Entries by sepidehk

Safety at Sea

When the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, the public collectively gasped in horror at news accounts of how nearly 1,500 people had died in […]

NCL’s Legacy of Activism

It was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who proudly served as Vice President of the National Consumers League and represented the organization in meetings and testimony, who astutely observed, “No one […]

A New CMS Rule Could Be a Gamechanger for Adults with Obesity

January 17, 2025: Year in and year out, for over a decade, advocates and obesity specialists worked to get changes in federal policy. They pressed to get bills passed in Congress, drafted white papers, published research findings in medical journals, held roundtables and briefings, and sent letters and emails to policymakers over and over. But, using the Groundhog Day metaphor, the same day would start again.

Guest Blog: Paying Tribute to Jimmy Carter, Pension Champion

January 10, 2025: When Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976, I was a young whipper snapper living in an old, disheveled group house in Washington D.C. When I think back on that time, I fondly remember that his Administration—dedicated to energy conservation, peace and human rights—inspired me and many of my friends to become social justice warriors.