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 mixed feelings when I opened The New Yorker when I saw there was a long piece by Patrick Radden Keefe with the eyebrow “Letter from New Orleans.” On one hand, it was crack, there was no way that I wasn’t excited to read whatever it might have been about. …
Bengaluru Picking up a copy of the Times of India, while waiting for ACORN’s Indian organizing directors for another session of our annual meetings, there were several articles on how Elon Musk and his Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) has supposedly uncovered a grant for $21 million from a division of the United States …
Heerlen There are many columns in the Times and of course other papers that I frankly refuse to read anymore. Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman are maddening examples. I would rather read the conservative columnists without pretense, rather than these apologists for neoliberalism, self-delusion, and general whining. One column that I have read more …