“These orders are going to be discriminatory in impact and on their face, meaning in their text, because in the order they explicitly singled out migrants and asylum seekers,” says Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, professor of law.

Estelle McKee, professor of immigration law, recounts her experience representing an El Salvadorian man with schizophrenia who was deported after being denied Convention Against Torture relief.

“It’s not that one piece of content is going to be devastating; it’s the collective, scaled approach to inauthenticity that’s the problem. People can do this at scale now. It can look like massive numbers of citizens are supporting a particular issue when they’re not,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government.

“It is perceived as an extraordinarily high level of dysfunction in an economy that provides the largest number of safe assets to the world," says Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy, "and is in principle seen as the most important cog in the global financial system.”

Robert Hockett, professor of law and finance, discusses the national debt in this opinion essay.

Eli Friedman, associate professor at ILR, discusses the factors leading to the marriage decline in China.

Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy and economics, joins CNBC to discuss China's economy.

In the Behind the Money podcast, Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law, discusses Sergei Leontiev who fled Russia and seeks asylum.

Tamara Loos writes in Foreign Affairs about a new governing coalition in Thailand.