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Lucy Patalano '27 co-wrote a post for the Cato Institute on Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Donald Trump, and their agreement that the United States should repeal the federal debt limit.

Phil Levine, an economist who studies financial aid, said competitive incentive won’t stop aid offers from declining but it will be difficult for institutions to maintain what they’re currently doing.

Psychology professor Stephen Chen’s study found the more Americanized children in Chinese immigrant families are, the less likely they understand their parents’ Chinese ways of expressing affection.

Economics professor Phillip Levine writes: “A giant endowment-tax increase is coming. Whether it merely hampers or severely burdens affected institutions seems to be the only remaining question.”

Ye Tong Yuan '25 worked on a study with MIT researchers, bringing potential downsides of ChatGPT use to light. The research found the brains of people who used ChatGPT were less engaged than others.

Relying on ChatGPT significantly affects critical thinking abilities, according to a study conducted by researchers from MIT Media Lab, Wellesley College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

A team of researchers, led by MIT Media Lab research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna and including Wellesley’s Ye Tong Yuan '25, studied what happens when people use ChatGPT to write an essay.

Narges Bojoghli ‘04, anthropology/middle east studies professor at John Hopkins: “The most ardent proponents of regime change in Iran may be accelerating the very nuclear program they claim to fear.”

Historian Kellie Carter Jackson joins CBS Mornings to explain the origins of Juneteenth and how it fits into the broader story of Black resistance, as explored in her new book, “We Refuse.”