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Journalists visit the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on May 11th, 2017.

Economics

Meet the Grassroots Organizers Trying to Keep the Olympics Out of Los Angeles

NOlympics LA, an effort led by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, says the city's bid to host the Olympics in 2028 will ultimately damage and displace its most vulnerable populations.

Jack Denton

A homeless man walks down the street in the downtown Skid Row area of Los Angeles, California.

Social Justice

‘What Was Originally a Temporary Plan Got Kind of Comfortable’: One Man’s Experience Being Homeless in California

Pacific Standard writer Jack Denton speaks with a childhood friend about the daily realities of living without a home.

Jack Denton

A police car stops near a homeless encampment on April 19th, 2006, in Los Angeles, California.

Social Justice

For Los Angeles’ Homeless, Fears Persist of a ‘Cruel and Pistol-Happy’ Police Force

Despite a federal court ruling that reinforces the rights of the homeless, Skid Row residents live in fear of losing what little they have.

Jack Denton

People enter an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Alhambra, California, on August 30th, 2018.

Economics

The Communications Director of the California Democratic Party Explains the In-N-Out Boycott Controversy

We spoke with John Vigna about the boycott that wasn't, social media headaches, and the post-2016 politicization of everything.

Jack Denton

Baphomet serves as a go-to signifier for the Satanic Temple.

Social Justice

What Is the Satanic Temple, and How Did a Goat-Headed Statue End Up at the Arkansas State Capitol?

The non-theistic religious organization has challenged Christian dominance in governmental action across the nation for years.

Jack Denton

Police respond to a shooting at the building that houses the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28th, 2018.

News in Brief

A Shooting at a Newspaper in Maryland Leaves at Least Five Dead

A lone gunman burst into the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, on Thursday, shooting and killing five newspaper employees and "gravely injuring" several more.

Jack Denton

Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court.

News in Brief

Breaking Down the Supreme Court’s Inaction on Gerrymandering

Stanford political scientist Bruce Cain offers his thoughts on redistricting commissions and Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.

Jack Denton

Objects That Matter: Taxidermy

Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.

Jack Denton

White nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of the alt-right exchange insults with counter-protesters during the Unite the Right rally on August 12th, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Social Justice

A ‘White Civil Rights Rally’ Will Be Held in Washington, D.C.

The National Park Service has approved plans for a "white civil rights rally" to be held across from the White House on the anniversary of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.

Jack Denton