“U.S. efforts to punish China could backfire badly,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, government.

Miguel Gomez, associate professor of food marketing, comments, USDA programs and their impact on food supply chain structure.

The pandemic has shown that municipalities that own their utilities are more likely to protect residents from water shutoffs. 

Karl Pillemer, professor of human development, comments that the current pandemic offers a low-risk opportunity for outreach to ask, "how are you doing?"

Saule Omarova, law, talks about what a new financial institution could like to be prepared to weather crises, in Why Is This Happening? podcast.

In an opinion piece, Kaushik Basu writes that humans are bad risk assessors and during a pandemic, disastrous policy mistakes can be made.

Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and policy, says that what matters is that CIPS, an interbank messaging system that eases international payments in yuan, is available, even if majority of SWIFT’s membership doesn’t utilize it.

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised difficult questions at the intersection of science and policy.

Stephen Hilgartner, professor of science and technology studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as a grant from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) for an ambitious research project on COVID-19 policies across different countries.

Leaders at every level of government—national, local, even university—face difficult decisions as they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ifeoma Ajunwa, assistant professor ILR, law, and history, comments on limitless worker surveillance.