WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans It was inevitable that Elon Musk would fall out of favor. Trump is legendarily mercurial in his attachments, with an exit often following effusive praise. In this case, it was clearly the world’s richest man having lived out his welcome, more than Trump giving him the heave ho. There are lessons …
Pearl River Months ago, Social Policy, the quarterly journal, led its spring issue with an anonymously written report that was being passed hand to hand among the cognoscenti of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area of California. The piece was well researched and detailed in its analysis of the thinking and impact of Curtis …
New Orleans Criminal justice and penal facilities have become hot button issues with demands ranging across the board from restorative justice to abolition to whether constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment are constantly ignored and racial discrimination is systemic. The politics around these issues have become unpredictable and toxic given the competing …