“[Chen’s audience abroad] see him as someone who can help build bridges between China and foreign countries, and in part, that might be what the government finds threatening about him, because they don’t want those bridges to be built,” says Eli Friedman, associate professor in the ILR School.

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of trade policy, predicts what China’s economy will look like in the coming years.

“This glacier went from doing basically nothing to doing something very unusual – evolving into an ice stream,” says Matthew Pritchard, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.

Andrew Farnsworth, research associate in the Lab of Ornithology, is senior author of this study finding that warmer climates have birds returning earlier in the spring.

Eli Friedman, assistant professor in the department of sociology, discusses the Chinese construction industry’s reliance on subcontractors.

The article draws on the work of Lawrence Glickman, professor of American studies, on using consumption as a political statement throughout history.

“It’s increasingly clear that fossil fuel production has dramatically increased global methane emissions,” says Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology.

Gustavo Flores-Macías, associate professor of international affairs, discusses the new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

“I think there is a distinct possibility that (impeachment) won’t have much impact on the electorate,” says professor of American studies Glenn Altschuler. “I don’t think independent voters in November of 2020 will cast their votes based on how they think an impeachment inquiry and trial was conducted.”

Sarah Kreps, professor of government and adjunct professor of law, provides comments on the documents released by the Washington Post containing admissions by U.S. government officials that the government misled the public about failures in the war in Afghanistan.

“Privacy is one of the defining problems of our times,” said Emin Gün Sirer, associate professor of computer science.

“We weren’t quite sure what her celebrity hinged upon, but it hinged upon her self-brand,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor in the department of communication. “She was engaging in a model of strategic self-promotion before self-branding became something that everyone did. Now we take this for granted. ... She was doing this a decade before the rest of us.”