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".
Baja California In the ongoing saga of Elon Musk’s reputational meltdown at Twitter, it just keeps getting better and better. The reason lies not in his fall from the richest man in the world to the second richest, but in the ways his arrogance and petulance combine into his own special witches’ brew to …
New Orleans Donald Trump announced yet another run for president in order to be first out in the field. Yawn. No surprises there. Not even a headline in the New York Times on his announcement. That must have hurt him to his core. I’ve already declared that he’s my favorite for the Republican …
Pearl River We were organizing nurses at a hospital in Amarillo, Texas some years ago in the time of the Haley Bopp comet. We’d filed for an NLRB election, but we were far afield of our natural base in Texas in the big cities. It was one of those situations where we should have …