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Interstate and crashed into a car carrying five teens, killing all of them. Good afternoon, everybody. Im sean mcdonald. Right now, the suspect continues to be treated for his own injuries. Wmurs ray brewer joins us in the studio with new details on what was going on in bourgoins life leading up to the crash. Ray well, Court Documents filed in support of the charges say that Steven Bourgoin was facing foreclosure and was also dealing with domestic and child custody issues. Investigators say bour...

Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

Top Reparations Scholars Darity and Mullen Win Another Prestigious Award: ASA Outstanding Book

When: Warwick Township supervisors meeting, Jan. 18.

 Inspired by the little-known, larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of Trouble the Water, freely adapted by Ellen Geer from the 2019 award-winning historical novel by Rebecca Dwight Bruff.

Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect on the Black experience in America and examine continuing systemic racism and discrimination in the U.S. – issues many Stanford scholars are tackling in their research and scholarship.

From Havre to Bozeman, the push for equity persists.

Stanford’s Family Weekend theme: Wherever you are, you are family The annual Stanford Family Weekend, which will feature a livestream town hall style meeting with President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell on Feb. 27, will be preceded by three days of online programs, including campus tours and “Back to School” class lectures. By Kathleen J. Sullivan Like many gatherings during the pandemic, the annual Stanford Family Weekend in late February will be a virtual experi...

How and why privileged defendants fare better in criminal court than non-privileged ones. Race and class make a difference in experiences and outcomes for criminal defendants in a system that emphasizes control and getting defendants to give in, according to sociologist Matthew Clair. Achance encounter five years ago in a Chicago-area courtroom altered the course of sociologist Matthew Clair’s academic life. While a graduate student researching the criminal justice system, Clair and a collea...

The Best Political Economy Books of 2020 Writer and editor, ProMarket. As a journalist, he has mostly covered issues related to the intersection between politics and the economy, such as antitrust, corruption, lobbying and social movements. Prior to joining the Stigler center, he worked for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz-TheMarker, where he was a senior features writer and still writes as a political columnist. He is the author of Rothschild: The Story of a Protest Movement (2012, Hakibbutz Hame...