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.
Government scholar Paul Lushenko: U.S. political officials have learned from the incident of a Chinese high-altitude balloon able to gather intelligence.
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.
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.
Government professor Kenneth Roberts: Extensive trade and investment relations has established China as an increasingly important economic power in Central America.
Cornell scientists working with the U.S. Department of Energy have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene using a novel catalytic approach.
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.
Countries have long used balloons to extend intelligence collection though more sophisticated technologies have replaced them in recent years, says drone researcher Paul Lushenko.
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.
The United States is expanding its presence in Southeast Asia with an agreement to establish four bases in the Philippines, as part of an Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Professor Thomas Pepinsky says the deal is a major development in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.
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."
Government professor Jessica Chen Weiss: "I hope that both leaders will come prepared to test the proposition that the two governments could begin a range of discussions in areas of shared concern and explore potential terms of coexistence.”
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.
Co-host Liz Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics: "In every interview, we heard stories that we hadn’t expected and learned something new about each other and about the field."
Six American Sign Language (ASL) poets and storytellers will visit Cornell between Oct. 12 and Nov. 28, in conjunction with this semester’s ASL Literature course.
