Shaun King has branded himself as an activist and organizer. But is he? Hanna Phifer explains how King has elevated and inserted himself into conversations without care for the people he claims to be serving.

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A month before the 2020 election, that President Joe Biden WON,  spending had already reached $14 billion. Not counting the flurry of last-minute donations, and additional spending in the Georgia Senate race.

Meaning, the calculable 2020 election spend was greater than the GDP of 100+ nations across the world. How? Where does the money go? Where does the money come from? And why isn't the FEC doing anything to stop it? What does Citizens United even mean? Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy of the Brennan Center for Justice has these answers and more. 

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USA Basketball announced the roster for the 202021 Tokyo Olympics on June 21st. 12 incredible women from (not quite) across the WNBA's deep talent pool.

Notably absent? 2012 #1 Draft Pick, 2012 Rookie of the Year, 2016 WNBA MVP, and 2020 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament MVP, Nneka Ogwumike. How could someone with those credentials (and that's not even her full resume) be left off? Who "took" her spot? And how can clarity be added to the selection process?

Full disclosure: Nneka is the homie, but the internet agrees with me so I'm right.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: NNEKA DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONVERSATION. ALL THOUGHTS ARE OUR OWN. I DID NOT QUOTE NNEKA IN THIS CONVERSATION AT ANY POINT.

Devereaux Peters airing USA Basketball all the way out: https://twitter.com/MsPeters14/status/1407099988388286466?s=20

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Inspired by a tweet (I probably spend too much time on Twitter), I wanted to understand why health insurance doesn't extend to our eyes and teeth, why the US doesn't have a more robust public health system (thanks racism), how healthcare and drugs got to be so expensive (thanks Bob Dole), and what healthcare looks like in a "post-COVID" world. 

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The US banking system is dominated by a few large players whose only mandate is to maximize the value for shareholders. And like many long-standing institutions in the US, it has frequently left poor people and people of color on the outside looking in via bad legal policy and bad corporate decision-making.

But what if the US had a national system with a focus on serving the economic and social needs of every community? I'm chatting with Kent State Professor Mark Cassell to explore the German public savings bank and what a similar program might look like in the US.

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I hate the phrase Daddy Day Care. So I reached out to Professor Jide Bamishigbin from Cal State Long Beach about how being an involved dad can lead to fewer incidents of depression in new dads, the obstacles new dads face, and what changes he would enact to make it easier for dads to bond with baby. 

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Inspired by a tweet from journalist and pride of Shaker Heights, Wesley Lowery, my friend Lesley Gwam and I dive into Beyoncé's discography to determine if she's ever released an R&B album. Come for the nuanced conversation. Stay for the bad jokes.

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Are women's sports boring and unprofitable or does sexism influence investing, coverage, merchandise, TV deals, and more? 

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More about David: David Berri is professor of economics at Southern Utah University who has spent the last 25 years researching sports and economics. He is the lead author of "The Wages of Wins" (Stanford Press, 2006) and "Stumbling on Wins" (Financial Times Press, 2010). In addition, he is the sole author of "Sports Economics", a textbook with Macmillan Publishers (2018). He is also a co-author of a book called "The Economics of the Super Bowl" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Beyond these books he has authored or co-authored more than 70 academic papers. This work covers a wide variety of topics in sports economics including the evaluation of players and coaches, competitive balance, the drafting of players, labor disputes, college sports, and gender issues. This last issue is the primary focus of much of his recent research and writing. In the past, he has written on the subject of sports economics for a number of popular media outlets, including the New York Times, the Atlantic.com, Time.com, Vice Sports, and Forbes.  

In 2019, I read The Death of Adjunct, an eyeopening account from Adam Harris about Dr. Thea Hunter, a highly educated black woman "trapped in academia’s permanent underclass". 

I turned Professor Aaron Hanlon to understand how what happened to an adjunct, non-tenure track faculty like Dr. Hunter could even happen, what it means for students, what it means for other professors, and consequences for the future of knowledge and learning. 

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In his First Address to a Joint Session of Congress in April 2021, President Joe Biden cited a report that 55 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax. Some after a year of record-breaking profit. I read the report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and sat down with Executive Director Amy Hanauer to break down how Nike owes less in federal income tax than I do, how justice flows from equitable tax policy, and what the Biden administration is doing to fund our government.

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Connect with ITEP: https://twitter.com/iteptweets Read the report: https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-tax/

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More about Amy: Amy Hanauer joined ITEP in 2020, bringing nearly 30 years of experience working to create economic policy that advances social justice. Prior to joining ITEP/CTJ, Amy founded and developed Policy Matters Ohio, opened a Milwaukee office for the think tank COWS, helping place women in unionized manufacturing jobs, and in the early 1990s, worked for Wisconsin State Senator (now U.S. Rep) Gwendolynne Moore’s office, defending the safety net for Wisconsin families.

Amy holds multiple leadership posts at the national level, including as a board member for both The American Prospect and Demos Action. She received her Master of Public Administration from the Lafollette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell University.