Mona Hatoum’s psychological surgery
While the artist’s career has consistently invited interpretation based in institutional critique and real-world tumult, it is equally constructive to consider her work from a psychological, rather than political, vantage.
Instead of focusing on diversity on campus, we need to focus on equality
While for the past 50 years many elite private K-12 schools and universities have embraced the inclusion of black students, the presence of these students has only just begun to destabilize the culture of white supremacy and racism on which these schools were founded.
Why Republicans don’t push back on Trump’s China tariffs — in one map
Our research suggests that Republican attitudes on trade have been evolving — long before Trump’s China-bashing presidential campaign. We believe that Capitol Hill’s silence on free trade isn’t simply because Republicans are cowed by Trump or reluctant to alienate his supporters.
What Proposition A is really about
This week Missouri voters will have a chance to weigh in on an issue that has generated overheated rhetoric – and bundles of dollars – from both sides. Proposition A, the state’s “right to work” bill, is on the August ballot.
Appleton wins Dukeminier Prize
Susan Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, has been awarded a Dukeminier Prize from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law for her writing on family law.
Brown School doctoral students receive social work fellowship
Alexandra Morshed and Roger Wong, two doctoral students at the Brown School, have been named 2018-19 NASW/CSWE Social Work HEALS Fellows.
Brown School launches PTSD course
This fall, the Brown School will launch its second post-master’s certificate program with a collaborative teaching approach that will emphasize research-backed interventions, hands-on learning and advanced concepts helpful in treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
Southern Baptists, gender hierarchy and the road to Trump
It is no exaggeration to say that one of the most consequential political events of the 20th century was the conservative/fundamentalist resurgence/takeover in the Southern Baptist Convention. Whether you think it was a good thing or a bad thing, time is showing its broader import and influence to be vast.
If the Supreme Court is nakedly political, can it be just?
Assaults on judicial independence are made easier when the public comes to view the judiciary as a political body. This risk, and not just the identity of the next justice, should be at the center of public attention.
It’s time to dismantle TIFs as tool of segregation
We have gotten skilled in this region at dropping the term “racial equity” when politically expedient. It is time to back that language up with some action on tax incentives. The growing number of St. Louisans who care about racial equity can tell the difference between empty rhetoric and tangible results.
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