News in Brief How Your Retirement Funds Contribute to Climate Change and Deforestation You may not realize that saving for your golden years could have an impact on the global climate,… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Much Damage Can a Trump Administration Really Do to Landmark EPA Legislation? The Environmental Protection Agency’s court-backed determination that greenhouse gases are a threat to America’s health and security might… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Is Clear Thinking Morally Superior? Many of us think so, a new study finds, and that could explain why arguments over science and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Is It Harder to Maintain Weight Loss Than to Achieve It? There are many effective diets for losing weight, but the vast majority of dieters have a hard time… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Don’t Lose Sight of the Real Biases in—and Problems With—Our Election System Last week’s claims that votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were hacked appear to have been pretty substantially… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief More Evidence Links Reality Television and Increased Narcissism What hath the Jersey Shore wrought? By Tom Jacobs (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Researchers are starting to suspect… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Big Oil Allies and Beltway Insiders Leading Trump’s Department of the Interior — and How to… Prepare for four years of non-stop assault on public lands and wildlife. By Jimmy Tobias A dam spans… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Will the U.S. Economy Pay a Price for Pulling Out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership? And how America’s exit could impact the global economy. By Dwyer Gunn Barack Obama speaks at a TPP… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Mapping the Early Range of the African Elephant East African elephants poached in the 19th century were lost in time, but a new study aims to… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Hate Crimes Are Way Up—and the FBI Has No Way of Tracking Them Properly There is considerable anxiety about the potential for violence after a bitter national election. The data kept on… Pacific Standard Staff