Annelise Riles, professor of far east legal studies and anthropology at Cornell University and the founder and director of policy innovation platform Meridian 180, comments on President Trump's first trip to Asia.

International Reach

Foreign Policy

Law and Policy

Economics and Business

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Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University, explains that as renewable sources of energy like wind and solar gain traction, scientists and engineers are eyeing new ways to store that energy in a cost-efficient manner.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Engineering

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Authorities in Beijing have started an extensive 40-day campaign to inspect and demolish cheap housing in the city’s outskirts and forcibly evict residents, mostly migrant workers communities. Eli Friedman, a professor of international and comparative labor at Cornell University and author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China, says the evictions reveal the regime’s moral vacuum and cautions that if replicated in other cities, they could lead to a real humanitarian tragedy.

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Eliza Bettinger, the digital humanities librarian at Cornell University, says the case, Carpenter v. United States, is likely to have major consequences for law enforcement and personal privacy.

University Libraries

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Federal regulators plan to roll back stricter net neutrality rules, giving Internet providers the ability to determine the websites and online services their customers can access. Privacy expert Steve Wicker criticizes the latest move.

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Elizabeth Lamb, senior extension associate with the Cornell Cooperative Extension's New York State Integrated Pest Management program, offers advice for picking, preserving and eventually re-planting the perfect tree.

Food & Agriculture

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Nicole Martin, associate director of the Milk Quality Improvement Program, says that there are inherent risks associated with raw milk consumption in the wake of reports that a New Jersey resident became ill after drinking raw milk.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

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Mona Krewel, an assistant professor of government at Cornell University, comments on the possibility of snap elections and what that would mean for Germany and Angela Merkel's future.

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Stephen Wicker, engineering professor, says that by repealing net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission empowers a small number of already large firms to control how and at what cost consumers access internet content.

Engineering

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Amanda Rodewald, a professor of ornithology and director of conservation science at Cornell University, says the tundra swan, Pacific loon and northern pintail would be just a few of the more than 200 bird species at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that would be impacted by activities associated with oil development.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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