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Stephen Yale-Loehr, says the CDC order to partially lift Title 42 for children is a good first step, but more needs to be done for migrant adults.

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Matt Marx, professor of entrepreneurship, comments on the Biden adminstration's executive order asking the FTC to examine non-compete agreements. 

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, comments on the failure of the U.S. Senate to extend an immigration program that offers benefits for both U.S. companies and foreign investors. 

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Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says that current trends favor right-wing leader Marine Le Pen, and victories for her party in regional elections would cause French politics to “do somersaults.”

International

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Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School, says while the changes proposed by the Biden administration would indicate progress, the only lasting way to fix the immigration system is through Congress.

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Valzhyna Mort, professor in Cornell University’s English department, is a poet born in Minsk, Belarus and comments on the arrest of Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich. 

International

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Uriel Abulof says the recent escalation in violence between Israelis and Palestinians resulted in part from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to elevate ultra-nationalists and racist leaders.

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Joe Margulies, professor of law and government, says the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s case underscores that police should only respond to calls requiring an armed officer.

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This week, Malawi’s Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty ordering the re-sentencing of at least 37 people known to be under a death sentence. Sandra Babcock, director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and a partner in the Malawi Resentencing Project, has worked on capital cases in Malawi since 2007. She calls the ruling “historic,” and adds that Malawi has now joined the growing ranks of abolitionist countries where high courts have concluded that the death penalty violates the right to life.

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David Shmoys, professor in computer science, says advances in data science can make the algorithms used to parse U.S. Census Bureau data more equitable. 

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Computing & Information Sciences

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