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Inter-American Dialogue
Featured Q&A: What will Kast’s tax overhaul mean for Chile?
“Tax reform has remained high on Chile’s political agenda since the collapse of former President Gabriel Boric’s reform effort, leaving unresolved questions about how to finance public spending while restoring the country’s sagging economic growth," said politics professor Peter Siavelis. "Kast’s bold ‘mega-reform’ proposal is a forceful effort to counter his bruising poll numbers and reverse the negative public narrative surrounding his presidency."
July 26, 2026
Vox
Could you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?
Could you accidentally gamble away your right to vote? In a 2012 paper, economic historian Paul Rhode and economist Koleman Strumpf wrote that betting on elections was “commonplace” since the US’s earliest years as a nation, but that it became “especially intense during the partisan conflicts of the Jacksonian era.” Newspapers, which in those days were mainly partisan, championed the practice.
July 25, 2026
The JO Ai
Wake Forest launches AI initiative
Wake Forest University is launching an AI for Human Flourishing initiative. The initiative aims to guide the thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence across teaching, learning, research, and administrative work. The university appointed William Fleeson as Associate Provost for AI Initiatives to lead the initiative.
July 25, 2026
Forbes
New research: Why fools are more influential than liars
Psychologists John Petrocelli, Elijah Rice and Joseph Curran ran three experiments on roughly 800 undergraduates total, testing what happens when people are repeatedly exposed to false claims from sources described as either liars or as people with no regard for whether what they’re saying is true, sometimes called “BS-ers” in the academic literature. The research confirms that we let people off the hook if they don't care about the truth, but we don’t do the same for liars. What the new study adds to the conversation is an account of how much this costs us.
July 24, 2026
Forbes
What is a K-shaped economy and how it can affect your financial future
In a K-shaped economy, people in the lower economic portion who depend on wages, not on investments, are more vulnerable to conditions. Finance professor Deon Strickland said the 1950s and 1960s were the “heyday of the American experience in terms of labor,” meaning wages. Since then, “capital has been good, but labor, not so good."
July 24, 2026
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Winston-Salem arts icons honored at Memorial Walk of Fame
The 2025 inductees include pioneering public radio figure and former Wake Forest University communication professor Julian Burroughs. Burroughs spearheaded the effort to secure WFDD’s broadcast license and North Carolina’s first NPR charter membership. His daughter, Rosalind Tedford, is director of research, instruction, and outreach at ZSR Library on the Wake Forest campus. "He loved this city, he loved Wake Forest, he loved the arts, and to have his work recognized in this way, I think he’d be, as he used to say, tickled pink," she said.
July 24, 2026
Generations Today
Music-response drawing: A daily practice for people aging with Parkinson’s disease
Wake Forest is running an NIH-funded study, IGROOVE, examining which elements of musical and movement engagement—rhythm, social interaction, cognitive challenge—most improve brain health in older adults at risk for neurodegenerative disease. For program directors, wellness coordinators, and caregivers working with older adults with PD, music-response drawing offers something rare: an intervention that costs nothing, requires no equipment beyond what most households already have, and can be taught in a single conversation.
July 23, 2026
The Athletic
What Ryan Fox’s victory at the Open Championship can teach us about the science of belief
Kenneth Kishida, a neuroscience professor at Wake Forest, has spent the last two decades studying how the human mind processes narrative and how expectations can alter our subjective reality. In recent years, his focus has shifted to studying dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain that is largely known as the pleasure chemical. “Teaching the brain what leads to the ultimate goal or the ultimate outcome is key to what dopamine seems to be doing,” Kishida said.
July 23, 2026
The New York Times
Shooting ranges go quiet luxury
There is some precedent for the upscale gun club, said sociologist David Yamane, drawing a comparison to exclusive 19th-century establishments often centered around hunting, “it wasn’t just a matter of could you afford to join, but were you the right kind of person,” he said. “A $6,000 pistol is not necessarily 10 times better than a $600 pistol,” he added, “so you’re buying it for something other than just functionality.”
July 22, 2026
Foreign Policy Magazine
Trump needs to defy history to end the Iran war
"When U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to the memorandum of understanding with Iran in mid-June, he promised to broker a final deal that will “bring peace and security to the whole region.” Since then, however, negotiations have stalled, fighting has resumed, U.S. sanctions have been reimposed, and U.S. warships have once again blockaded Iran. In short, we’re back to the same stalemated war we thought we were done with a month ago," writes politics professor Will Walldorf.
July 21, 2026
New York Times
Pilgrimage sites tend to lie at the edges of the world. Eranda Jayawickreme, a psychology professor at Wake Forest University, took students hiking up Sri Pada, a sacred mountain in Sri Lanka. Other readers shared plans to uncover family histories in Terga, Algeria; in Tokyo; and on Ellis Island.
July 19, 2026
Nine Network
These new platforms aren’t technically gambling â but you can still lose millions
“We can create very specific markets on very fine topics that we don’t have any other forecasts on, and this could be something about an election that’s not a very big one, like a local election…something along those lines,” prediction markets expert Koleman Strumpf said. He argues the people who get the most benefit from the sites are not their users or even the owners, but independent third-party observers who can use them to forecast or see what topics are gaining importance.
July 19, 2026