Articles by Ian Hurley

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.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on September 4th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Dispatches

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider star in Last Tango in Paris.

PS Picks

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.

Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Breakfast

Economics

The current administration has made heavy-handed economic policy one of its main tools for influencing global politics.

By Ian Hurley

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested hundreds criminal aliens in Florida and Puerto Rico in March 2018.

News in Brief

The end of the contract comes amid concerns that customs enforcement was using the information to target law-abiding undocumented immigrants.

By Ian Hurley

Dispatches

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a White House daily news briefing on June 14th, 2018.

Dispatches

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

People gather to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, on April 25th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

News in Brief

Leaders in the civil rights community fear the dangerous precedent set by the court's upholding of Trump's travel ban and denounce the reasoning behind the decision.

By Ian Hurley

Economics

We spoke with four economists about Russia's claims of a World Cup-related financial windfall. They were all skeptical.

By Ian Hurley

General view of Sochi prior to the start of the FIFA 2018 World Cup on June 9th, 2018, in Sochi, Russia.

PS Picks

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.

Outside of the journalism building at Columbia University where the Pulitzer Prizes are announced.

PS Picks

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.

Royal Caribbean's new Oasis-class cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas, the largest passenger ship ever to be constructed by gross tonnage and built by French shipyard STX, is pictured on February 13th, 2018, in the port of Saint-Nazaire, France.

PS Picks

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

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.

Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown attend the after party for the premiere of Netflix's Queer Eye on February 7th, 2018, in West Hollywood, California.

PS Picks

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.

Donald Glover attends an Esquire event in Hollywood on February 20th, 2018.

PS Picks

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.