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Mark Oppenheimer, professor of practice in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

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.

Siobhan Sutcliffe, professor of surgery

Timothy McBride, the Bernard Becker Professor

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

Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been invested in these grants to improve the health of not only trans and nonbinary people, but also American society as a whole. With the termination of these grants, few will get to see the benefits of this investment, writes Paz Galupo.

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

Graham Colditz, MD, the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery