Mid-decade redistricting may be new norm
The Missouri Legislature has passed a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps, potentially handing a Democrat-leaning seat to Republicans and giving Republicans a 7-1 district advantage. Partisan mid-decade redistricting, once very rare, could become the new normal, says an expert on voting rights at Washington University in St. Louis.
90 Seconds to Midnight
A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey
90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thought-provoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a 13-year-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has […]
Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone
Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem
The story of how Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, has become synonymous with nature conservation — and an examination of today’s challenges to preserve the region’s wilderness heritage.
Forging a Mexican People
Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968
Forging a Mexican People shows how illustrated print culture helped to construct and deconstruct versions of “a people” in postrevolutionary Mexico.
Polarization around vaccine hesitancy was 12 times greater than past outbreaks, study finds
Political polarization has consistently influenced public reactions to disease outbreaks in the United States, from polio to COVID-19, according to a comprehensive new study by Caitlin McMurtry, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Weidenbaum Center fall series kicks off Sept. 4
From politics on college campuses to the economy and AI, the fall events series presented by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis will address many of the most pressing policy issues facing America and the world today.
Sadat named to eyeWitness to Atrocities board
Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at WashU, has been appointed to the board of eyeWitness to Atrocities, founded by the International Bar Association.
Opt-in enrollment could undermine Trump Accounts’ policy goals
Using a “check-the-box” opt-in process to open federally funded Trump Accounts for children will likely exclude millions of eligible families — and undermine the program’s promise to promote lifelong asset building, finds a new policy brief from the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
Brown School training program funding renewed, continues decades of work
A Brown School training program that helps educate and support mental health research and scholars has received a grant extension from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). When it’s complete, it will mark 35 years of continual funding.
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to visit WashU
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returns to WashU Sept. 10 for a chat with Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.
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