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On July 10, 2025, Stanford professors Francis Fukuyama and Kathryn Stoner issued a joint demand calling for the immediate release of Jesús Armas, a Venezuelan pro-democracy activist and incoming Stanford student. Armas, a 2022 Fisher Family Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and| The Stanford Review
On July 21, 2025, Stanford announced that it would suspend the co-op status of Enchanted Broccoli Forest (EBF) and Kairos. The decision was announced after a month-long investigation into the co-ops found that they violated Title VI, the federal law that prohibits harassment and discrimination based on race, color, national| The Stanford Review
On June 27th, many graduate students on campus received an ominous email titled “Termination Request” sent by Stanford Graduate Workers Union (SGWU) leadership, including Liam Sherman, the Vice-President for Membership, and Orisa Coombs (who signed off on her emails as “UE Local 1043 President”), the president of the SGWU. The| The Stanford Review
Ms. Delcid is a freshman studying Computer Science and Government at Harvard College. I often stroll through Harvard Yard and find it hard to believe this is the same institution that once challenged minds like J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jack Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and W.E.B. Du Bois. The| The Stanford Review
2025 marks a new era for Stanford football, with the first full calendar year of Andrew Luck at the helm as the inaugural general manager for the Stanford football team. Luck previously played at quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts and Stanford from 2008 to 2011, leading the team to| The Stanford Review
Just last year, San Francisco and Oakland were symbols of urban collapse. Streets were overrun with crime, businesses shut down, and residents begged for basic order. But today, things are shifting. Everything, from hotels to restaurants, national chains to beloved local spots, had been closed down. In-N-Out Burger closed| The Stanford Review
In 2023, Stanford Medicine was forced to ration cancer drugs. A multi-disciplinary ethics committee was tasked with allocating a limited supply of Cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug. Why did Stanford and other hospitals around the country have this shortage? It was due to quality issues at a single facility—Intas| The Stanford Review
On Wednesday, April 9th, President Trump froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern and over $1 billion to Cornell. The sequence of funding halts, which began in early March, is in response to university administrations’ handling of pro-Palestine demonstrations, allowance of antisemitic activity on campus, and lack of| The Stanford Review
Freedom is often embodied in objects. For the Founding Fathers, it was the Lockean cottage, earned through labor and governed without interference: a true sanctuary of individual will. Today, its truest descendant is the car, with the ability to take its driver anywhere at any time. Running alongside that, however,| The Stanford Review
Since the beginning of his term, President Trump has issued two executive orders extending the TikTok sale deadline and publicly proposed creating a sovereign wealth fund with the intention of buying the app. After years of attacking TikTok in his attempts to reduce Chinese economic power and influence in the| The Stanford Review
This is another installation in a series of articles about the future of money. The U.S. dollar is the greatest asset in the world; it is time the rest of the world gained unfettered, programmable access to it. Dollar‑denominated stablecoins, blockchain tokens fully backed| The Stanford Review
Across the country, university speech crackdowns are becoming bipartisan, targeting leftist and conservative students alike. At Stanford, they’ve all but disappeared. At least that’s what the latest report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), released today, indicates. Their “Students under FIRE”| The Stanford Review
May 4th was a special day for Hollywood, and not just because it was Star Wars day. In the evening, President Donald Trump decided to expand his global trade war by adding internationally-produced movies to the list of imports he wants to tariff. On Truth Social, President Trump proclaimed that| The Stanford Review
We thank the Stanford Review for calling attention to the serious risks to research security and to the safety and freedom of international students and their families that result from the relentless espionage and malign interference activities of the People’s Republic of China. There is cause for concern about| The Stanford Review
This summer, a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on China, began receiving unexpected messages from Charles Chen. At first, Charles's outreach seemed benign: he asked about networking opportunities. But soon,| The Stanford Review
Last May, one of Stanford’s most notorious left-wing co-ops, Columbae, teetered on the edge of extinction. After only four students signed up to live in the house during the 2024-2025 academic year, the university nearly stripped Columbae of its house. However, Stanford’s administration relented, and Columbae managed to| The Stanford Review
I stayed awake late last night to read the reports of Israelis being ruthlessly murdered in Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel. Soon after I woke up this morning, I texted my father that I was not excited to be a Jew on Stanford’s campus today. Even when typing those| The Stanford Review
