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Quartz

Michael Dorf, professor of law, says, “Everybody in the know saw that question and thought at least one justice hoped to dodge a decision.”

Associated Press

“They seem to be in part about things that are hard to grasp, what it means that anybody can be a threat and you can be a threat to everybody,” says Cathy Caruth, professor of comparative literature.

The Wall Street Journal

“What could be a clearer signal that the safest place for asylum-seeking families is not (and, for that matter, never has been) in detention,” says Ian Kysel, visiting assistant clinical professor of law.

Associated Press

“I think we are going to see an epic lockup in the mortgage markets as people are going to be unable to make their payments,” says Louis Hyman, director of the NYC Institute for Workplace Studies. 

CNN

Nellie Brown, director of workplace health and safety programs at the ILR School, says, “mask requirement of customers would protect employees, as well as other customers."

South China Morning Post

“It’s the preventive medicine perspective – stopping problems earlier, rather than dealing with the consequences,” says Steve Osofsky, a professor of wildlife health and health policy.

Financial Times

“It is one thing to suspend immigration for certain categories of people, such as terrorists,” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “It is quite another to suspend all immigration. We have never done that before, even during world wars.”

Bloomberg Green

“Dairy producers and beef producers work off of very small margins, thus any investment would need to show a return,” says Michael Van Amburgh, professor of animal science.

The Wall Street Journal

“Frankly, employees already have an incentive to be productive, just by mere fact of wanting to keep their jobs,” says Ifeoma Ajunwa, assistant professor of labor relations, law and history.

The Washington Post

“You just see a very different world for Republicans in general than we do see for Democrats,” says Thomas B. Pepinsky, a professor of government and a co-author of the paper. “Democrats are more worried about it; they believe that the crisis is worse than Republicans believe it is. It’s sort of a clean finding all across the board.”

The New York Times

In this opinion piece, Drew Harvell, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, writes about how various marine life fight off pandemics.

NPR

"I think it's compatible to think both that it was sexist and that there's really some substance to those criticisms," says Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy. "And here, it's not that the criticism is illegitimate because it's sexist. It's that we're soft-pedaling the criticism, albeit unwittingly, when it comes to a male counterpart who's done something very, very similar."