CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is a Rich Jerk

"Imagine if we turned to LeBron James, a truly great basketball player, to get advice on how best to deal with global warming. LeBron is a smart guy, but no one would expect him to have special insights into dealing with global warming, in spite of his incredible skills on the basketball court. In the same vein, why would anyone think that Zuckerberg would know or care about how Facebook should be run in a way that protects democracy?" writes Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C. (Nov. 6th, 2019)

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Women in Tech and Business Suffer because of the American Myth of Meritocracy

"Entrepreneurship is an area where the myths and realities of the American meritocracy come to a head. In the U.S., women own 39 percent of all privately owned businesses but receive only around 4 percent of venture capital funding. Put another way, male-led ventures receive 96 percent of all funding," writes Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Brown University (Oct. 30th, 2019)

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Investigations usually hurt a president’s public reputation – but Trump is hardly ‘usual’

"Investigations often damage a president’s reputation in the public eye – but that may not matter to a historically unpopular president like Trump," write Douglas L. Kriner, Cornell University and Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley (Oct. 30th, 2019)

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