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 The Trump 2.0 administration has choked off aid to other countries, especially poor countries where the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) was a lifesaver in combating disease, mitigating disasters, and assisting in economic development. Legal action has left the agency on a lifeline, but money is still not moving. …
Amsterdam Yes, the harm from Trump’s petulant barrage of tariffs is very bad. Yes, snatching people with valid visas off the streets seems other worldly, and absolutely not the America we knew and loved. Yes, mass deportations without rhyme or reason to heinous prisons in El Salvador are outrageous, including the play-pretend of administration …
Marble Falls For all the signs of increasing resistance and chronic failures of the new Trump administration, there’s a problem that is impossible to ignore: Trump’s threats and bullying in many cases is actually working. In one case after another, there are huge blinking stop signs on fundamental activities and organizations because of …