In Brexit’s latest twist, Britain’s opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn told his party he would back plans for a second public vote on Brexit should parliament reject his party’s attempt to prevent a no-deal Brexit on Wednesday.Alexandra Cirone, professor in Cornell University’s department of government, says that while there are precedents to multiple referendums to resolve a single issue, Corbyn’s suggestion of a People’s Vote at the final hour may create more problems than it solves.

International

Arts and Sciences

Law and Policy

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Aija Leiponen, professor at Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, comments on the possibility of a AT&T-Time Warner merger and its impact on consumers.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Computing & Information Sciences

Law, Government & Public Policy

Washington D.C.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

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Andrew Moisey, assistant professor of art history and visual studies at Cornell University explains what museums and galleries can learn from the #MeToo movement.

Arts & Humanities

Arts and Sciences

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Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology, comments on the impact Hurricane Michael will have on migrating birds.

Lab of Ornithology

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner and assistant professor in architecture, art and planning, and Claudia Lazzaro, professor of art history and visual studies, comment on historic flooding in Venice.

Architecture, Art and Planning

Arts and Sciences

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November 9th will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a 155 km-long concrete barrier that separated the city for almost three decades. While traces of the wall are still scattered around Berlin’s neighborhoods, the cold-war ideological divide between the Eastern and Western areas of the city has all but disappeared.

International

Arts and Sciences

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Sidney Tarrow, professor emeritus of government and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University comments on the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, which occurred 50 years ago June 5.

Arts & Humanities

Law, Government & Public Policy

Arts and Sciences

Law School

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Allen Carlson, associate professor in Cornell University’s Government Department and director of the China and Asia Pacific Studies program, says the midterm election results indicate identity politics will drive attitudes toward China in the coming years.

Law and Policy

International

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Swedes will go to the polls on Sep. 9 to elect a new parliament in a historic contest characterized by the rise in popularity of the Sweden Democrats, a nationalistic anti-immigrant party. Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says that long held nationalism in Sweden explains the rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats.

International

Law and Policy

Arts and Sciences

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The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments next week in a case that pits the federal government against Microsoft in a clash over the privacy of emails stored abroad. The case originated in 2013 when Microsoft refused to comply with a federal government warrant requesting access to emails stored in Ireland that were linked to a drug trafficking investigation.

Law and Policy

Engineering

Computing & Information Sciences

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