Ted Scheinman, Author at Pacific Standard

The Life You Save May Be Everyone Else’s

Fresh research on Facebook, fellowship, and “suicide clusters.”

Testimonials from two decades of Washington, D.C.’s weirdest night.

Why the state needs to crack down on its predatory prosecutors—fast.

Forget money and the mom-vote—it's a question of charisma.

Amid drug shortage, states look to shady distributors—with disastrous results.

A reformed drug dealer on the prisons of North Carolina.

How sleight-of-hand—and obsessive-compulsive disorder—helped the guitarist shake 30 years of addiction.

A conversation about Picasso, Sigmund Freud, farm animals, and Hunter S. Thompson.

Rereading the late senator in a post-Edward Snowden and Julian Assange era.

Brutalism on screen—and its moral repercussions.