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Yang E. Li, assistant professor of neurosurgery and genetics

Michael Province, professor of genetics

William McKinnon, the Clark Way Harrison Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences

When states give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, it affects nondrivers, too — even the littlest ones. Babies born to immigrants from Mexico and Central America are bigger and healthier in states that make that change, writes Margot Moinester.

As the global population of refugees increased to a record high 37.8 million as of mid-2024, a staggering 16 percent—nearly one in six—originated from Afghanistan, where they have fled several decades of civil war, persecution, and state collapse, writes Mitra Naseh.

Historian Peter Kastor examines the legacy of Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, through a pair of visits the former president made to WashU in 1975 and 1991.

Yin Cao, MD, associate professor of medicine

Charles Conway, MD, professor of psychiatry

Sketches are constantly gesturing toward internet culture — which makes sense, since the show has long been internet culture itself, writes Phillip Maciak.

Jake Rosenfeld, professor of sociology