The Home Front

By Don DeBat Back in the 1960s, Ralph Nader, the famed consumer advocate who authored a book titled “Unsafe At Any Speed,” lobbied for safer automobiles—especially against the Chevrolet Corvair and Ford Pinto. Today, in Chicago and across Illinois, the question Nader would ask: Are people unsafe on two wheels? As grim statistics on bicycle, electric scooter and motorcycle deaths keep piling up, the question in 2026 is how are people—especially risk-prone teenagers—going to p