Perspectives

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.

Writer and illustrator D.B. Dowd, a professor of design at the WashU Sam Fox School, discusses in a Q&A his latest book, “Reading Pictures: A History of Illustration,” which traces illustration from early print to modern digital media.

Ian Bogost writes about a ransomware attack took down a popular university-course-management software right in the middle of finals.

Ramesh Agarwal, of WashU McKelvey Engineering, takes part in a podcast to discuss carbon capture — how it works, why it’s important to fight climate change and the challenges ahead.

There is still time for the government to act to make Trump Accounts a successful driver of generational wealth for American families, write Jin Huang and Stephen Roll.