[A couple of the formulas in the model have been updated since publication, but the basic financial story remains the same. I have noted in the story where exact figures differ from initial publication.] One of the largest economic and sociological shifts of the 20th century was the rise of…

I was the research assistant for a New York Magazine package on the real scoop on making it at Stanford called A Cynic’s Guide to Stanford (here) that focused on tech and a follow-up that focused on the rest of campus (here). The package is a tongue-in-cheek plan, from the…

I wanted to make this an real essay about the rise of dual class share structures in tech companies and have an original take on how we should respond to it and What It Means, but after reading a bunch of papers about it I didn’t really have one, so…

Before Josh Hawley became the Attorney General of Missouri, opened investigations into several of Silicon Valley’s most prominent companies, and entered into the 2018 Missouri Senate race, he was a Stanford undergraduate (class of 2002) who colleagues say was driven and ambitious, to the point of discussing his desire to…

Over the past seven years, I received over $330,000 of need-based financial aid, and it gave me a one-way ticket to the new American elite. I grew up attending public schools in Iowa and Ohio until increasing frustration with my schooling led my family and me to reply to a…

New documents reveal Booker’s undergraduate role in preserving a campus institution — The Bridge Peer Counseling Center has long been a fixture of Stanford. Long before Cory Booker (’91) was a U.S. Senator and one of the biggest names of the Democratic Party, when he was still an undergraduate majoring in political science and writing columns for the Stanford Daily, he was…

One of the defining stories of the year was a guessing game: which of the political Right’s factions (neoconservatives, libertarians, the Religious Right, etc.) would go along with Trump’s gleeful trashing of traditional movement conservatism and assertion of a populist white nationalism? Where members of each faction chose to stand…

This article is part of a series on housing politics and policy, particularly in the context of the Bay Area. Other articles on housing can be found here. Following the public resignation of Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commissioner Kate Downing, the Stanford Political Journal has talked to multiple figures…

This article is part of a series on housing politics and policy, particularly in the context of the Bay Area. Other articles on housing can be found here. On August 10, following a series of years in which the average home price in Palo Alto doubled to $2.5 million, attorney…