Booker’s speech: A retreat from the ‘acquiescent liberal elite’ and an embrace of ‘good trouble’
Prof. Alexander Livingston comments on Senator Corey Booker's historic 25-hour speech.
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Engaged Opportunity Grants fuel community-engaged learning for students
Seven projects are receiving a boost from the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants, awarded two times a year by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to teams of faculty or staff and their community partners.
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Legality unlikely to sway public opinion about executive actions 
Don’t expect a broader backlash against President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders simply because they may rest on shaky legal ground, new Cornell research suggests.
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Klarman Fellow headed to Yaddo residency
Eraldo Souza dos Santos will work on their next book project, “Everything Disappears,” a family memoir and meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil.
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Cornell scholars address global threats to democratic institutions
The Brooks School Center on Global Democracy hosted “Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats,” a hybrid event that attracted 120 participants and was streamed live from Goldwin Smith Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
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Your March 2025 reads
This month’s featured titles include a debut novel and a nonfiction book about the comedy troupe Firesign Theater, both by A&S authors.
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Cornell expert: EPA regulations rollback will reduce quality of life
Rolling back these regulations will reduce the quality of life for everyday Americans, says Talbot Andrews, who studies policy design and the changing environment.
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Jane Bennett to deliver Culler Lecture in Critical Theory
Bennett, a founding scholar of the field of new materialism, will talk about the limits of “data” as the unit of humanistic study.
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