Footnotes

Last year, our writer Shirley Streshinsky (“The Grandparent Scam” September/October) looked inside the world of grandparent scammers.

A writer discovers a new way to understand her father’s endless, and dangerous, forays into get-rich-quick schemes.

To figure out how exactly to balance the values of public information and personal privacy—and how to stay out of court—Google has done the sensible thing.

R.I.P. jobs as we once knew them. Plus: Scientology, music, and candy-cane making.

Despite all the coverage of the crisis with the Islamic State, the organization is still poorly understood.

In the 1980s, Southern California set the modern street gang loose upon the world.

"Pacific Standard has Seth Masket, a national expert on political parties, writing a column where he regularly uses data."

Virginia Postrel has long been interested in Wikipedia’s status as a self-regulating system—and all the genius and tensions inherent therein.

When Claire Dederer recently rediscovered Reality Bites she realized it captured not only her generation’s cultural ethos, but its economic outlook as well.

Mark Obbie explored the possibility that traumatic experiences—a death in the family, a health scare—result not in a spiral of anxiety, but in a rebirth.