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E&E News
Inside the Project 2025 plan to gut climate regs
It’s generally harder for an agency to justify standards if their costs exceed their benefits. Stan Meiburg, a former EPA acting deputy administrator now head of Wake Forest’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability, said the Reagan-era move to embrace cost-benefit analysis gave cost considerations the upper hand. “Costs are specific and tend to be more quantifiable, and benefits tend to be more diffuse and less quantifiable, even though, in aggregate, they are larger.”
July 18, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Political experts discuss Republican messaging as RNC wraps up in Milwaukee
Politics professor John Dinan said one of the RNC’s key themes has been unity among Republicans.“The fact that the party seems so unified, that’s going to be a big boost to the party going forward. Republicans are naturally feeling very good about the convention they’ve had and, in contrast to that, the division and the difficult discussions going on inside the Democratic Party,” he said.
July 18, 2024
Mirage News
New research by Wake Forest economics professors Tommy Leung and Koleman Strumpf examines front-page editorial bias in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Leung and Strumpf examined more than 100,000 articles alongside data from 22 million tweets to determine if editorial bias or consumer demand determined the length of time an article remained on the front page.
July 17, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Wake Forest researchers find lack of competition contributes to news bias
A new study from Wake Forest University suggests a lack of competition among news outlets contributes to media bias. Economists Tommy Leung and Koleman Strumpf looked at stories on the websites of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. They used an artificial intelligence tool to calculate the political leanings of tens of thousands of articles published between 2021 and 2023. The results show more biased stories tended to stay on home pages longer – even when less slanted stories received the same amount of reads and social media attention.
July 17, 2024
Scientific American
See why everyone gets the Monty Hall Puzzle wrong
Social psychologist John Petrocelli had participants play the Monty Hall game over and over, allowing them to repeatedly observe that the prize is more often behind the “switch” door—but it took many trials for these participants to learn that they should be switching. He then ran the test with a series of coin flips. How long would it take you to notice that the coin was biased and landed heads-up 2/3 of the time instead of 1/2? “Most people think they would start to recognize that after about 40 flips. But they don’t,” Petrocelli said. His research has attributed this lack of learning to what he calls “kick-in-the-pants” thinking, or counterfactual thinking.
July 16, 2024
Beckman Foundation
Beckman Foundation appoints President Wente to Board of Directors
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has appointed Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente to its Board of Directors. Located in Irvine, California, the Beckman Foundation supports researchers and nonprofit research institutions in making the next generation of breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences. “It is an incredible honor to have Dr. Wente join the Beckman Foundation Board of Directors,” said Andrew Lyon, chair of the board of directors for the Foundation.
July 15, 2024
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
Local experts weigh in on security concerns after assassination attempt
“Throughout American history, it’s been all too common of presidential assassinations and efforts to target presidential candidates,” said politics professor John Dinan. “Security concerns and the failed assassination attempt at Donald Trump will dominate the convention in a way that they were planning on talking about all kinds of policy issues and leadership issues. It’s not only that he survived, as crucial as that is, it’s the way that he acted in the immediate moment,” he said. “There will be some iconic footage, photos and video played of how he reacted.”
July 14, 2024
Triad Business Journal
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist expanding services in East Winston-Salem
Winston East will add internal medicine, women’s services and on-site lab, pharmacy and imaging to the existing pediatric and occupational medicine services. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is expanding services in East Winston-Salem to better meet the needs of the community.
July 14, 2024
The Conversation
Donald Trump wants to reinstate a spoils system in federal government by hiring political loyalists
If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would give him the authority to fire as many as 50,000 civil servants and replace them with members of his political party loyal to him. Under this plan, if he eventually deemed those new employees disloyal, he claims he could fire them too. The United States has tried such a plan before.
July 12, 2024
The Economist
Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
In the early 20th century, for brief periods, the most frenetic American trading pits were not the raucous markets in which stocks were traded, nor the venues where bonds were exchanged. The real action was in the market for betting on the next president. “Crowds formed in the financial district…and brokers would call out bid and ask odds as if trading securities,” write Wake Forest economist Koleman Strumpf and co-author University of Michigan economist Paul Rhode.
July 11, 2024
Amery Free Press
Wisconsin constitutional amendments seek more power for Legislature
Politics professor John Dinan, author of “State Constitutional Politics: Governing by Amendment in the American States,” said constitutional amendments are commonly used in divided-government states such as Wisconsin. “It may seem unusual to see amendments being advanced for the purpose of bypassing gubernatorial opposition or insulating policies from state court reversal because we don’t see similar amendments advanced at the federal level.”
July 11, 2024
Greensboro News & Record
Harris to visit Greensboro today as more plead with Biden to step aside
After the news conference, FOX8 spoke with Wake Forest University professor Nate French, who said that even though the president stumbled, he was coherent. “If his administration wanted to display competence, I think he’s done that. He’s displayed competence, and he’s displayed competence as an old man. He’s not going to be younger, and he’s really clear on that. He’s not going to lose 40 years, and he seems to be stepping into that space that he’s an older statesman.”
July 11, 2024