Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow and Treiman Professor of Law Travis Crum will join civic leaders for Every Voice, Every Vote, a public discussion exploring elections, voting, and civic participation in Missouri on Oct. 26 at Saint Louis University.
Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow Jake Rosenfeld spoke with St. Louis Public Radio about Missouri food service workers' push for higher pay and better benefits, explaining how stalled wage growth and employers' efforts to regain bargaining power may be fueling renewed worker activism.
Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum was featured in The New Yorker discussing congressional redistricting in Missouri, including the possibility of future efforts targeting the St. Louis congressional district represented by Wesley Bell.
Economics graduate student Kiara Kim and political science graduate student Nathan Englehart were named co-recipients of the inaugural Graduate Weidenbaum Center Survey Best Paper Award, recognizing outstanding research presented at the April 2026 Research Showcase.
New research from Lukas K. Alexander examines the geographic distribution of DOGE federal contract cuts, finding that counties with lower support for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election experienced more contract cuts. The study explores what these patterns reveal about the use of presidential administrative power.
Weidenbaum Center grant recipient Caitlyn Collins spoke with St. Louis on the Air about a federal proposal to redirect child care funding to married families with a stay-at-home parent, its potential impact on working families, and the need for broader child care and paid leave support.
Michael Strawbridge, a political science professor and Weidenbaum Center research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, said Black women in Congress lend a greater focus to maternal and women’s health. “They recognize that sometimes issues related to race on the single axis don’t always account for the distinctive experiences of Black women who deal with both race and gender,” Strawbridge said.
Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow and Treiman Professor of Law Travis Crum spoke with NBC News about recent Supreme Court decisions involving election disputes. Crum said the Court’s actions could signal that delays in resolving election-related cases will not be rewarded.
That is a fast-paced briefing schedule, said **Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum**, a Washington University law professor who studies election and constitutional law. Even so, the U.S. Supreme Court’s stay will remain in effect even if the 8th Circuit does something before the overseas ballot deadline, he said. The Supreme Court’s stay is structured to remain in place until the high court acts on it again.
“The case could keep going after the 2026 elections,” Crum said. “It is possible the plaintiffs want to get a precedent on the books that once a primary happens you cannot change the districts before a general election.”
“Here in Missouri, we’ve witnessed a series of unprecedented actions, one after another,” said Weidenbaum Center Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis who specializes in election law. Do voters have a right for congressional district boundaries to stay the same from the primary to the general election? “That is a tough and complicated legal question, and there is no definitive ruling from the Supreme Court that one could point to for an answer,” Crum said.
Faculty Research Fellow Travis Crum, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote on Election Law Blog late Tuesday that though “Clark heard the Supreme Court’s message, he decided to plow ahead anyways.” That decision, he suggested, could be vulnerable on appeal. “I predict the Eighth Circuit will get the message,” Crum wrote, “and if it doesn’t, Justice Kavanaugh will repeat it.”
Jake Rosenfeld, Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow, argues that the public sector is the forgotten flank of the labor movement—and its largest opportunity for growth.