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 Recently, in response to a bit of push and shove from the Trump administration and its compliant appointees, the IRS announced that churches will now be able to make political endorsements to its members. There wasn’t much attention given to this announcement. Most commentators simply shrugged, since mostly the restriction against …
San Francisco Despite falling membership and expensive scandals in many countries, the Catholic Church still matters in many communities, making the selection of a new pope something of interest and importance. In a historically Catholic city, like New Orleans, where memories persist of fish Fridays, Lent denials, Mardi Gras, and ashen foreheads on …
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 …