A&S Media Report 10/2/2026

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1,521 external media stories tracked
6 Cornell Chronicle stories
1 Internal Cornell platform
2 Cornell Daily Sun stories
1 Cornellians story
7 A&S website stories
1 Facebook post

Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences

The Summer Talk Show (French, video, begins 1:43)

Life TV
Related People: Naminata Diabate
Related Department or Program: Africana Studies and Research Center

Trump once called the national debt a ‘time bomb’ — he was right

The Hill and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Glenn Altschuler
Related Department or Program: American Studies Program

Films to watch for Orange Shirt Day, Sept. 30

A&S Communications
Related People: Kurt A. Jordan, Jeffrey Palmer
Related Department or Program: Cornell Cinema

Social Sciences

As Xi Leaves Washington, Divisions Still Simmer Beneath the Surface

New York Times and 7 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Allen R. Carlson
Related Department or Program: Government

New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Resigns After Sexual Harassment Complaints

Associated Press and 26 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Richard F Bensel
Related Department or Program: Government

Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.

New York Times and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Cyber Monday: AI, conspiracy theories, and the midterms (audio, begins 1:00)

NPR and 552 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Gordon Pennycook
Related Department or Program: Psychology

Tomorrow's route map for India's economy

Business Standard and 4 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

Arguments over taxing Washington State’s wealthy

New York Times
Related People: Cristobal Young
Related Department or Program: Sociology

Kaushik Basu: Is an AI-pocalypse inevitable? Not if we curb Big Tech’s concentrations of wealth

LiveMint and 3 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Kaushik Basu
Related Department or Program: Economics

This is a gift to ultra-nationalist China (Swedish)

Expressen and 2 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Magnus Fiskesjö
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

Is the world safer from AI risk after the Trump-Xi summit?

ABC and 12 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Nvidia's Jensen Huang Emerges as a Key AI Ally for Trump

The Hill
Related People: Sarah Kreps
Related Department or Program: Government

Taiwan Should Be Kept Off the Negotiating Table

The Diplomat
Related People: Allen R. Carlson
Related Department or Program: Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Trump's $500 Obamacare 'rebate' checks land in prime political battlegrounds

Reuters and 106 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Douglas L. Kriner
Related Department or Program: Government

The Best Popular-science Books of October 2026

New Scientist
Related People: Meredith Small
Related Department or Program: Anthropology

Jackson selected for Kluge Chair in Technology and Society

Cornell Bowers CIS
Related People:
Related Department or Program: Science and Technology Studies

Humanities and Arts

Cornell humanities society marks 60 years with archive and oral-history project

FingerLakes1
Related People: Durba Ghosh
Related Department or Program: History, Society for the Humanities

Standoff at historical N Ireland flashpoint (audio, begins 34:55)

BBC Radio and 20 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Sophie Pinkham
Related Department or Program: Comparative Literature

Meet the Veteran Broadcaster Who’s the Voice of MLB’s Colorado Rockies

Cornellians
Related People: Jack Corrigan ’74
Related Department or Program: History

Ancient texts offer timely lessons on speaking freely

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Critic and art historian speaks on art, architecture and democracy

A&S Communications
Related People: Mike Fontaine
Related Department or Program: Classics

Reeve Parker, professor emeritus of literatures in English, dies at 89

Cornell Chronicle
Related People: A. Reeve Parker, Cynthia Chase, Kenneth A. McClane
Related Department or Program: Literatures in English

25 books to read in October 2026 (French)

The Grand Continent
Related People: Nicholas Mulder
Related Department or Program: History

Taiwan takes a page from Ukraine’s playbook in steeling society for an invasion

Military Times and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: David Silbey
Related Department or Program: History

Half a century after Mao's death, fascination with the communist leader is on the rise

NPR and 649 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Peidong Sun
Related Department or Program: History

Techno-utopians want to build a city for the post-AI world — in Uruguay (Portuguese)

InfoMoney and 11 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Raymond B. Craib
Related Department or Program: History

Sciences and Math

Pollution on a planet could be the clearest clue that an alien civilization exists there. (Spanish)

Gizmodo en Español
Related People: Lisa Kaltenegger
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Exploring the solar system through Cornell’s image library

A&S Communications
Related People: Alexander Hayes , Zoe Learner Ponterio
Related Department or Program: Astronomy, CCAPS

Stanford chemist Song Lin named 2026 MacArthur Fellow for electricity-driven chemistry

Stanford Daily and 5 other media outlet(s)
Related People: Song Lin, Paul McEuen
Related Department or Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physics
 
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