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Cornell University experts are available to weigh in on Congress taking up either Biden's immigration wide-ranging bill or smaller pieces of legislation, offering historical, legal and labor perspectives.

Law and Policy

Industrial and Labor Relations

Arts and Sciences

Law School

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Sital Kalantry, professor of law at Cornell University, says that censoring social media is just one of several troubling developments related to the Indian government’s recent crackdown on free speech.

International

Law and Policy

Law School

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Sarah Kreps, technology, international politics and national security expert, and Nathan Matias, algorithm and digital technology scholar, comment on Facebook's announcement that it will begin limiting political content on its newsfeeds.

Arts and Sciences

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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As protesters in Myanmar continue to rally against the military coup that reversed last November’s election, members of the United Nations are renewing their efforts to address the crisis. Magnus Fiskesjö, says that in claiming election fraud, generals seem to have taken a cue from recent events in the U.S.

International

Arts and Sciences

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Ian Kysel, professor of law and co-director of the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, comment on President Biden's new immigration executive orders.

Law and Policy

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Sarah Besky says causes for ‘mystery illnesses,’ especially in marginalized areas, are hard to identify given the multiple risk factors that are a part of domestic life in these regions.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

International

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Kenneth Roberts says the Venezuelan election results this week illustrate the Trump administration’s failure to elevate political alternatives, and that the country’s ongoing crises will land on President-elect Biden’s foreign policy plate. 

International

Law and Policy

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Uriel Abulof says the dissolution measure proposed by Israeli lawmakers is puzzling given that Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is simultaneously blamed by Israelis for mishandling the pandemic but also doing well in polls.

Law and Policy

International

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With the weekend’s resignation of its interim president, Peru plunged into a constitutional crisis that Kenneth Roberts, professor of comparative and Latin American politics at Cornell University, says is much more than just another cycle of political instability for the country. 

International

Law, Government & Public Policy

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Protests are spreading in India, where farmers are rallying against new agricultural laws that they say will undermine their livelihood and benefit big corporations.  Sarah Besky, associate professor in the ILR School at Cornell University, studies labor relations with an emphasis on farming and the tea industry in India. She is available for interviews about the economic dynamics underlying the current protests.

Law and Policy

International

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