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".
Coyocan An In These Times article by Ottavia Spaggiari sucked me in with a pull quote that blared, “As the United States faces the largest healthcare cuts in its history – set to strip $500 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next nine years, leaving a projected 16 million …
New Orleans Trump knows he’s wrong. Killing FEMA would be a human and political disaster. Being asked by reporters whether he still believed ending FEMA was the right move, he clearly was hesitating and rethinking the issue. The terrible tragedy in central Texas due to the flooding of the Guadalupe River and to …
Pearl River We don’t read much about it, because the news these days is so DC and Trump-centric, but if we really want to understand what a weaponized US Justice Department might look like in going after opponents without any pretense of following the rule of law or the Constitution, all we have to …