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What If You Unfriended Facebook?
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What If You Unfriended Facebook?

People are happier, but less informed.

by Melinda Sacks

What You Don’t Know About the New Law Dean
All Right Now

What You Don’t Know About the New Law Dean

She stood up to sex slavery, censorship and ethnic cleansing. Now her influence is growing.

by Deni Ellis Béchard

Westworld’s Wrangler
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Westworld’s Wrangler

Lisa Joy was a lawyer with a high-paying consulting job when she got the phone call that changed her life.

by Melinda Sacks

Consider the Artichoke
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Consider the Artichoke

A pair of botanist-bloggers deconstruct the food we eat.

by Summer Moore Batte

‘This Is Nothing  Short of Appalling’
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‘This Is Nothing Short of Appalling’

Admissions scheme prompts firing of sailing coach, new safeguards.

by Kevin Cool

Focusing on What Matters
Columns

Focusing on What Matters

This spring’s admissions fraud scheme poses challenges for higher education.

by Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Farewells

Safeway Chief Who Saved San Francisco Giants

Peter Magowan, ’64

by John Roemer

Meet Stanford’s Congressional Freshmen
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Meet Stanford’s Congressional Freshmen

Short profiles of the five Stanford alumni recently elected to Congress

Pioneering Psychology Researcher
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Pioneering Psychology Researcher

Eleanor Emmons Maccoby

by John Roemer

Farewells

Olympic Cycling Medalist

Kelly Catlin, Gr. ’20

by John Roemer