Jacob Anbinder, a Klarman postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, researches how America’s most progressive cities become unaffordable for a significant portion of the population and the housing politics of prosperous metro areas. He says New York has a fundamental housing need: new homes now.

New York State

New York City

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Michael Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and lead author of Our Changing menu: Climate change and the foods we love and need, comments on the climate stresses facing cacao and chocolate production.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

International

Economics and Business

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Jesse LeCavalier, an expert in infrastructure planning and a professor of architecture, Paul Mutolo, a chemist and director of External Partnerships for the Energy Materials Center, Rick Geddes, professor of policy analysis and management and founding director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy and Art Wheaton, an expert on transportation industries and director of labor studies, comment on the Biden administration's new infrastructure plan for electric trucks.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Allison Koenecke, assistant professor of information science at Cornell University, studies fairness in algorithmic systems and says this is a good first step.

Google has begun to roll out restrictions in India regarding the types of election-related queries for which its chatbot Gemini will return responses.

Computing & Information Sciences

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Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Cornell Tech

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As the 2024 U.S. presidential campaigns heat up, both camps are watching closely for gaffes from the two presidential frontrunners, in an effort to discredit the other over age and psychological capacity, but complaints about Joe Biden have been more vague and there is no evidence of dementia onset, no ‘sun-downing, says Cornell University expert Harry Segal.

Law and Policy

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With majority of opposition leaders in prison or abroad, Russians are preparing to vote in a presidential election that is unlikely to bring significant change. Bryn Rosenfeld is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University and studies post-communist politics and public opinion. She suggests that after the election, we can expect the announcement of an unpopular policy.

International

International Reach

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Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture at Cornell University, says now is the time to start planning for indoor plantings if you want to prepare transplants for your vegetable garden this year.

Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. He focuses on gender inequality alongside other dimensions of social inequality, including sexual orientation and race. He argues that the success of the French abortion rights vote underscores the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms.

International

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