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 The standard line for dealing with a bully is a weird psychodrama where we assume they are really insecure cowards and our course of action is to stand up to them and slap back. With or without empirical evidence, that’s the advice we have often taken to heart personally and advised …
New Orleans It’s not hard to follow the tactics of Elon Musk and his gang at the make-believe, unauthorized, so-called Department of Governmental Efficiency or DOGE, where he is without doubt the top dog. We’ve seen it all before. If you’ve watched any crime procedural on Netflix, Prime, or HBO, you’ve seen one …
Pearl River How times change. President Eisenhower in his farewell famously warned us of the insidious power of the “military-industrial complex.” President Biden in his swan song warned us about the emergence of oligarchy. Given the dearth of civic education these days, the Washington Post even thought it necessary to run a short course …