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By Russell Mokhiber It was just another day at the National Press Club. Public Citizen, founded by Ralph Nader, was holding a news conference in the Holeman Lounge on July 27, 2026 titled – Combating Corruption. (The Holeman Lounge was named after Frank Holeman, a former reporter for the New York Daily News. Holeman went…

In July 2026, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing focusing on Big Tech’s role behind the piracy of copyrighted content to fuel companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) models. The hearing featured witness testimony from bestselling author David Baldacci, AI experts and law professors. Hawley’s claim – AI companies had crossed the line of…

If you were a leader in the national Democratic Party and wanted to launch a nationwide campaign against Donald Trump for his widespread corruption, who would you choose as the face of the campaign? Not Senator Charles Schumer, the Senator from New York who has pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in Israel Lobby cash…

In 2007, Ana Malinow was president of the nation’s premiere public interest group pushing for single payer national health insurance – Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). But a couple of years ago, Malinow, a retired pediatrician, helped start a separate group called National Single Payer. The difference between the two groups? PNHP is tightly…

Over the past couple of years, a hybrid type of activist has emerged in Washington, D.C. To get a paycheck and pay the bills, they toil away inside the non profit industrial complex – made up of non-profit organizations generally aligned with the Democratic Party. Then they have side gigs, where they go on Substack…

By Peter Castagno (This article was originally published on the front page of the May/June 2026 print edition of the Capitol Hill Citizen newspaper. To get a copy of the print newspaper, go to capitolhillcitizen.com) In September 2014, a Google engineer hosted a private meeting at the company’s Mountain View headquarters. The guests included a…

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s and founder of the Up in Arms Campaign, joined national security experts, scientists, and advocates on the National Mall in early April to unveil a satirical monument criticizing Donald Trump’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense system, warning it would be ineffective, exorbitantly expensive, and dangerously destabilizing. The installation…

On May 11, 2026, the New York Times published a letter from Glen Weiner of Tarrytown, New York, questioning the wisdom of banning cell phones from schools. “As a father of two, I understand the appeal of cellphone bans,” Weiner wrote. “All parents want fewer distractions, better grades and more focus for their children. But…

by Linda Pentz Gunter (This article was published in the May/June 2026 issue of the Capitol Hill Citizen. You can get a copy of the print edition of the paper at capitolhillcitizen.com) “Total cowardice,” muttered a friend recently after spending a day on Capitol Hill visiting various predominantly Democratic Congressional offices.  She was lamenting what…

It was a cold day in December 2010. I went out for a walk in the snow and stumbled across an anti-war protest in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House.’ An army veteran was giving a speech against Obama’s wars. His name was Mike Prysner. I pulled out my handy little Flip…