May 2018

Cover Story

Why Americans Can't Get Along

Part 1 of 9: Nine experts explain our deafening divide.

Features

Dawn Patrol

Jo Boaler Wants Everyone to Love Math
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Polarization
Polarization

Why Americans Can't Get Along

Part 1 of 9: Nine experts explain our deafening divide.

by Elliot Kaufman

Polarization

Fear and Loathing in the Body Politic

Part 2 of 9

by Shanto Iyengar and Neil Malhotra

Polarization

Polarization Is Not the Problem

Part 3 of 9

by Morris P. Fiorina

Polarization

What American History Can Teach Us

Part 4 of 9

by David Brady

Polarization

Is Social Media to Blame? Not Likely

Part 5 of 9

by Matthew Gentzkow

Polarization

What Happened to the Party of Lincoln?

Part 6 of 9

by Doug McAdam

Polarization

Who I Am: The Role of Identity in Modern Politics

Part 7 of 9

by Francis Fukuyama

Polarization

The Urban-Rural Divide

Part 8 of 9: How political competition in the United States came to be organized as a battle…

by Jonathan Rodden

Polarization

So, Now What? A Way Out of Our Polarized Politics

Part 9 of 9

by Didi Kuo

Essays
Essays

Saying Goodbye to a Part of Our Past

An Elegy for the ‘O’

by Melinda Sacks

Essays

Man in the Mountains

Deep in the Cascades, my father's legacy lives on.

by David Hirning

Columns
Columns

Can We All Get Along?

Faculty weigh in on why we’re so polarized.

by Kevin Cool

Columns

Home Grown

True to its roots, Stanford seeks to strengthen community bonds.

by Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Departments
Departments

Letters to the Editor
Departments

Let It Go
Departments

Shelf Life — May 2018
Departments

Build Like a Girl

At Hammerstone School, women gain more than carpentry skills.

by Christine Foster

Departments

Real to Reel

Filmmaker Anne Makepeace illuminates often-overlooked people and cultures.

by Christine Foster

Departments

Frog Calls

An ode to croaking, clicking and 'oinky boink boinking.'

by Rob Jackson

Farewells
Farewells

A Talent for Breaking Barriers

March Fong Eu, EdD ’54

by Julie Muller Mitchell

Farewells

Double Role as Actor and Politician

John Gavin, ’52

by Vicky Elliott

Farewells

Dedicated Researcher, Physician and Mentor

Oliver W. Press, ’73

by Christine Foster

Farewells

Groundbreaking Geneticist

Charles Yanofsky

by Julie Muller Mitchell

Farewells

In Every Aspect, a Hero

Christopher “Tripp” Zanetis, JD ’17

by Vicky Elliott

Farewells

Obituaries - May 2018

The Dish
The Dish

Meet Our Young Alum Rhodes Scholar

Jelani Munroe, 16, is off to Oxford.

by Jackie Botts

The Dish

The Man Behind the Yellow First-down Line

Stan Honey, MS 83, among those recognized by Inventors Hall of Fame.

by Jackie Botts

The Dish

‘Destiny of Desire,’ ‘Native Gardens’ Take the Stage

Works by playwright Karen Zacarías, ’91, in production nationwide.

by Melinda Sacks

The Dish

Supporting Young Black Venture Capitalists

New group founded by Frederick Groce, ’14, MA ’15, seeks to ‘pay it forward.’

by Diana Aguilera