Media Relations Office

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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Salesforce, a leading cloud-based software company based in San Francisco, announced this week that it would allow its employees to “work remotely part or full time after the pandemic.” Bradford S. Bell says that Salesforce is not alone in suggesting hybrid work arrangements in the long term. He adds that such decisions carry important cost-saving and other benefits for companies with a significant real estate footprint, like Salesforce.   

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

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Steve Osofsky says there is much to be learned from the ways humans encounter new pathogens from wildlife.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

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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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Robert Hockett, professor of law, says the volatility introduced by the GameStop gambit will test the financial system and its protection of the 'real' economy. 

Law and Policy

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Linda Shi, an urban environmental planner and assistant professor at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, comments on a new U.S. strategy to help protect communities from climate disasters.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Robert Howarth, an expert on the greenhouse gas footprint of methane emissions, comments on the Biden administration's plan to ban new oil and gas leasing on federal land.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says that President-elect Biden’s inauguration ‘theater of unity’ will be more powerful than the violence of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Law and Policy

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David Sherwyn, professor of hospitality human resources and law, says the Airbnb cancellations in D.C. put the differences between rental platforms and hotels in stark relief.  

Economics and Business

School of Hotel Administration

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