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 I’m starting November by jumping on a plane and heading overseas for seventeen days: going big and hoping to make it home. Traveling has not been for the faint of heart for quite a while, but now in the semi-maybe-post-pandemic openings for travel around the world, it’s a rat’s nest of complexity …
Pearl River The drug lobby in all its facets is whipping our butts in the US. It looked like there was an opening to have the government negotiate better pricing for prescriptions, but that seems to have faded as the lobbyists and donors mobilized to push Congress into the quicksand where we are all …
New Orleans In the post-Floyd era, we want to believe that real reform is coming to our criminal justice system. There was so much talk that we deeply want to believe that there has been some action. We know that these issues have become polarized politically, but we still hope that some of the …