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 I had the equivalent of one of those Hollywood slap-in-the-face wakeups after giving my son a lift to open up at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse. I was listening to NPR until I could connect to WAMF, and they were running an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, who, among other jobs, most recently served as a special envoy …
Atlanta There’s no question that Bill Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda, along with their foundation have, as the saying goes, “more money than God.” It seems that Mr. Gates sometimes gets confused on whether it’s just about the money or that he can act like his own little version of a god. The news of the world …
Pearl River The divisions in politics around the world have often and always been violent. Party adherents attack the devotees of over parties. Rivals eliminate rivals in order to hold on to power or gain power, or in milder cases, jail and exile them. In the United States, we like to pretend the periods of …