A Ghost Story

People separate advantage and disadvantage—even though you can't have one without the other.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Social change can seem sudden, as if millions awoke one day to the same realization. But really, scholars say, consensus is constructed through thousands of small acts over generations.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Marty Hartigan lost his limbs. Then he cheered up his friends.

by Karen Springen

'I want to be optimistic,' says one incoming frosh.

by Jill Patton

Photographer and data scientist explores the power of digits.

by Jill Patton

4 Stanford scholars on how the pandemic could transform us.

Carl Bergstrom, PhD ’98, has become an interpreter of fallacies.

by Andrew Tan

Budget pressures led to ‘heartbreaking’ action.

by Kevin Cool

Chaplaincy takes on a new look.

by Andrew Tan

In overwhelmed eastern Peru, an Indigenous alum rallies a scrappy medical brigade to confront COVID-19.

by Melinda Sacks