Michael Dorf comments on the public-enforcement provision of the new Texas abortion law. Dorf likens the provision to formation of the Stasi, the communist-era secret police in East Germany. He says it will be “An East German-type society in which everybody is informing on everybody else.” 

“I think it's a reasonable decision in the midst of the pandemic, but yes, the elimination of unvaccinated people is likely to affect the makeup of the jury pool,” says Valerie Hans, professor of law. 

“Some of what he’s [Biden’s] doing has less to do with raw political calculations than it does with the fact that he thinks someone has to tear off the bandaid,” says David Silbey, adjunct associate professor of history and associate director of Cornell in Washington. “I don’t know politically sensible that is, but I do think that he believes it’s time to wrap this up and he’s willing to take the hit to do it.” 

“What is being built right now is almost impossible to take apart, in ways that support high-quality recycling and reuse,” says Felix Heisel, assistant professor of architecture. “The use cycles of buildings are getting shorter and shorter. So every building at some point will either be remodeled or taken down. We should be planning for the disassembly and reutilization of all in advance.” 

“Workers have more power to demand more rights, and unions have more power to demand more from employers like Nabisco,” says Patricia Campos-Medina, the executive director at The Worker Institute. “So, in a tight labor market, when society is more acutely aware of the value of essential workers, unions and workers have the power to demand more.”

New research out of the Lab of Ornithology finds that about 20% of female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds have bright feathers like their male counterparts – which saves them from being socially harassed. 

“At the current stage, I don’t think we will see broad vaccine requirements by hotels,” says Christopher Anderson, professor in the School of Hotel Administration. “At present not even all major hotel brands are requiring their employees to be vaccinated — let alone guests.”

New research out of the Lab of Ornithology finds that about 20% of female white-necked jacobin hummingbirds have bright feathers like their male counterparts – which saves them from being socially harassed. 

“The ability to complete a college diploma is a way to have a counter-narrative and say that you’ve done some work that allows you to prove yourself as someone who is trying to do good,” says Rob Scott, executive director of the Cornell Prison Education Program. “When [given access to education], you see people starting to change the way they think about themselves, their future, their family and their lives.” 

“The labor movement itself – and the workforce – is much more female than it ever was in the past, and so in that way, the AFL-CIO is finally reflecting what's happening in the rest of the world,” says Ileen DeVault, professor in the ILR School. 

“I strongly doubt sea stars will ever go completely extinct,” says Ian Hewson, professor of microbiology. “Nature has thrown many extreme conditions at them since they arose millions of years ago.” 

“Measured by hourly wages, hourly worker ‘power’ has increased substantially,” says Daniel Alpert, senior fellow in financial macroeconomics at the Law School. “Measured by hours offered to hourly workers in the lower wage sectors such as leisure and hospitality, retail, not so much.”