Ben Rowen is the national editor at Pacific Standard, where he oversees the magazine's enterprise and national reporting efforts. He was previously an associate editor and directed the research and fact-checking department. Before joining Pacific Standard, he was an editorial fellow at The Atlantic, where he fact-checked and wrote for the magazine.
The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain communities are often left behind.
Research shows media reporting on mass shootings might incentivize further mass shootings. But it's unclear whether removing the shooter's name from coverage will change that.
A recent goof by the Associated Press indicates that real-time fact-checking still doesn't exactly know what it's doing.
It's a question of whether animals featured in movies are acting in the first place.
Pacific Standard's most widely circulated articles of the past year.
Anatomy of a Fact is a recurring series exposing how the Pacific Standard research and fact-checking process works.
Though these ballot initiatives address the state's homelessness problem, many homeless people won't be able to vote on them.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
Anatomy of a Fact is a recurring series exposing how the Pacific Standard research and fact-checking process works.
Anatomy of a Fact is a recurring series exposing how the Pacific Standard research and fact-checking process works.
Deciphering what counts as true in our post-truth era.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
The Jedi religion—inspired by the Star Wars franchise—has already earned tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service. But can it prove its spiritual legitimacy to a skeptical public?
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
