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 On Wade’s World recently, I talked to two law professors Hannah Johnson and Renee Jefferson about how they handicapped the chances of various Black women judges who had been mentioned as possible nominees for the open seat in US Supreme Court. They had some interesting insights on that question. The odds-on favorite they believed was …
New Orleans It’s really getting crazy out there, but crazy, serious and scary, not crazy, funny and weird. Let’s start with the cast of characters who want to be the Spy Boys of the right wing: Richard Seddon, Erik Prince, and our old friend, James O’Keefe. What a crew! Always follow the money first, …
New Orleans Talking to Frank Vogl on Wade’s World he began by making sure I understood that “no offense” was meant, when he said to me, “Suppose you were Vladimir Putin and you had gotten several $100 million from Gazprom, the biggest gas producer in the world, and you wanted to move it out of Russia …