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".
Marble Falls Every once in a while, as I scoot between train stations in Europe or the UK, oblivious to the many of the stops, I’ll jump off the platform into some car going the wrong or opposite direction. None of this is lifechanging. Maybe it adds 30 or 60 minutes. Just another …
New Orleans Maybe it’s one of those times when the right thing happens, even if for the wrong reasons. I’m not sure. It reminds me of playing pool in pickup games, when I was first learning the game in my ill-spent youth. Sometimes a misdirected shot would end up dropping several balls in …
Pearl River Headlines were blaring today in the Times and elsewhere about Harvard, but this time it had nothing to do with the dispute between the Trump administration and the university about diversity and goodness knows what else. This time the focus was on the fact that for years Harvard had been the number …