David M. Perry, Author at Pacific Standard

How to Make Grad School More Humane

It's time to end the boot-camp approach to grad school.

Americans across the political spectrum are longing for change in health care but are worried about what changes might mean.

Moving from a segregated to a unified model is a major shift for the 50-year-old organization. But do the new changes go far enough?

Until American health care becomes truly universal, Medicaid expansion is the best way for states to safeguard the most vulnerable populations.

With Dems running the House, the Trump administration is looking for ways to enact its agenda without legislative approval.

After the 2016 election, disability activists say the bar for prospective Democratic nominees has never been higher.

Cars have gotten much safer. Maybe we could start treating firearms the same way?

In his new book, John Warner argues that we can't fix how we teach writing unless we also fix a toxic mode of high school assessment.

The total number of executions is declining, but we're not executing the worst criminals—just the criminals with the worst lawyers.

When we're talking about violent anti-Semitism, studious neutrality is journalistic malpractice.