As the world warms, permafrost is thawing across two-thirds of Russia, writes Sophie Pinkham, professor of the practice in comparative literature, in a New York Times opinion piece.
Kate Manne writes that “food noise,” ubiquitous on social media, is a rebrand of some of the most basic human drives: hunger, appetite, craving – and she argues that we should resist this reframing.
Ideology in China is itself malleable, rather than a rigid cage that determines policy, government professor Jessica Chen Weiss writes in a New York Times opinion.
Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, discusses employer panic, America's poverty addiction and the messy politics of work on the Ezra Klein Show.
In a New York Times op-ed, Stephen Vider considers the possible repercussions of the Supreme Court's decision, expected this month, on Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case that asks whether the city of Philadelphia can bar Catholic Social Services from screening future foster parents.
<p> Belarusians took to the streets this week to reclaim their dignity, writes <a href="https://english.cornell.edu/valzhyna-mort">Valzhyna Mort</a>, assistant professor of English, in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/opinion/belarus-protests-violence.html">op-ed in the New York Times</a>. The government of Belarus, she says, has responded with brutal violence.</p>
<p> From Hillary Clinton’s surprise loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election to the failure of the Democratic Party to choose a female candidate for 2020 despite an abundance of qualified women, the past few years have been disappointing to those who believe a female president is long overdue, writes Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/biden-vice-president-woman.html">New York Times op-ed</a>.</p>
<p> While Latin America is realizing the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic, a storm is brewing over the region, writes Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, associate vice provost for international affairs and associate professor of government, in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/es/2020/06/15/espanol/opinion/coronavirus-democracias-latinoamerica.html">op-ed in the New York Times</a>' Spanish edition.</p>
<p>Former Congressman Steve Israel, director of the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/trump-impeachment-congress.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur">writes in the New York Times</a> that he sees political rationalization at work among today's representatives.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A New York Times article highlighted key takeaways from a recent lecture on campus discussing the future of American democracy from a comparative government standpoint. </p>
<p>Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and author of "The Joy of X," explains the origin and meaning of pi in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/science/pi-math-geometry-infinity.html">New York Times op-ed</a>. </p>
<p><a href="http://government.cornell.edu/suzanne-mettler">Suzanne Mettler,</a> The John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, writes in <a href="https://nyti.ms/2NBC9E6">this New York Times opinion piece</a> about President Trump's efforts to rebrand various social programs as "welfare."</p>
