By expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Biden administration is taking an important step to expand access to healthcare for DACA beneficiaries, says professor Jamila Michener.
Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.
Government scholar Sarah Kreps: The recent hearings on Capitol Hill and ongoing debates about a TikTok ban have shown how difficult it is to balance privacy concerns with core democratic principles of free speech.
… are central to the bilateral relationship. These include China’s militarization of the South China Sea, a recent visit by Taiwan’s president to the United States, and China’s potential theft of U.S. citizens’ data from the …
Professor Glenn Altschuler: results of the Tuesday election will affect the future of abortion and gerrymandering and shed key insight into constituent sentiment around judicial candidates.
… warned that the trip could have a ‘severe impact’ on US-China relations. Allen Carlson is an associate professor of … partners (Honduras), and just last year was targeted by China with a series of military exercises in retaliation for … trip. But, if Tsai is more muted in the coming days, then China is likely to simply up the volume of its criticism of …
Government professor David Bateman: "There is no historical precedent for one of the two major parties to nominate a candidate on trial or potentially convicted."
Bakhmut, Ukraine, by itself is not a particularly valuable piece of land for either side, says professor David Silbey, but Ukrainian control of it prevents a more general Russian advance northwest .
Fangming Cui, psychology, and Susannah Sharpless, English language and literature, are among eight doctoral students advancing to the final round of the 2023 Three Minute Thesis competition.
Government scholar Sarah Kreps comments on today's expected appearance of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Capitol Hill amidst app-related national security concerns.
… with the West. Jessica Chen Weiss is a professor of China and Asia-Pacific studies at Cornell University. Weiss … what he has called US efforts to contain and suppress China. However, he is also trying to reassure investors and stabilize China’s relationship with Europe, which helps explain China’s …
… scientists working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) … decompose, both in the lab and potentially in nature. The DOE team at Argonne National Laboratory performed the first … of iCOUP, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the DOE Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences at Argonne and …
… Tuesday a move to establish diplomatic relations with China, thereby severing relations with Taiwan. The switch … President Xiomara Castro is opening negotiations with China to establish formal diplomatic relations, thus … Central American countries in establishing relations with China. “Although Central America has historically been …
Professor Gustavo Flores--Macías: the United States has few diplomatic options to push back on the Mexican government’s changes to electoral laws, which protestors claim threaten democracy.
Perspective from professor Rachel Beatty Riedl on the “opportunity of historic turnover" as Nigerians will head to the polls Feb. 25 for a fiercely-competitive presidential election.
Gravitational waves produced from colliding black holes interact with each other, producing nonlinear effects – “what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash.”
Hailing from Cremona, Italy, the birthplace of the violin, Quartetto di Cremona will perform works by famed Italian composers Boccherini, Puccini, Respighi and Verdi.
A doctoral candidate in government from central Florida, Torres-Beltran studies how women’s political participation is influenced by gender-based violence and interactions with state institutions.
… balloons to collect intelligence abroad, despite what China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims. That China apparently does use high-altitude balloons to spy on … to the renewal of great power competition, as reflected by China’s militarization of the South China Sea and Russia’s …
Professor Joseph Margulies says that while President Biden was right to call for police accountability in the State of the Union address, we all share responsibility for police culture.
New York Representative George Santos has told GOP colleagues that he is temporarily stepping back from his congressional committee assignments. Steve Israel, professor of government and policy at Cornell University and a former congressman, can speak to the ramifications for Santos’ constituents.
Scholar Paul Lushenko says this attack, which Iran blames on Israel, suggests that the ongoing proliferation of drones has resulted in distinct patterns of strikes.
Meta will be reinstating former president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks; Cornell government scholar Alexandra Cirone weighs in on extremism and governing online content moderation.
Professor Kristen Warner responds to the 11 awards nominations for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with caution: "we are still on an incremental set of progressions that can still only favor one racial group at a time."
… profiled Jessica Chen Weiss, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the College of Arts & … " A Professor Who Challenges the Washington Consensus on China ." "Weiss has emerged as a kind of loyal and measured … to a rare case of bipartisan consensus in Washington—that China must be countered at all costs," writes Ian Johnson in …
… terms of coexistence. Weiss says: “At a time when both China and the United States face significant domestic … to begin to stabilize the escalatory spiral in U.S.-China relations. “Both Xi and Biden have an interest in …
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Lushenko, senior policy fellow at Cornell's Tech Policy Lab, comments on the announcement of the inclusion of the MQ-9 Reaper in a U.S. defense aid package to Ukraine
Concerns about violence are growing as Election Day in the U.S. nears, says scholar Mabel Berezin: “The expectation of violence at the polls this year signals how much has changed in the American electoral landscape since 2018."
Prof. Richard Clark comments on U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry's call for the World Bank and other multilateral institutions to expand financing for low-carbon projects in developing countries.
The United States is calling for a United Nations Security Council briefing regarding news that Russia is using Iranian drones for its war on Ukraine. Paul Lushenko, doctoral student and co-editor of "Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society,” comments.
Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced she will resign after 44 days in office. Cornell University professors discuss what’s next for the United Kingdom and the European Union.
