Desirée LeClercq, professor of employment law and an expert on labor provisions in trade agreements, comments on the first U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Arthur Wheaton, an expert on the automotive industry at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, comments on President Biden's proposed $174 billion investment in electric vehicles.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Industrial and Labor Relations

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On Monday, AT&T announced a $43 billion deal to merge its content unit, WarnerMedia with rival Discovery. The merger, still pending regulators’ approval, signals a change in AT&T’s years-long strategy of combining its communications networks with content production and distribution. Aija Leiponen, professor at the SC Johnson College of Business and an expert in telecom industries, says that AT&T’s reversal validates what observers have been witnessing in recent years: that telecom ownership of content business is not a value added.

Economics and Business

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Luis Schang says the benefits of returning to a more open society now outweigh the marginal risk of vaccinated people not wearing masks and distancing.

Life Sciences & Veterinary Medicine

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In the U.S. alone, the hard cider market has increased more than tenfold in the past decade and Gregory Peck, assistant professor of horticulture in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has been exploring ways to increase the quality and quantity of New York-grown cider apples.

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

New York State

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On Thursday, Coinbase Global, Inc. is slated to report earnings as a public company for the very first time this week. Mani Sethuraman, assistant professor at the SC Johnson College of Business, studies corporate communication and its impact on markets.

Economics and Business

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Uriel Abulof says the recent escalation in violence between Israelis and Palestinians resulted in part from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to elevate ultra-nationalists and racist leaders.

Law and Policy

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Sarah Kreps, a professor of government and expert in technology, international politics and national security, comments on the role, independence and oversight of Facebook's own Oversight Board. 

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Ian Kysel, Maria Cristina Garcia, and Chiara Galli comment on President Biden's significant increase to the refugee cap and efforts to reunite migrant families as part of the administration's immigration strategy.

Law and Policy

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Jerel Ezell, professor of Africana studies and an expert in health disparities and social inequality in post-industrial communities, comments on the Senate approval of a bipartisan, $35 billion bill to upgrade the country’s water infrastructure.

Arts and Sciences

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