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 In the United States, there’s a tendency to argue that we need a healthcare system that is better, and that’s the truth. Our corporate system, both for-profit and pretend nonprofit, is too expensive with too many gaps for too many people. Single payer systems like Canada’s or the vaunted National Health Service …
New Orleans I’m not a gamer. I believe some might be good and interesting, but it’s past my bandwidth, patience, and curiosity. I don’t do it, but I understand its attraction when there’s time to kill and boredom knocks at the door. What I didn’t understand fully until reading a report recently in …
New Orleans There are some parts of the current US presidential campaign that if it weren’t such a serious situation would be hilarious. For example, it’s hard not to get nostalgic for the good old days of elections when a candidate could be called a “flip-flopper,” and that might actually hurt their campaign. …