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The Washington Post

“These companies have tremendous power and are reaping tremendous rewards from the creator economy, but they don’t provide the mechanisms of support that a traditional workplace would,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication. “The job is profoundly individualized and precarious. The fact is, it’s all on you.” 

Associated Press

“The more eruptions that we study, the more we are going to understand how they behave,” says Esteban Gazel, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. 

The Washington Post

“The Supreme Court will uphold the Mississippi 15-week ban,” says Sherry Colb, professor of law. “It will say that it is not overruling Casey because it does not need to reach the question, since a 15-week ban does not impose an undue burden. That statement will be at best manipulative and at worst dishonest.” 

Fortune

In this op-ed, Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, and Nicole Hassoun, a former Einaudi Center visiting scholar, argue that global health leaders must adopt a treaty on pandemic preparedness and response and that it must prioritize new incentives for pharmaceutical companies and equity between nations.

The New York Times

Sherry Colb, professor of law, says, “The ability to breathe is essential for life, but it is not the sort of thing to which we attach moral status, any more than the ability to see or to walk or to speak are such abilities.” 

Bloomberg Law

“This is an extraordinarily rare occurrence, to use a state court to stop picketing during a strike,” says Cathy Creighton, senior extension associate in the ILR School. 

The New York Times

Todd Schmit, associate professor of applied economics and policy, says, “If we can agree that access to broadband is a public good — for educating our children, for access to health care, for expanding business opportunities — there should be a defensible basis for government assistance in funding the operations of those programs. But I think that’s a harder story to tell.” 

The Independent

Joseph Margulies, professor of practice in law and government, says the cases around the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery are similar in that they involve the “convergence of citizen’s arrest, open carry gun laws and stand your ground.” 

CNN Business

Gen Z have "seen opportunities for their generation disappear and are afraid they are going to be worse off than their parents,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of Labor Education Research and a senior lecturer at the ILR School, about why Gen Z is unionizing.

BBC

This piece features the work of Vanessa Bohns, associate professor in the ILR School, on the idea that people are often far more likely to cooperate with our requests than we assume. 

The New York Times

Valerie Hans, professor of law, explains that the jury is likely using a meticulous, evidence-based approach due to the amount of time that has passed and their request for video evidence.

Newsweek

“I expect Biden to run again, but that's because I expect that from all presidents who’ve run and won,” says David Bateman, associate professor of government. “That said, Biden, like most of the political leadership of this country, is old—he’s older than any other president was when they took office. That alone should give pause to what would otherwise be a slam-dunk prediction that he would run again.”