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".
Taipei One lesson that seems unavoidable in Taiwan, at least from our readings and our early days, is how history is built on shifting sand, as much as hard rock. We also could not avoid this feeling in our visits to the both the National Museum and the Museum of Natural History. We might …
New Orleans It’s a good thing that the Reconstruction era is getting a good look these days, as some of the country comes to grip with the lost opportunities of that period and the long shadow of the Redeemers in the South who lost the war, but won the peace when it came to …
New Orleans In the United States, history is made every day, just as it is everywhere the world turns. Recently, we’re seeing history made in bold letters. A one-hundred-year global pandemic would make the list. So would a siege of the US Capitol abetted by a disgruntled, sulking president in his last days …