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".
Pearl River I was startled to pick up my copy of Poverty & Race, which is normally a pretty dry effort by largely academics sprinkled with some organizers from time to time that looks at policy in these areas produced quarterly by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. The lead article seemed of …
Brussels Karl Rove was the consiglieri for the Bush branch of the Republican Party. He’s hardly the bellwether for the MAGA brand or a Trump fanboy, but his regular column in the Wall Street Journal gives him a big platform to business, Washington, and the political class in general. He’s a partisan, but he’s …
New Orleans DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, has become a contentious piece of language welded to the conservative attack on “woke” culture. It’s a hard flag to fly right now, and hasn’t been easy in the past either. As a rough substitute for “affirmative action,” which was even more controversial and didn’t …