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The Atlantic

“Misogyny is the law-enforcement branch of patriarchy,” says Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy.

Los Angeles Times

Eli Friedman, associate professor in the ILR School, says that the Chinese government’s Uighur labor program is an attempt to “kill two birds with one stone: the first bird being so-called counter-extremism, and the second one, the labor shortage problem.”

The New York Times

The article references a paper by Suzanne Lanyi Charles, assistant professor of city & regional planning, about real estate investment trusts’ ownership of single family homes.

Marketplace

“People have a very strong reaction to it,” says Dana Radcliffe, senior lecturer of management and organizations about price gouging. “They feel that they’re being taken unfair advantage of. So that’s going to reflect upon the platform.”

USA Today

“Panic buying is a self-fulfilling prophecy," says Karan Girotra, professor of operations. "If everyone thinks things are going to run out, they go and buy out things and they do run out.” 

The New York Times

“Women and people of color, those are the workers most likely to organize,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner, senior lecturer in the ILR School. Unions “have to be strategic and work with their community allies. And the L.G.B.T.Q. community, particularly the people of color in the L.G.B.T.Q. community, are often very good allies.”

MarketWatch

“Right now, every company that is handling food, that is delivering food, right now go over these things with your workers,” says Elizabeth Bihn, executive director of the Institute of Food Safety. “Don’t wait until you have a bunch of people contaminated.”

Marketplace

“To be honest, one year of flat earnings growth doesn’t matter a whole lot,” says Scott Yonker, associate professor of finance. “It’s when you have big negative earnings growth that things matter. In ’07, ’08, that was the financial crisis. We saw earnings decline by 40%.”

The Washington Post

“There are indirect ways you can access it, but it’s not easy to find out,” says Alexander Colvin, dean of the ILR School, about accessing information on which companies require arbitration for employees.

Associated Press

“This outbreak will have a significant effect on worldwide demand for tourism, travel, and other services, while the supply chain disruptions and increased uncertainty will hurt current production as well as investment,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of applied economics. “The timing of the outbreak is especially unfortunate ... Europe and Japan are flirting with recession while China and India had been losing growth momentum.”

The Wall Street Journal

“I have never seen this happen before—that they force someone to convert back to Chinese citizenship, for the convenience of the regime,” says Magnus Fiskesjö, associate professor of anthropology.

The Wall Street Journal

“Developing robotic technology for human spaces is a much, much harder problem than navigating on Mars in some ways,” says Guy Hoffman, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.