Elizabeth Sanders, professor of government at Cornell, studies economic regulations and political parties’ alignment. She says that disagreement on tax reform – as in the case of health care reform – is an indicator of how the Republican Party is split between two distant bases and headed toward a significant shift.

Arts and Sciences

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As people gear up for the holiday season, picking the perfect Christmas tree is high on many families’ to-do lists. But as awareness of climate change and its impacts has increased, some may be wondering about how to honor a beloved tradition while still reducing its overall carbon footprint. Cornell University experts, Daniel Weitoish and Brian Eshenaur, offer tips on how to strike a balance by picking and planting, the right tree.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

New York State

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Cities along the eastern U.S. are preparing for blizzard conditions with Winter Storm Grayson. Mark Wysocki, a meteorologist who specializes in forecasting and weather analysis at the Northeast Regional Climate Center, details the major winter storm to impact the East Coast over the next 72 hours.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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In 2017, New York state maple producers made over 750,000 gallons of maple syrup, making New York the second largest maple producing state. With this year’s maple season underway, Stephen Childs, the Cornell Sugar Maple Program Director and a New York state maple specialist, says producers can look forward to a great 2018 season.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food & Agriculture

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Today’s scheduled meeting between Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Trump at the White House will take place amid a general chilling of relations between the two countries.

Arts and Sciences

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Riché Richardson is an associate professor of African American literature in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. She says today, like 50 years ago, athletes can impact political and social change.

Arts and Sciences

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Thomas Hirschl, co-developer of the poverty risk calculator, an expert in income insecurity and professor of development sociology at Cornell University, says that President Trump’s proposed tax cuts will not reduce poverty.

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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David A. Bateman, an expert in American political development, political parties and ideology and assistant professor of government at Cornell University, says that President Trump has compounded problems for congressional Republicans by agreeing to a bipartisan deal on the debt ceiling with Democratic leaders.

Arts and Sciences

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that public schools will not fully reopen for the upcoming school year. New York City students will return to school on a limited basis with only one to three days a week of in-person education and remote learning the remainder of the days. Noliwe Rooks, expert in cultural and racial implications for education says Mayor de Blasio needs to immediately outline plans for supporting low-income Black and Latinx children, and their families, who will be greatly impacted by this plan.

New York City

Arts and Sciences

Industrial and Labor Relations

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On Sunday, Italians will go to the polls to choose their next parliament. Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology at Cornell University and an expert on the history and development of populism and fascism in Europe, weighs in on this momentous election. 

Law and Policy

International

Arts and Sciences

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