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Radhika Balakrishnan

@rbalakra.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus Rutgers University

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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@rokhanna.bsky.social believes in overturning Citizens United and banning Super PACs and explains why you should too #mostlyeconomics
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Listen to this re who Jeffries is meeting!! youtu.be/U-xT3ilk51c?...
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Chris Christie Unloads on the Kushners in Interview with The Fifth Column
YouTube video by The Fifth Column - A Podcast
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
prospect.org/2025/12/03/f... “Why was an economist who made mistake after mistake treated like a seer by these institutions? The answer, I think, is that if you are the American oligarchy, Larry Summers is exactly who you want making economic policy for Democrats.”
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Former Economist Larry Summers - The American Prospect
The American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckon...
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
theconversation.com/larry-summer...
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Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women
In 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women.
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
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Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The gov't doesn't have the exclusive power to (mis)interpret the law, the people can give it meaning too under the principle of popular sovereignty. The law doesn't treat protests ag immigration raids as a "rebellion" & I explain why (and provide signs!). youtu.be/bIEhD2hw2oM
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Protest is Not Rebellion
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
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Business and Human Rights Centre @business-humanrights.org · 01/09/2025
🚨Under 2 weeks to go! Don't forget to register for our flagship panel discussion: the Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2025. It’s online and free to attend. This year we'll be tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time: accountability of Big Tech. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's small comfort or help to have predicted all this so accurately, but here we were naming "autocratic capture" several years ago and now the WH is assigning companies "loyalty ratings." (that story in the reply) protectdemocracy.org/work/desanti...
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What is autocratic capture? DeSantis's war on Disney, explained
DeSantis’s attacks on Disney in Florida use a process called autocratic capture and mimic democratic erosion around the world.
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tulsi Gabbard once blasted Trump for being a warmonger and protecting al-Qaeda
That was when she was a founding fellow of the Bernie Sanders Institute.
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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Tulsi #Gabbard - revisionist? Ask Susan Sarandon. In 2019 Gabbard sounded off against #government #corruption and #lies, at #BernieSanders’ Institute with lefties, Susan #Sarandon, Ben Jealous, Radhika Balakrishnan, Jim Zogby. She’s revised her entire persona since. Her credibility is ZERO.
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Tulsi Gabbard, in 2019, on Government Corruption and Lies
YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Maria Farmer is a strong inspiring survivor of Maxwell and Epstein’s abuses. She’s right when she says pedophilia is not a partisan issue but rather a societal problem. We need to give a voice to the victims who want to testify and trust them. We should not rely on an abuser to know what happened.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/07/2025
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
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INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
What counts as work & what doesn't? 🤔 Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=I6xNW6K_RG0
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What is Work? [Nancy Folbre]
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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ILO Live - Special Session: Normative Frameworks for Social Justice
Held under the auspices of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, this high-level session will explore how normative frameworks—anchored in international labour standards and rights-based economic p...
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
America's superrich emerged in two phases: predatory finance followed by quasi-monoplies based on network effects paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...
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Inequality, Part IV: Oligarchs
The rise of mega-fortunes
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 20/05/2025
Our capital gains tax system seems complex, but it boils down to this: The more profitable an investment proves to be, the lower the effective tax on the gains that investment generates. "You could not design a more regressive tax system," writes @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:
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America's Most Regressive Tax Levy: Our Tax on Capital Gains - Inequality.org
Our capital gains effective tax rate shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge that’s driving America’s wealth concentration.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Just open, brazen, persistent, shameless grift and corruption and conflict of interests:
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Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump
The president’s older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing deals, many of which will financially benefit their father.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is a thousand times more of a threat than the economic devastation we’re all reasonably enough distraught about out. The constitutional order as we’ve known it is hanging by a fraying thread that trump is holding a straight razor to with no one even reaching to withdraw his hand.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE. Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands. #FightOligarchy (🎥: Bastian Brauns)
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
International migrants are the largest source of international aid. This is an often underappreciated benefit of migration for global poverty reduction.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
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Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through.
Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds
Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Via Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com China is cracking down on economists who say negative things about the economy. Can I say that it's *extremely* easy to imagine the Trump administration following a similar path?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. Thank you for being one of the remarkable people who demonstrated that what's often thought of as time for retirement is when some among us reach their prime. Thank you for your feminism, your advocacy for Palestinians, your hands-on Habitat for Humanity work....
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
May he rest in power! Let’s keep his legacy alive by working for the issues he cared about!
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUJe...
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Geopolitics and Globalization: A Feminist Reading and Critique from Southeast Asia
YouTube video by Focus on the Global South
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Radhika Balakrishnan @rbalakra.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
sph.cuny.edu/research/srj...
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A Global Feminist Partnership: From 16 to 365 Days of Activism to End GBV - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
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