Why We Aren’t Surprised: Ferguson and the American Legal System

ast week, a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, announced that it had chosen not to indict police officer Darren Wilson…

10 years ago

The Promise and Perils of Stanford’s Frat Crackdown

raternities are under siege, at Stanford and around the country, as administrators scramble to address sexual assault (and stem the…

10 years ago

The Importance of Being Prudent

this era of “Mission Accomplished” and the “JV squad” known as ISIS, U.S. foreign policy has frequently been triumphal in…

10 years ago

The State of the Vote

These last few weeks, democracy and the right to self-determination have seen great hope give way to despair. In Burkina…

10 years ago

Defining Genocide: ISIS, the U.N., and the ICC

Bertrand M. Patenaude is a lecturer in History and International Relations at Stanford University and a research fellow at the…

10 years ago

It’s As Bad As It Looks

So that happened. Unless you were abroad the past week, you probably know by now that the Republicans gave the…

10 years ago

The Promise and Perils of Corporate Leadership on Gay Rights

October 30, Apple’s Tim Cook became the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO. His open letter to BusinessWeek expressed his appreciation for…

10 years ago

Stay out of Syria

 scant three years after our official withdrawal from Iraq, America again stands on the precipice of prolonged military involvement in…

10 years ago

Stanford’s Activists Are Not Sheep

ast Wednesday, the Stanford Review published an article by Brandon Camhi analyzing the Slow Down for Mike Brown and Carry that Weight…

10 years ago

Do the Midterms Matter?

iven the closeness of Senate races in Iowa, Kansas, Georgia, and Colorado, it is still uncertain which party will control the…

10 years ago