Perspectives

Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on the First Amendment, writes Greg Magarian.

Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.

The rise of identity politics and a growing taste for transgression have eroded the taboo against antisemitism across the political spectrum, writes Mark Oppenheimer.

Hysell Oviedo, the Roger M. Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professor of Biomedical Research

By attacking disparate impact theory, Trump not only signals that the persistent racial inequalities still visible in American society do not concern him, he is also showing that he intends to gut the very civil rights laws that were meant to dismantle those inequalities, writes Pauline Kim.

“The Eye,” a new medical humanities podcast hosted by WashU’s Rebecca Messbarger, recently launched on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The current actions of the Trump administration show how government can silence speakers without censoring them, writes Gregory Magarian.

When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what he would’ve done if he had a smartphone and an Instagram account, writes doctoral student Trevin Corsiglia.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin joins the NPR Planet Money podcast to discuss how the university gets funded and what it would mean if that funding went away.

For more than a century, Walgreens has survived and adapted to sweeping changes in retail. Now, it’s entering a new chapter – one that could reshape not just its own future but the role of pharmacies in American life, write Patrick Aguilar and Peter Boumgarden.