News in Brief Subculture: End-of-Life Doulas The latest in a series of miniature portraits of life on the fringes. As Told to Elena Gooray… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Macho Men Still Won’t Seek Out Help In the Western United States, middle-aged men are self-reliant to a fault, which may partially explain the region’s… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How to Inspire Caring and Generosity: Music The answer isn’t blowing in the wind. It’s playing on the soundtrack. By Tom Jacobs Joan Baez and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Should You Trust Your Gut When Judging Emotions? Probably not, according to new research. By Nathan Collins (Photo: designmilk/Flickr) For perhaps the same weird reasons people… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Does Anyone Really Know How to Reduce Health-Care Spending? An organization you’ve probably never heard of is working on it. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Your Microbes, Yourself In his new book, Rodney Dietert argues that it’s time to re-configure our relationship with germs: Instead of… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief American-Led Airstrikes Are Becoming More Deadly for Civilians in Syria Do recent attacks in the U.S.-led air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria signal a troubling new… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Fact-Checking the Crime Statistics in Donald Trump’s Convention Speech The Republican presidential candidate emphasizes an uptick in violent crime—and overlooks some basic facts about crime rates in… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Remember the First Ladies On what the first lady has in common with other mothers across America. By Susannah Howe First Lady… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The NBA Is Relocating the All-Star Game Out of Protest to North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill The National Basketball Association announced today that it will relocate the 2017 All-Star game from Charlotte, North Carolina,… Pacific Standard Staff