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If the Supreme Court is nakedly political, can it be just?

Assaults on judicial independence are made easier when the public comes to view the judiciary as a political body. This risk, and not just the identity of the next justice, should be at the center of public attention.

Science & Technology

New patch boosts brightness in medical diagnostic tests

A multidisciplinary team from Washington University in St. Louis and the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has developed a high-tech fix that brings some medical diagnostic tests out of the dark and into the light.

Sociology

Rallying point

In 2015, Washington University re-established the Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences. Concentrating on the origins and impacts of inequality, faculty and students are investigating some of the nation’s most critical and urgent social challenges.

Sociology

A place of belonging

Students in Professor David Cunningham’s “Introduction to Research Methods,” with Joseph Anthony serving as assistant, created hand-drawn visual presentations of data associated with historical school desegregation patterns in Mississippi. (Joe Angeles/Washington University)

In just a few years, students have come to think of the sociology department as a home, as their own special place at the university.

Performing Arts

Out of the ordinary

Two WashU alumni starred in a new off-Broadway production examining the dynamics of a Muslim immigrant family in contemporary England.

Religion

The Danforth Center’s director goes into moral combat

R. Marie Griffith’s new book analyzes how, and why, “sex divided American Christians and fractured American politics.”

Law

An appreciation of the rule of law

When she was 10, Shirley Padmore Mensah survived a coup in her native Liberia. Due to that and encouragement from her father, Mensah studied at Washington University’s School of Law eventually becoming a judge in Missouri with a deep appreciation of the rule of law.