News in Brief How Asian Beauty Replaced French Beauty for American Aesthetes The crossover of Asian skincare and beauty aesthetics into American culture is more than a passing trend — it’s a… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Another State, Another Inequitable School Funding Formula Yesterday, a judge ruled that major reforms are needed to Connecticut’s public schools and school funding formulas. By… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why the Media Should Report on Shooters and Terrorists It’s the job of journalists, and we owe it to our readers. By Joanne Zalatoris A memorial to… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Discrimination by Design The many ways design decisions treat people unequally. By Lena Groeger Original Home Owners’ Loan Corporation redlined map… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Friends Make Us Happy on Facebook Surprise: The more engaged and supportive our friends are, the better we feel. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Chris… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief When It Comes to Fighting Obesity, It Takes a Village Typically, when we analyze something like obesity, we tend to downplay the communitarian element. Americans value the individualist… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Shooting Down One Excuse for Why Women Make Less Data from Australia suggests females do indeed ask for raises, but are less likely than men to receive… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Malawi’s Secret Weapon Against HIV: Male Circumcision The small African country has significantly lowered its rates of HIV/AIDS — in no small part through circumcising men and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Lone Pine Following Japan’s 2011 earthquake, a furious tsunami swept away an entire forest of pine in the city of… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Frank Ocean’s ‘Blond(e)’: A Historic Throwback, and a Crucial Album for 2016 Ocean’s latest channels black existentialism, a 20th-century philosophy with a remarkably contemporary outlook on the social and political… Pacific Standard Staff