“People do not recognize how much of what we pay for in our meals is not the physical food,” says Chris Barrett, professor of applied economics and management and senior author of the study. The piece syndicated widely. 

“It's the wait-and-see approach,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and director of the Cornell Tech Policy lab. “I think they're hoping this can just resolve itself with him not being kind of an influential voice in politics anymore.” 

Elizabeth Berliner, associate clinical professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses obstacles animal shelters are facing amid pandemic recovery. 

In this opinion guest essay, assistant professor of history, Stephen Vider, and Bronfenbrenner Center postdoctoral associate, David S. Byers, argue that the Supreme Court Case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia threatens 50 years of advances to support L.G.B.T.Q. youth in the foster care system. 

Daniela Hedwig, research associate in the Lab of Ornithology, says, “African elephants can serve as a really cool study system for the evolution of complex communications systems, including our own language.” 

“The jobs that remain unfilled in the economy are collectively concentrated amongst 45 million jobs that we’ve been overly dependent on that pay $750 a week or less,”  says Daniel Alpert, senior fellow in macroeconomics at the Law School.

A new study co-authored by Harry Kaiser, professor of applied economics and management, finds that even a slight grocery tax-rate increase could lead to food insecurity for many U.S. households.

Natalie Bazarova, associate professor of communication, contributes insight from her research on how social media users shared personal information during the pandemic and advises users to be mindful of how much they share.

“I don’t think a conventional explosive debt crisis is in the cards,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy and the former head of the International Monetary Fund’s China division. “A better way of looking at it is … somebody has to pay for all this, and who’s going to pay for it? Ultimately, it is going to be the taxpayer.” 

James Grimmelmann, professor at the Law School and Cornell Tech, says that tech companies “really have to make deeply political choices” as they are caught between activist free speech and governments attempting to stop unrest and violence. 

“It has always been the military’s strategy to hide the mass crackdown there, the mass killing of the protesters,” says Van Tran, PhD in the department of government

George Hay, professor of law, says that it’s “hard to imagine any basis for blocking the deal.”