The Stanford Chronicle
Philippa Crane
Senior Writer, Features. Philippa Crane writes The Stanford Chronicle’s Thursday long-form features, which rotate among the paper’s beats. She is drawn to institutional history, money and governance, and the decisions whose consequences unfold over decades.
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A Decade Instead of a Century: Inside the World Bank’s AI Report, and the Stanford Economists Who Shaped It
The World Bank's 380-page World Development Report 2026 argues that AI can compress a century of development into a decade, if poor countries adapt cheap tools and fix…
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The Cardinal Hundred: Stanford’s Wealthiest Living Alumni
From Larry Page and Sergey Brin to three DoorDash co-founders, meet the hundred wealthiest living people to have studied at Stanford: who they are, what they built, and…
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Washington’s New Share: How an 8 Percent Endowment Tax Will Reshape Stanford’s Budget
Stanford's endowment just returned 31.7 percent. Starting this fiscal year, the federal government takes 8 percent of the university's net investment income, an expected $250 million a year.…