News in Brief How Women Are Going From Climate Victims to Climate Leaders Women are disproportionately affected by climate change across the globe. At COP22, they demanded the opportunity to be… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Six Core Emotional Arcs That Underlie Our Favorite Fiction A big-data analysis suggests even complex tales rest on a few fundamental emotional storylines. By Tom Jacobs Actor… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Fixing the Gender Imbalance in the Back Rooms of the U.N. Climate Talks Women bear the harshest effects of climate change and also hold the keys to solving it. Yet at… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Has the Economy Fared Under Obama? A quick primer on the last eight years. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) On Friday, the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The World Unites Behind the Green Economy—Most of It Anyway As President-elect Donald Trump seeks a quick exit from the Paris Climate Accord, the international community at the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Sheriff Gets His Man A mustachioed Ohio lawman who rails against undocumented immigrants is suddenly less of a fringe figure. He embodies… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Industrialization Brought About the Decline of Vertebrate Species New research hints that contemporary habitat losses may have initiated population declines of around 95 percent in some… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Since We Last Spoke: Dangerous Waters New twists on past stories. By Francie Diep (Photo: Chuck Espinoza; Model: Elaine Rensing; Stylist: Mark Starr; Make-Up:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Implicit Racism in Magazines There’s an underlying bias against people of color in national magazines aimed at a female readership. By Tom… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Supreme Court Gamble That Paid Off Bigly Republicans have successfully kept President Obama from appointing a ninth member of the Supreme Court, but that’s a… Pacific Standard Staff