Latest
Explore our latest news, views and perspectives from Stanford and the alumni community.
Editor’s Choice
All Right Now
The surprising strategy for minimizing precooked food waste.
Politics Scholar Omar Wasow on Protests, Violence and the Media
How activists tell their stories can help build coalitions, says the Class of ’92 alum and Princeton assistant professor.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
The Doctor in Charge of the NBA Bubble
Five swabs a day keeps COVID away, and other tales from the league’s unprecedented epidemiological experiment.
by Kelli Anderson
Social Psychologist Brian Lowery on Privilege
People separate advantage and disadvantage—even though you can't have one without the other.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Hard Conversations
I’m working toward a world where we no longer need to warn our children and grandchildren.
by Lane Morgan
How to Build a Movement
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
Sociologist Forrest Stuart on Urban Policing
Seeing what’s wrong with society when people break the law.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Undefeated
Marty Hartigan lost his limbs. Then he cheered up his friends.
by Karen Springen