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 Evangelicals have been a force in American politics for decades now. I’ve paid attention, but have seen them as one of an array of special interest, pressure groups, so have taken a sort of live-and-let-live attitude that they were all part and parcel of the democratic process. That is starting to seem …
New Orleans Recently, I called out Florida and the efforts of Governor Ron DeSantis and his crew to try and put their finger on the scale to prejudice Florida voters in favor of choice on pregnancy by injecting a fake speculation of the cost to the state if the measure passed. I thought they …
Pearl River Jason DeParle, who covers the poverty beat for the New York Times, says the Harris-Trump contest “presents the sharpest clash in antipoverty policy in at least a generation, and its outcome could shape the economic security of millions of low-income Americans.” In noting the differences, he reports that Harris “…would seek to sustain …