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WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)
What’s at stake for education in the NC superintendent of public instruction race?
According to Dani Parker Moore, the director of the Schools, Education and Society minor at Wake Forest University, it’s a race to watch. “We’re in a perfect storm of thinking about public education,” she said. “A new governor, new superintendent, parents’ rights advocates bills, the expansion of vouchers to go to private schools, and our current governor has sounded the alarm that public education is under fire.”
March 4, 2024
Morganton News Herald
NC sheriffs’ ICE bill may ride coattails of Texas immigration debate
The N.C. House Republican quest to place the state on the side of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in the divisive immigration border dispute may carry a coattail effect for a controversial bill that would force all sheriffs to cooperate with federal ICE officers. The House letter may be to stoke the embers of immigration concerns among voters, potentially making it a front-burner election issue, said politics professor John Dinan.
March 4, 2024
High Point Enterprise
Voters have ultimate say today
“We are very likely to see some primary races going to a run-off,” said politics professor John Diana. For example, there are 11 candidates running in the GOP statewide primary for lieutenant governor and 14 candidates seeking the Republican nomination in the 13th Congressional District primary east of the Piedmont. “There are some high-profile candidates running in each race.”
March 4, 2024
Axios Charlotte
Wake Forest University and other North Carolina employers add onsite child care
Wake Forest University is adding an on-site child care center to its University Corporate Center at its Reynolda Campus in Winston-Salem, joining a national trend of employers trying to support and retain working parents. North Carolina is in the midst of a child care crisis that’s only gotten worse with the expiration of pandemic-era funding. Offering child care on site is not common, but it’s catching on among employers.
March 3, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Democrats in Triad’s 6th District feel left out with no one to vote for Congress
Politics professor John Dinan notes, it’s an unusually deep bench of candidates. “Sometimes you see four or five candidates in the race, and one or two has endorsements, name recognition, and money,” he said. “Here, we have at least four candidates in that race who have some significant source of support. Dinan says it’s easy to imagine that — with so many well-known Republicans in the race — none of them will be able to reach the 30% threshold needed to avoid a runoff.
March 1, 2024
Washingtonian
LGBTQ+ gun owners are breaching the right-wing arms bubble
Sociology professor David Yamane uses the term “Gun Culture 2.0” to describe this shift. His research shows that new gun owners are “more female, more racial minority, more urban.” People on the left have long had reasons to be fearful, Yamane said, but “what maybe is new is people saying, ‘Hey, how do I defend myself against this? Maybe I should get a firearm.’”
February 29, 2024
Substack
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad
Eric Wilson, English professor and author of “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy,” said we’ve changed the way we’ve diagnosed depression. “What once would’ve been categorized as normal sadness, like mourning the loss of a loved one, now if it lasts a little too long, it can be seen as clinical depression. We have a faster trigger finger for diagnosing someone as depressed.”
February 29, 2024
Science Magazine
Peru’s zoning amendment endangers forests
William Farfan-Rios, a researcher with Wake Forest’s Andrew Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability is one of the co-authors on this piece.
February 29, 2024
Transport Topics
Could free shipping be coming to an end for online shoppers?
As free shipping and returns becomes less available, consumers are likely to begin calculating whether an in-store purchase is a better deal even with a higher retail price, said marketing professor Roger Beahm. “Consumers will most certainly now consider the overall value of their online purchases more carefully relative to buying a comparable item in brick-and-mortar.”
February 29, 2024
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
What’s at stake for education in the NC superintendent of public instruction race?
Two Republicans and three Democrats are running for North Carolina superintendent — a role overseeing the state’s public education system. According to Dani Parker Moore, the director of the Schools, Education and Society minor at Wake Forest, it’s a race to watch. “We’re in a perfect storm of thinking about public education,” she said. “A new governor, new superintendent, parents’ rights advocates bills, the expansion of vouchers to go to private schools, and our current governor has sounded the alarm that public education is under fire.”
February 29, 2024
The Conversation
With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it. A teen from Oklahoma holds the Tetris title after he crashed the game on Level 157 and beat the game.
This article was picked up in outlets worldwide including Fast Company and the Washington Post.
February 28, 2024
Business Insider
Gen Z like ‘safety capitalism”
Christina Elson, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest University, told Business Insider that many young people had embraced an idea she calls “safety capitalism.” Elson said: “The issue is the bottom. What is the appropriate bottom living standard for an American citizen, and what role should the government have in ensuring that people don’t fall below that?”
February 28, 2024