A federal judge blocked U.S. officials from enforcing a funding ban on ACORN, one of America's most effective anti-poverty groups. Congress cut off funding for ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- in September after right wing Web sites and TV news outlets -- mostly Fox...

Acorn is getting a bum rap -- in the news media, among politicians, and even by some foundations.

The attacks are worrisome not just because they have harmed an effective grass-roots organization but also because they show how the nation's increasingly polarized political environment, exacerbated by the news media, can...

By now most Americans have heard of the group, ACORN. It is so unique the mainstream press, especially the Washington Post, CNN, and other television networks are ill prepared to explain what it really is. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a nation-wide anti-poverty group that has,...

New York -- Yesterday as I entered Federal Hall in the heart of Wall Street to hear President Barack Obama's speech, a huge crowd gathered outside the building hoping for a glimpse of President Obama. Inside the hall I sat down with 150 Wall Street executives, government officials, including Tim...

Now we know that Karl Rove spearheaded the firing of David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico who refused to follow the Bush White House's orders to intimidate low-income voters by making false charges of "voter fraud." What the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street...

By Peter Dreier and John Atlas

For 38 years, ACORN, the nation's most successful community organizing group, has been making headlines by mobilizing low-income Americans to fight for social justice, challenging powerful banks, corporations, and government officials around such issues as wages for the working poor, predatory lending and...