Perspectives

Missouri employers can become global leaders in offering benefits packages that provide paid new child leave and ensure their continued competitiveness in an ever-globalizing labor market, writes PhD student Nicole Strombom.

The people of Hong Kong face a dynamic future as residents of the greatest business center of the Asia-Pacific region. Young people have enormous opportunities to participate in the city’s future growth as China’s window to global capital, writes David Meyer.

Hideo Kojima’s action RPG, Death Stranding (2019), reflects the emotional challenges of parenting. It resists easy answers to these challenges, writes Gabrielle Kirilloff.

Phillip Maciak, a TV critic and a senior lecturer in Arts & Sciences, writes a review of the new police comedy-drama “Elsbeth.”

Mathematicians work can help researchers understand how events might align in a way that leads to catastrophic failure, writes John Edward McCarthy.

While a highly qualified student applying to a dozen very selective universities will in all likelihood be accepted into at least one, the specific university they are admitted to may be the luck of the draw, writes Mark Rank.

‘Elsbeth’ takes a boilerplate police procedural and tosses in a character from another show entirely — with delightful results, writes Phillip Maciak.

Hannah Birnbaum, of Olin Business School, co-writes an article about recent research, which found that one reason why more people in advantaged groups don’t engage in allyship is because they underestimate how much their actions will be appreciated.

For all of us following our favorite teams, there’s always the tendency to blame a team’s exit from the NCAA tournament to bad luck. Statistically, though, the ball usually bounces true, writes Mark Rank.

Paige McGinley, in Arts & Sciences, writes on the “Human Ties” blog about Bayard Rustin’s behind-the-scenes role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington — and the significance of role-playing rehearsals to prepare protesters for what they would face during the Civil Rights Movement.