Perspectives

As organizations who feel privileged to call St. Louis and the state of Missouri home, we each commit to doing our part — including working with our local, state and federally elected officials — to ensure the stranglehold of violence in our cities and counties is eradicated, writes Chancellor Andrew Martin.

Political scientist David Carter, of Arts & Sciences, co-writes an analysis published in The Washington Post rejecting President Donald Trump’s description of the House impeachment inquiry as a “coup.” He helped compile a dataset of coup attempts around the world.

John Inazu, the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion, writes an article in The Atlantic analyzing presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s comments that he’d support revoking religious organizations’ tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage.

Benjamin Akande, director of the university’s Africa initiative, writes an article in the Ladue News about how people could better learn from failures to avoid future mistakes, rather than simply seeking someone or something to blame.

It wouldn’t be a complete stretch to suggest that public companies should charter government agencies, rather than the other way around, writes Anne Marie Knott.

In impeachment inquiries, constitutionally authorized bodies are using constitutionally granted powers, however politically and potentially partisan their effort. By contrast, coup attempts occur when political actors take extra-constitutional actions — most often using guns — to oust a chief executive, writes David Carter.

Watch this video for an overview of the work conducted through “The Divided City,” an urban humanities initiative at Washington University supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that began in 2014. It has supported dozens of projects exploring the effects of spatial segregation.

Threatening the loss of tax exemption to hundreds of thousands of religious organizations, including many that serve the most vulnerable in our society, is not the way to go, writes John Inazu.

As the U.S. once again prepares for national elections, we hope that voters in the St. Louis region will join with elections administrators in strengthening our democratic processes, write Gena McClendon and Michael Sherraden.

Hong Kong is irreplaceable in the Asia-Pacific and hosts a complex and pivotal network of firms and financiers that has survived wars, revolutions and economic depressions, writes David Meyer.