Perspectives

St. Louis residents should urge city officials across the region to prioritize investments that make neighborhoods cooler, healthier and more connected, writes doctoral student Raul D. Gierbolini-Rivera.

In the latest episode of the “Ideas Matter” podcast, WashU’s Sandro Galea leads a discussion about perceptions of rural America and the commonalities that transcend the country’s urban–rural divide.

Resh Gupta, a postdoctoral researcher in the cognitive control lab in WashU Arts & Sciences, joins a podcast to discuss research on mindfulness, cognitive control and anxiety.

Ella Siegrist, a doctoral student in sociology in WashU Arts & Sciences, writes about how federal immigration detention has led to economic opportunity for struggling rural communities with jail beds to spare.

I predict the Eighth Circuit will get the message, and if it doesn’t, Justice Kavanaugh will repeat it, writes Travis Crum in Election Law Blog.

Labor should go on the offensive and help close the gap in public-sector union strength between the United States and its peer nations, writes Jake Rosenfeld.

Americans’ reproductive health can only truly be realized when everyone’s reproduction is equally valued, and when their own decision-making is put first, writes doctoral student Anna Wood.

Time is the most meaningful gift medicine can give. Watch this story of resilience and gratitude, four years in the making, featuring Michael Avidan, MBBCh, a professor who became a patient of WashU Medicine.

As Shaun Tan reminds us with his stand-alone follow-up to “The Arrival,” some truths are so enormous, so beautiful, they can be told only through myth, writes John Hendrix

Richard Chapman, senior lecturer of film and media studies, shares his remembrance of working with Dolly Parton.