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".
Mexico City Reading almost anything on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal is risky business. With few exceptions, this is where the wildest beasts of the right are allowed free rein to roam. Not too long ago, I couldn’t resist, when both “IRS Reform” and “Lawless Nonprofits” were included in the same …
New Orleans There was a simple article that ran in the local papers on the AP wire, entitled “IRS kills Direct File program.” The piece was alerting the few readers that might have noticed the article buried in the paper that the Direct File program would “not be available in Filing Season 2026. …
Pearl River There’s a long chapter in the autocrats’ playbook on going after the nonprofit sector. In India, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Morocco, and countless other countries, first you attack and cut off foreign funding. Next you investigate them forcibly and publicly with uniformed police, guns drawn, and seize records, computers, phones, and bank accounts. …