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".
Mexico City If you’re trying to gauge the outlook for workers, especially lower waged workers in the USA in the coming year, strap the seat belt tightly, because the ride has a lot of ups and downs, curves and corners. So many economists have different crystal balls they are examining, whether employed by the …
Mazatlán Mi companera follows Twitter largely for the laughs, although she sometimes finds pearls among the swine, as the saying went. Today, she read me one from a wag that said, “Why did Elon Must buy Southwest Airlines without anybody knowing it?” Not only is that funny, even if it’s a form of gallows humor, …
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 …