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 Let me start by acknowledging that some parts of the world may simply be moving too quickly down the road for me to keep up. In my defense, or as an excuse, I realize I’ve got a lot of company. I’d like to argue that I’m simply on the trailing edge, …
New Orleans I don’t know if social media is addictive, but I do know almost any of us can slip down the hole they grease up and find ourselves an hour later wondering where time went. If you have time to kill, it’s a weapon of choice, waiting in line, sitting in airports, …
Brussels Gunshots bring only bad news in America. This time a young rightwing activist was shot and killed while speaking at a big university south of Salt Lake City, Utah. His name was Charlie Kirk, and he was unfamiliar to me, but he seems to have been a principal at Turning Point USA, an …