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".
Pearl River Traveling around the world, there’s no question that Trump has made it harder to be American. There has always been a fair amount of explaining involved, but there’s no way to rationalize the inexplicable and indefensible, except to note that we are all involved in fighting for freedom in our home countries …
Pearl River Weeks away from our global Beat the Heat Day, so-called heat domes in Europe recently and huge sections of the Midwest and northeast United States and Canada make it hard not to find ourselves in discussions about air conditioning. Going down dark holes on social media sites, it’s been interesting to see …
Pearl River Recently, we looked at interesting developments in using artificial intelligence and internet applications to advance direct democracy in countries as varied as Taiwan and Brazil. There are other forms of direct democracy still practiced old school. Political and economic pundits have gone into high gear about competing voter initiatives on the ballot …