News in Brief How Jeff Sessions Helped Kill Equitable School Funding in Alabama A lawsuit in the 1990s had Alabama poised to fund poor black school districts as fairly as wealthy… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Nine Figures That Illustrate the Reaction Against Trump’s Immigration Order Legal experts question the constitutionality of Trump’s immigration order, while protesters, activists, and businesses fight for refugee rights.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Scientific Editors Ask for Fewer Women Reviewers Yet another way academic culture is biased against women. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images) Plenty has… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Adversity Inspires Politically Polarized Attitudes New research suggests personal suffering tends to move people toward one ideological extreme or the other. By Tom… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Trump’s Immigration Order Is a Major Blow to American Universities Of America’s 975,000 international students, roughly 16,000 have been prohibited by executive order from entering (or re-entering) the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The British Farm Community That Made Its Own Internet Lancashire was stuck with dial-up until a group of farmers (and a hairdresser) banded together to produce an… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Advocacy Groups Confront the Trump Dilemma Many non-profits rely on bipartisan access to do their work. But how do you maintain both access and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Devalues the American Passport In an era when national allegiance is bought and sold, the benefits (and values) of a United States… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief New Maps Show How Our Consumption Affects Wildlife Thousands of Miles Away The maps can tell which countries, and which commodities, threaten habitats and wildlife at various hotspots. By Shreya… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief When a Study Cast Doubt on a Heart Pill, the Drug Company Turned to Tom Price After hearing from a company whose CEO was a campaign contributor, a congressional aide to Donald Trump’s Health… Pacific Standard Staff