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<p>Nancy Aronson Chilton ’82 told students to be willing to take risks, during a recent campus visit.</p>
Read more<p>Nancy Aronson Chilton ’82 told students to be willing to take risks, during a recent campus visit.</p>
Read more<p class="p1">In a surprising move, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy dropped out of the race for Speaker following John Boehner’s resignation. <a href="http://bit.ly/ZMAORt">Elizabeth Sanders</a>, an election expert and professor of government, says McCarthy’s exit could make it harder for the G...
Read more<p><a href="http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio_joe_margulies.cfm">Joseph Margulies</a>, civil rights attorney and professor of government and law, comments on the Justice Department’s decision to release 6,000 inmates. He says the move is a step in the right direction, but adds that it doe...
Read more<p>Governments have been known to lie and while sometimes the lies are small, other times they can be large. As social scientists explore why governments lie, <a href="http://bit.ly/1MXtCsA">Andrew White</a>, a professor of <a href="http://bit.ly/1BQWL3s">government</a>, explains in this <a href="ht...
Read more<p>When David S. Cohen ’85 was a student at Cornell, he was active in the Peace Studies Program as president of the Cornell Civil Liberties Union. He helped negotiate agreements between Cornell officials and apartheid protestors and stood on the steps of Willard Straight Hall to support ROTC members...
Read more<p><a href="http://bit.ly/1KEwTqI">Jessica Chen Weiss</a>, associate professor of government, is interviewed in this <a href="http://nyti.ms/1L8SFbG">New York Times Q&A</a> about Chinese President Xi Jinping's brand of nationalism and how that has played out in China. </p>
Read more<p>An interdisciplinary team of Cornell scholars is collaborating on a new project, The Causes, Consequence and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States, supported by the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) and led by Peter Enns, associate professor of government.</p>
Read more<p><a href="http://bit.ly/TmIkzO">Allen Carlson,</a> associate professor of government, writes in <a href="http://http://bit.ly/1Kt4k1K">The National Interest</a> that China's major problem is how its government handles its own citizens, not how is handles neighboring countries.</p>
Read more<h2 dir="ltr">Kelsey Ross '15</h2><h3 dir="ltr">Major: Government <br />Hometown: Rochester, NY </h3><p dir="ltr"><strong>Why did you choose Cornell?</strong><br />My extended family is from the Ithaca area and I always imagined myself going to Cornell. When it came time to visit schools I fell in l...
Read more<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">“Those lacking jobs, education and resources are essentially voiceless in the [democratic] process,” Cornell's new president said. </span></p>
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