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On Point (WBUR-FM)
Essential trust: How healthy skepticism builds trust
Julia Jordan-Zachery, chair of women, gender, and sexuality studies participated in this program. “In part of my research as a political scientist, I talk about Black women’s hesitant hope, which is this interesting combination of both trust and skepticism. And it’s very grounded in data. But how do we understand data? Data is sometimes understood differently depending on the communities that we’re talking about.”
December 1, 2022
The Conversation
Resounding success of ‘Black Panther’ franchise says little about the dubious state of Black film
When Marvel Studios released “Black Panther” in February 2018, it marked the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to feature a Black superhero and star a predominantly Black cast. Its estimated production budget was US$200 million, making it the first Black film ever to receive that level of financial support. Would it lead to more big-budget Black films? Media studies professor Phillip Lamarr Cunningham explores this question.
December 1, 2022
Reuters
Alabama case over mistaken pregnancy highlights risks in a post-Roe world
Law professor Meghan Boone and Benjamin McMichael, an economist and professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, analyzed the impact of Tennessee’s 2014 fetal endangerment law – which expired two years later – in a 2021 paper. They found “consistent evidence” that outcomes worsened under the law.
December 1, 2022
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
For many in the Latino community, Soccer is a unifying force
“Soccer is what gives them a sense of their identity, right, like their Latino identity,” explains politics and international affairs professor Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, who specializes in sports activism. “In the United States people don’t care about soccer that much but I mean, in Latin America soccer is life. If you know your soccer team is playing, you are throwing parties. You are excited for weeks on end if they win, or depressed for weeks on end if they lose.
December 1, 2022
The Charlotte Observer
Supreme Court’s ‘independent state legislature’ case: How we got here, and what’s next
Law professor John Korzen spent 45 pages in one brief arguing that a win for the legislature would make elections much more expensive in the future, and also much more confusing. Some valid ballots might be accidentally thrown out, he wrote, even as other ballots that should’ve been thrown out might get accidentally counted. “Voters need reassurance that election procedures produce accurate results. The more complicated and complex the system is, the more voters will question an election’s integrity.”
November 27, 2022
Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Abortion advocates aim to outflank lawmakers in 2024 using ballot measures
Nationwide, 6 in 10 Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a June 2022 poll by the Pew Research Center. “Constitutional amendments have been underappreciated,” said politics professor John Dinan. “People tend to focus mainly on state litigation. But constitutional amendments are a far more durable way to ensure abortion rights than any court actions.”
This story also appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
November 26, 2022
Greensboro News & Record
For retailers, a lot is riding on this holiday shopping season
With Thanksgiving on the calendar a little earlier than normal this year, and with many brick-and-mortar retailers remaining closed on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday weekend “takes on more significance this season than in the recent past,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest University School of Business. “Consumers remember well the restraint they had to endure through COVID and subsequent supply-chain shortages,” Beahm said. “As a result, they are now showing a desire to exercise newly gained shopping freedom. This momentum should be sufficient to carry through the upcoming holiday shopping season.”
November 24, 2022
Spectrum News Charlotte
College students repurpose food for meal donations
Ahead of Thanksgiving, students from the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University used food that would otherwise be thrown away and community donations to make hundreds of meals for nonprofits across the Winston-Salem area.
November 23, 2022
Equitable Growth
Promoting sustainable U.S. economic growth and mitigating climate change
The estimated hundreds of thousands of green jobs created by both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are crucial for creating more equitable economic growth. In a recent paper, E. Mark Curtis of Wake Forest and Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennsylvania develop a measure of green jobs—specifically, occupations in the solar and wind energy fields—and find these jobs benefit workers.
November 22, 2022
Carolina Journal
Happy 233rd Birthday Old North State
Colleges and universities serve a vital role in the state, including UNC Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, NC State University, Wake Forest University, and Duke University.
November 21, 2022
The New York Times
Cigars, booze, money: How a lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous
During a commission hearing in 1998, one of the panel’s commissioners guesstimated illegal sports gambling at $80 to $380 billion dollars. “The number is pretty much pulled from the air,” said economics professor Koleman S. Strumpf, who has studied illegal gambling.
November 20, 2022
bakadesuyo.com
How to be happier without really trying
Barking Up the Wrong Tree looks at philosophy professor Emily Austin’s book, “Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life.”
November 20, 2022