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".
Coyocan An In These Times article by Ottavia Spaggiari sucked me in with a pull quote that blared, “As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history – set to strip $500 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next nine years, leaving a projected 16 million …
Coyocan Trump’s idea of a Christmas present for his base is a dozen Tomahawks fired from a Navy ship in the Gulf of Guinea, striking two Islamic State camps in Nigeria’s Sokoto State. Supposedly, the rational for this action in Africa is a story being pushed by his Christian nationalist base that the Nigerian …
Coyocan It seems like forever ago when Americans were inundated by the daily news with the chaos in the Trump administration’s empowering Elon Musk and his DOGE, Department of Governmental Efficiency, to slash and burn their way through federal agencies and federal workforce. Almost a year later, it’s becoming possible to get an approximate …