2001

Mad Cow Disease
April 11, 2001

Tax Fraud
February 24, 2001

Business Crime, Fraud and Abuse Mean the Poor Still Pay More
February 22, 2000

Congress Should Stand Up to the Fed
February 15, 2000

Squeezing Coach Class
February 8, 2000

International Bribery
February 2, 2000

Why don't they ask? Candidates and the Media
January 25, 2000

Tough Corporate Critic on the Inside of the Corporate World
January 18, 2000

The Commission on Presidential Debates: Not the Unpartisan Organization It Appears
January 11, 2000

Electric utilities continue to overcharge customers
January 4, 2000

Make corporations pay for Y2K problems
December 24, 1999

Information Access: Congress and the President Should Disclose Their Records on the Internet
December 22, 1999

Welfare for DaimlerChrysler
December 21, 1999

Seattle and the WTO
December 7, 1999

Digital Commerce Act
December 1, 1999

Microsoft Mediation
November 22, 1999

Inflation and the Federal Reserve
November 15, 1999

Making Parents Irrelevant
October 27, 1999

Controlling Power
October 20, 1999

Privitization Risks
October 13, 1999

The New Energy Crisis: Getting Government's Attention for Renewables
October 6, 1999

Oily Rip-Off
September 29, 1999

Why is the Government Protecting Corporations That Prey on Kids?
September 22, 1999

Advertisers Overlook Privacy Concerns
September 15, 1999

CEOs Take Surprizing Stand on Campaign Finance Reform
September 8, 1999

Legal Loan Sharking
September 1, 1999

Maternity Marketers
August 24, 1999

A Growing Movement for International Labor Rights
August 17, 1999

A Hero for a New Age
August 10, 1999

Will E-Business Change the Traditional Marketplace?
August 3, 1999

Gore: Do the Right Thing!
AIDS Medicines and South Africa
July 22, 1999

We Need REAL Public Radio
July 14, 1999

Corporate Welfare Horror Stories
July 7, 1999

Truckin' Past Safety Regulations
June 30, 1999

A Lobbyist's Dream
June 23, 1999

No-Fault Insurance Leaves Consumers with Less Coverage and Higher Rates
June 16, 1999

Smelly Business: Car Makers and Air Pollution
June 9, 1999

Mergers Are On The Rise, So Why Is Congress Cutting Antitrust Enforcement?
June 2, 1999

Auto Insurance Savings
May 26, 1999

Gardens Vs. Corporate Welfare
May 19, 1999

Commerce in the Classroom
May 12, 1999

Corporations and Violence
May 5, 1999

What to do with Microsoft?
April 21, 1999

Welfare Reform?
April 14, 1999

Insurance's own Insurance
April 6, 1999

Merger Mania
March 30, 1999

Bringing Corporations to the Table
March 23, 1999

The Opinion Oligopoly
March 9, 1999

Hey, Corporate America! Show Taxpayers Some Appreciation!
February 23, 1999

Why is Congress Trying to Expand the Fed?
February 16, 1999

Watchful Legislation Bypasses Privacy
February 9, 1999

Privitizing Social Security a Mistake
February 2, 1999

Time for Detroit to Plow Through Sweet Deals for Corporations
January 26, 1999