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All Right Now
Peter Bing cultivated his love of Stanford in those who followed.
Historian Ana Raquel Minian on Immigrant and Latinx Rights
A story of shifting public sentiment and interconnected economies.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Historian James Campbell on White Backlash
Freedom, justice and equality are too often seen as zero-sum.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Sociologist Matthew Clair on Race and Class in Criminal Justice
It takes more than a movement to transform the system.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
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
