Prabhu Pingali, Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), has been named chair of the governing board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), an international organization focused on reducing hunger, poverty and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics.

"We’re not yet at the stage where we can diagnose exactly what went wrong with the polls in this cycle,” says professor of government Thomas Pepinsky. “I think it’s clear that the polling industry in aggregate is going to have to study the results because there are some big misses.” 

Johannes Lehmann, Professor at the School of Integrative Plant Science, Deborah Bossio, lead scientist at the Nature Conservancy, and Dominic Woolf, senior research associate at the School of Integrative Plant Science and at the Atkinson Center for Sustainability, write this opinion piece suggesting the formation of a platform to address the climate impacts of nitrogen

Robert H. Frank, Professor of Economics, writes this opinion piece about how cuts to the Internal Revenue Service budget are likely to result in increased lost revenue.
 

"When push comes to the shove the Chinese government has to first and foremost focus on regime security,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, Associate Professor of Government. 

Rachel Riedl, Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, said violence would be unlikely if the early results show [Joe Biden] in the lead by significant margins in multiple states. “Uncertainty would make violence that is promoted by Trump more likely,” Riedl said.

Gustavo Flores-Macías, Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs and Associate Professor of Government, writes this opinion piece about lessons that can be learned from Latin American democracies.

Polarized: Partisanship, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Democracy

Parties and movements have long provided a voice to U.S. citizens and connected them to the government, but these mediating roles are in flux. In their place is a more polarized "red" and "blue" America. This October 30 webinar from Democracy 20/20 examines how social movements and changes in the two major political parties are redefining American democracy.