As Florida moves to end vaccine mandates, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questioning Thursday from a Senate committee on his vaccine stance.

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David Shoemaker, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University who studies the moral psychology of humor, says that political satire—long a staple of late-night TV—plays a critical role in democracy, cutting through partisanship and exposing hypocrisies that traditional news often can’t.

Arts & Humanities

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Lilly Jan, senior lecturer of food and beverage management at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, says the chain faced a number of limiting concepts, and failures to adapt. 

Economics and Business

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

School of Hotel Administration

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Andrew Wolf, an assistant professor who studies the gig economy at Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations, says that while the ruling is good news for gig workers, the door is still wide open for similar infractions to occur.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Economics and Business

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Christopher Anderson is a professor of operations, technology and information management,  and an expert in the hospitality and airline industries. Despite its unpleasant reputation, he says Spirit’s bankruptcy is bad news for consumers.

Economics and Business

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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Federal officials have accused Russia of using right-wing American influencers to spread Kremlin propaganda ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Cathy Creighton is director of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and a former field attorney for the NLRB. She says the renewed partnership comes as the labor movement braces for anticipated attacks from the federal government under president-elect Donald Trump.

Industrial and Labor Relations

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

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David Silbey is a professor of history at Cornell University, specializing in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis. If true, he says the news amounts to more of a political statement than a military one.

International

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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Egypt has been certified malaria-free – an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as historic.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

International

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OpenAI is reportedly working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board. The news comes after longtime chief technology officer Mira Murati announced she was departing the company.

Law, Government & Public Policy

Economics and Business

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