Perspectives

Control of invasive Hib and the other vaccine-preventable diseases is a remarkable achievement of modern medicine. Today, thousands of children who potentially would have contracted invasive Hib are alive and well because they were protected from the infection by vaccination. Let’s not give up this great accomplishment. Let’s not turn our backs on life-saving vaccines, writes Gregory Storch.

Earlier tonight, in yet another 6-3 shadow docket order, the Supreme Court stayed a three-judge district court’s injunction, thereby allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that was found to be intentionally discriminatory and in direct defiance of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Allen v. Milligan, writes Travis Crum.

When maps and counter maps uncover and layer the otherwise unseen relationships that shape a place, they assert new forms of collective memory, offering more meaningful versions of public authority, writes Patty Heyda.

A team of WashU McKelvey Engineering students explains in this Q&A how and why they designed the Locus Suit, a device to help people with visual impairments navigate the world more independently.

Kinship care is the right choice for many children, but it should not be a benchmark of success. Children’s well-being is the standard that matters, writes Sarah Font.

We are about to run an old experiment again, with a worse strain, fewer resources, and a smaller global safety net. We know what the result will be. But this time, if we fail women and girls, we’ll have done so by deliberately turning a blind eye, write Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff.

AI is already changing legal work in unprecedented ways, and that no one can responsibly say with confidence where that change ends, writes Oliver Roberts.

Technical excellence does not automatically lead to professionalism. Trainees must learn human skills like communication and accountability to achieve scientific success, writes Hong Chen.

Does this mean I should let my baby have my iPhone? No. But it does mean that fixing the child anxiety and depression crisis is not as simple as just taking away screens, writes Liberty Vittert.

Perhaps the most important work a commencement speaker can do is to bring a community of people together through what they share in this fleeting moment, rather than to dwell on how they are being driven apart, writes Ian Bogost.