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 early months of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ tenure as governor of Arkansas have been marked by both confusion and consternation. Sometimes she seems confused and believes she is still former President Trump’s press secretary and trying to sell alternative facts and fantasy as if reality. Other times she seems to think …
Pearl River Living in the South, it is easy to become self-deluded about race. Public and private spaces seem more normalized and less strained than they were many decades ago in restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, and the like, at least in the majority Black city where I live. Don’t get me wrong. Racism …
New Orleans When it comes to the rightwing ideological crew, the US Supreme Court is living in their front pocket. Anytime a couple of attorneys general from the deep reds get a wild hair and decide to take a shot at making law before the courts, there always seem to be some justices …