“They want to fight it here like they did in California. It’s part of a national change of how you define full employment,” says Patricia Campos-Medina, co-executive director at The Worker Institute.

“Just like animals, investors herd in the face of danger or uncertainty by following the strongest in the pack,” says Scott Yonker, associate finance professor. “For investors, this means pouring money into recent ‘winners.’”

Sergio Garcia-Rios, assistant professor of government and Latino studies, says that President Donald Trump’s efforts to cast Democrats as socialists may have been crucial in Florida. “That mobilized a lot of Cuban Americans.”

Gustavo Flores-Macías, associate vice provost for international affairs and associate professor of government, writes this opinion piece about lessons that can be learned from Latin American democracies. 

Robert H. Frank, professor of economics, writes this opinion piece about how cuts to the Internal Revenue Service budget are likely to result in increased lost revenue.

Natalie Mahowald, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, says that if the U.S. does more to limit carbon pollution, other nations will follow. "In terms of leadership, it will make an immense difference."

“These spiders are a gold mine of information that have just gone untapped for a really long time,” says study coauthor Jay Stafstrom, a postdoctoral researcher in neurobiology and behavior.

“The figure for estimated GDP growth in the third quarter will be dramatic, and will have absolutely zero effect on the election,” says Christopher Way, associate professor of government.

The article features two new apples co-created by Susan Brown, professor of horticulture.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff co-writes this opinion piece with Jack Lipton, a colleague from the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, calling for the creation of a U.S. Biomedical National Guard that would create a corps of federally directed research institutions and scientists to supply biomedical expertise and lab infrastructure during disasters such as the one we are in now.

Laurent Dubreuil, professor of literature, writes this opinion piece about how cancel culture converged with Islamist extremism in the murder of Samuel Paty, a middle-school teacher in a Paris suburb, by a Chechen refugee.

Tyler Valeska, postdoctoral associate at the Law School, says, “It’s irrelevant whether the general public would not find it controversial. One value the First Amendment protects is dissent. We don’t want the government telling people what something means to them when and for what reasons.”