Ideas

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Pacific Standard’s Ideas section is your destination for idea-driven features, voracious culture coverage, sharp opinion, and enlightening conversation.

Chief Commissioner Marion Buller speaks at the closing ceremony marking the conclusion of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls at the Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, on June 3rd, 2019. After two and a half years of hearings, a Canadian inquiry released its final report on the disappearance and death of hundreds if not thousands of indigenous women, victims of endemic violence that the commission controversially said amounted to "genocide."

Ideas

When Will North America Reckon With the Ongoing Genocide of Indigenous Women?

A two-year study by a Canadian commission has declared that a genocide is taking place—but the only people who seem to care are indigenous.

Terese Marie Mailhot

Jubilee at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

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‘A Dangerous Odyssey’: How the Fisk Jubilee Singers Became an International Sensation

Tazewell Thompson's new play, Jubilee, tells the story of the black singers who braved mob violence to perform all over the world—and thereby save one of America's first black universities.

Ted Scheinman

American flag trump's america chris arnade

In ‘Dignity,’ Chris Arnade Offers an Empathetic Study of Trump’s America

Arnade demonstrates the virtues of a journalism based on empathy. But he also shows that empathy alone is insufficient without a sharper historical and political analysis.

Noah Berlatsky

Nancy Pelosi greets Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration ceremony in 2017.

Ideas

Not Impeaching Has Political Costs Too

As Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats weigh the potential electoral risks of beginning impeachment proceedings, they must also consider the risks of not doing so.

Seth Masket

‘Any Attempt to Claim Orwell for the Right Is Dishonest’: An Interview With Dorian Lynskey

The author of "The Ministry of Truth" discusses Orwell's fight for democratic socialism—and the unfortunate misconceptions that can still dog his memory.

Alexander Bisley

Nationalism and climate change, Easter Island

What If Climate Change and Rising Nationalism Both Had the Same Solution?

Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change—which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same.

Louise Fabiani