News in Brief New America, Old America, and Holding the Ground for Multilingual Learners Even in difficult political times, dual language learners are making progress in some states. By Janie T. Carnock… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What the World Needs Now Is Climate-Conscious Cohorts Germany, Canada, and California need to act together to combat climate change. By Deborah Gordon Angela Merkel and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Extracting Signal From the Noise It’s the key to getting through college (and life). By Emily Weiss (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) As if… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Many Americans Are Behind Bars for No Good Reason? Lots, according to a new report. By Jared Keller (Photo: Thomas Hawk/Flickr) It’s an undisputed fact that the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Perez Hilton Set the Stage for Kanye West’s Medical-Records Breach Electronic medical records made it easy to both peep and catch peepers at confidential patient information. By Francie… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Where People Don’t Believe in Global Warming Americans seem to conflate local temperatures with global trends, researchers find. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Khuroshvili Ilya/Flickr) The… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Beyond the Helpless Victim: How the Media Portrays Women in Conflict Zones Prominent media outlets represent the scale of a conflict’s violence through the injury and death of women, but… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A New Review, Funded by Food Companies, Calls Recommended Sugar Limits Untrustworthy This isn’t the first time a company has paid for university scientists to write a review, which are… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief African Americans Are Three Times More Likely to Be Killed by Police One more dive into the statistics on race and police killings. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Conversation With the Researcher Behind the Latest Study on Racial Disparities in Police Killings Pacific Standard spoke with James Buehler about his research, which shows black and Hispanic men are indeed more… Pacific Standard Staff