“This direct taking of control is something that we haven’t seen since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932,” says Tamara Loos, the chair of the history department. “It’s a slide toward something that is very different from his father’s behind-the-scenes way of operating.”

"Wow, he is walking away with a lot of money," says professor of law Stewart Schwab. "And it comes out as part of the story of just, wow, [the] 1% gets a lot more money than the rest of the workers in this economy."

“What the research shows is basically if you’re in a position of power over somebody else, you’re really bad at recognizing the power you wield over them and how hard it is for them to say no to you,” says Vanessa Bohns, an associate professor of organizational behavior at Cornell.

“We have to remember that automated hiring platforms are still created by humans,” says Ifeoma Ajunwa, professor of labor and employment law at Cornell. “The same biases that humans have would also be transferred to any platforms they create.”

"But this union is about the city of Chicago, and that is a sea change in terms of traditional collective bargaining," says Lee Howard Adler, a labor, criminal law and civil rights practitioner. "The union is not just negotiating for a better contract, it's negotiating for the common weal, which primarily consists of low-income folks."

Judith Peraino, Cornell professor of music, found a previously unreleased Lou Reed tape at the Andy Warhol Museum.

Art Wheaton says, “Public support for the UAW from the community was overwhelming – GM vastly underestimated the public support. Whether you want to attribute it to the UAW or the teachers’ strikes, I think we’ll continue to have a lot of strikes as long as the labor market is so tight and the jobless rate is so low.”

“You could see how different people who aren’t experts could look at the economy and reach different conclusions based on their partisanship,” says Peter K. Enns, associate professor in the department of government.

“I think Fiat Chrysler is going to be a tough one, said Art Wheaton, a labor expert at the Worker Institute at Cornell University. “Fiat Chrysler has a lot more temps than Ford.”

"AI can process huge amounts of information to tell us where the elephants are, how many there are," says Peter Wrege, director of the Elephant Listening Project. "And ideally tell us what they are doing."

Nicholas Sanders, assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology, writes this opinion piece about how for the first time in years, air quality in the U.S. has gotten worse.

“This is so much more data and it’s such a unique context that this kind of stands on its own,” says Michael Lynn, professor of consumer behavior and marketing, who was not involved in the study.