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 A political science professor at NYU, Adam Przeworski, has a disturbing theory about democracies, their stability, and their sustainability, which has gained increasing prominence. If he’s right, and there’s a lot of evidence that he’s got a point, even if he’s a bit off the mark, then none of us can …
New Orleans Reading my local paper, The New Orleans Times-Picayune Advocate, I couldn’t help but read an article about a pollster in the north Louisiana city of Shreveport, despite my commitment these days to not read anything about polls or the polls themselves. I actually read it more than once, because I wasn’t …
Pearl River The one thing that all of these billionaires promise when they buy big-city and national newspapers is that there will be editorial independence. They all say that, just because they have the most money with millions and billions to spare, that doesn’t mean that they will impose their opinions on the news. …