News in Brief For-Profit Colleges Are Back From the Brink The Trump administration just handed an olive branch to the battered industry. By Michael Fitzgerald (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What the New Travel Ban Means for Refugees Around the World More than 61,000 people fleeing persecution and violence may have their applications to come live in the United… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How to Debunk Myths About Autism An interview with Andrea Kitta about anti-vaccination, fake news, and the academic discipline that’s seen it all before.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Russia Mulls Banning ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Over Gay Scene At the urging of a member of his country’s ruling political party, Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Case for Democratic Recklessness Democrats may place a greater value on a functioning government than Republicans do—and that’s commendable—but it’s putting the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Roots of Men’s Disinterest in the Arts New research suggests the arts gender gap originates in young boys’ desire to conform to conventional notions of… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Supreme Court Sends Transgender Rights Case Back to Lower Court On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Feminist Architecture Is Challenging Socially Conservative Policy in 2017 An architect currently working on abortion clinics in Mississippi and Alabama discusses how recent TRAP laws and protests… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Viewfinder: Vandalism at Another Jewish Cemetery Members of the Jewish community inspect toppled headstones at Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, on March 5th,… Pacific Standard Staff
Issue #55: March/April 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Primer A Conversation With Our Readers Responses to some of our biggest print and digital stories from the past couple of months. Write to us at letters@psmag.com. Pacific Standard Staff