At the age of 90, California Senator Dianne Feinstein has died, but age alone should not dominate the decision for older politicians to resign says Cornell University professor emerita Elizabeth Sanders. 

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Elizabeth Sanders says that Cory Booker leaving the presidential race won’t diminish voter turnout, and that the junior Senator from New Jersey has a bright future for another presidential run. 

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Richard Bensel, professor of government at Cornell University, predicts that Joe Biden will win Iowa, in part because the Iowa Caucuses structure encourages voters to switch candidate preferences. Elizabeth Sanders says that this primary season is round two in the struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.

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Environmental activists kicked off two weeks of protests on Monday in London, Berlin and other cities to demand that governments adopt a more radical approach to climate change.

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Americans will vote this week in the 2018 midterm elections after a campaign season marked by a record number of women candidates, intensified attention to migration at the border and a continued emphasis on identity politics. The following experts from Cornell University are available for interviews.

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Elizabeth Sanders, professor of government at Cornell University who studies American political development, says a Green New Deal could succeed, but will likely dissipate without risk-takers and creative funding solutions.

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Elizabeth Sanders, professor of government at Cornell, studies economic regulations and political parties’ alignment. She says that disagreement on tax reform – as in the case of health care reform – is an indicator of how the Republican Party is split between two distant bases and headed toward a significant shift.

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Glenn Altschuler, professor of American studies at Cornell University, says the two-party system, unlike the general US population, is becoming less diverse and therefore less effective.

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