Perspectives

Samuel Shearer, in WashU Arts & Sciences, has published “Kigali.” Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores how residents navigate the demands of global capital.

Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can, writes Ian Bogost.

Alfonso Serrano, a politics editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with Andrea Katz, a law scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, about the Minnesota lawsuit and its possible legal implications.

In an online interview, John Guida, an editor in Times Opinion, talks with Andrea Katz, who teaches law at Washington University, about what might unfold in oral arguments — as well as how recent scholarship might apply to the case and on presidential power.

You may be forgiven for asking what a bear attack on a septuagenarian has to do with demographic change in Nepal. The answer, however, is everything, writes Geoff Childs.

Olin Business School student Joe Poole created Brain Battle, a mobile app to help students prepare for the ACT and SAT. Here, he explains the idea behind his gaming app, which was recognized among promising business student startups.

Our findings suggest a fundamental rethinking may be needed over the use of camps. If these environments structurally limit what families can achieve, continuing to measure them against self-reliance standards may be setting them up to fail, write Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff.

Americans were shocked by the Jan. 3 raid on Venezuela and by the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. But the incident represents the return of something very old to U.S. foreign policy.

WashU Chancellor Andrew D. Martin takes part in an episode of the “Arch City Report” podcast to discuss the challenges higher education is facing and how the university is positioning itself to weather the storm and come out stronger.

What does it take to become the kind of doctor a family can trust with their child’s heart? More than I thought, writes Eli Fredman, MD.