Alex Colvin, dean of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), is an expert on issues related to collective bargaining, arbitration and dispute resolution.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Labor Relations & Human Resources

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Richard T. Clark is a political scientist who studies policymaking at the World Bank. He describes the objectives as bolstering the Bank’s budget, reorienting lending to tackle climate change, and competing with China on infrastructure spending.

International Reach

International

Economics and Business

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Starting in November, Google will require political ads to label the use of artificial intelligence.

Law and Policy

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Silicon Valley elites have unveiled their vision for the utopian city they hope to build on 55,000 acres in Solano County in California.

Economics and Business

Law and Policy

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States are trying to find ways to keep child-care centers afloat after billions in pandemic-era funding is set to run out this month, prompting worries that facility closures could impact workforce participation and limit children’s access to early education. Justine Modica, an expert on the history of childcare labor in America, and Cathy Creighton, co-author of a 2022 report on New York State’s child care industry, are available for interviews.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Labor Relations & Human Resources

Industrial and Labor Relations

Arts and Sciences

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David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University specializing in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis. He says Putin’s turn to North Korea is a sign of the resource intensive nature of the war in Ukraine.

International Reach

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Social media platform X plans to collect user biometric, employment, and education data as a matter of policy. 

Computing & Information Sciences

science

Engineering

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Raymond Craib, professor of history at Cornell University with a focus on modern Latin America, is author of The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile. He says the search for remains isn’t the only effort underway by the Chilean state.

Arts and Sciences

International

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Nicolas van de Walle is a professor of government with special focus on the democratization of Africa; and the politics of economic reform. He notes the coup is surprising given that Gabon has been a stable civilian dictatorship since independence, with firm control over the military. 

International Reach

Arts and Sciences

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Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner whose research focuses on climate adaptation and land use policies in hurricane prone regions of the country, comments on Hurricane Idalia and climate planning in Florida.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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