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".
Cartagena If social media ever presumed to bring friends and families together, that pretence now seems quaint and ridiculous on so many levels. To pretend otherwise shows our age, nostalgia, and naïveté. The business model is based on exploitation, and those that understand this basic, seemingly foundational, fact weaponize it for their own ends …
Cartagena The whole shutdown the government thing in the United States is a serious problem, but for the public it’s becoming another case of crying wolf too many times. As people dial down for the holidays and are wrapping their presents, or just taking a breather, they weren’t changing the channels from Hallmark movies …
New Orleans I get the fact that President Biden and the White House are doing everything they can in their last month in office to cement his legacy and prepare for Trump 2.0. A lot of it is good, solid stuff, but there’s one proposal starting to slip out that seems spectacularly bad. Some …