News in Brief Women in the Arts Get Paid Less Too But they have one advantage over their counterparts in other fields: no motherhood penalty. By Tom Jacobs (Photo:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Donald Trump Is Agribusiness’ Dream Come True The only way to resist is a complete and immediate boycott of all factory farmed animal products. By… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Native American Genes Tell the Story of Europeans’ Arrival Europeans’ arrival in North America left a mark on the population of people already here. A new study… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Big Game: The Reality of Living With College Sexual Assault Living in a Big Ten college town means watching sexual assault in the making every time there’s a… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Eleanor Roosevelt Can Teach Us About Hillary Clinton’s Defeat The parallels between America’s 32nd and 42nd first ladies are hard to push aside. In 2016, would Roosevelt… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Our Environment Affects Our Genes Genes versus culture is not an either-or proposition. By Michael White (Photo: mujitra/Flickr) When we say “it’s genetic,”… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief This Is Why Your Coffee Beans Matter to the Planet A conversation with Fiona Hesselden, a researcher with the Centre for Sustainable and Resilient Communities at the University… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The AT&T/Time Warner Merger and the Threat to Racial Representation We can’t leave underrepresented communities out of media merger debates. By Jason A. Smith An AT&T store is… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Could Bernie Sanders Have Won the White House? What About Joe Biden? As we parse the results of last week’s election, it’s worth remembering that the alternatives were not obviously… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Want Green Infrastructure? First, Invest in Infrastructure That’s not all that needs to be done, but it may be a necessary first step, researchers argue.… Pacific Standard Staff