News in Brief One Man’s Quest to Save the Forests of Tanzania Tumaini Matinda sacrifices his personal time, money, and energy to patrol the forests in northern Tanzania for illegal… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Unreliable and Unchallenged: Police Continue to Use Faulty Drug Kits Years after the Las Vegas crime lab wanted to replace faulty police drug kits, they are still used… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Next Flint Water Crisis A new study suggests a number of minority American neighborhoods are at risk of having unhealthier water than… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Field Notes: San Salvador, El Salvador An anti-gang intervention police unit stops and searches a group of young men for weapons in a neighborhood… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Meet a Polling Analyst Who Got the 2016 Election Totally Wrong Sam Wang opens up about political forecasting, eating crickets on live television, and what we can all learn… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Ebola May Not Always Have Symptoms A new study finds about 25 percent of cases in one Sierra Leone village went undetected. By Nathan… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Are the Economic Costs of Deportation? A new paper quantifies how deportation could hurt the economy. By Dwyer Gunn A migrant farm worker harvests… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What History Tells Us About the Time of Trump A Boston College historian helps explain how we got to the present moment, and warns of what could… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Extraordinary Effects of Dust on Global Weather Various parts of the world are becoming hotter, drier, and dustier—and when excess dust from these drylands gets… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Almost All Illegal Ivory Is Coming From Recently Killed Elephants Tusks in illegal seizures usually come from elephants killed within the last three years and rarely from old… Pacific Standard Staff