News in Brief The Secret Lives of Women Online Private Facebook groups are a new way for women to find sanctuary online, but the consequences of honesty… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How the Man Who Signed Katy Perry And Lorde Is Challenging Wrongful Convictions In his new podcast, Lava Records CEO Jason Flom foregrounds exonerees’ disturbing stories of criminal injustice. He personally… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Fact-Checking Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the Billionaire’s Tax Break When the presidential candidates vowed during the second debate to eliminate the “carried-interest” loophole, they left out some… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Major Climate Deal Will Curb ‘Super Greenhouse Gases’ The legally binding agreement reached in Kigali last week promises to drastically cut the use of hydrofluorocarbons in… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Big Ideas in Social Science: An Interview With Rom Harré on What Is Social Science The latest in a series of conversations with leading intellectuals in collaboration with the Social Science Bites podcast… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Could Volcanoes Have Shaped Human Evolution? If nothing else, the timing is right, according to a new study of volcanoes in the East African… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Big Ideas in Social Science: A Series of Interviews With Leading Intellectuals Introducing a new series in collaboration with the Social Science Bites podcast and the Social Science Space website.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief On Moral Issues, Liberals Ponder and Conservatives Pounce New research suggests people on the left and right make ethical decisions in very different ways. By Tom… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief For the First Time Ever, Bees Are Added to the Endangered Species List Hawaii’s native yellow-faced bees have become the first bees in the U.S. to be protected under the Endangered… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief High School Graduation Rises to a Record High The United States’ high school graduation rate hit a record high of 83.2 percent for the 2014–15 school… Pacific Standard Staff