Jan/Feb 2014

A new study finds that your long-term income could be closely tied to regular exercise.

What you need to know about The Proteus Paradox, For the Benefit of Those Who See, and Promise Land.

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

After growing up watching the benefits of Iraqi oil elude the Iraqi people, a young executive insisted that Norway do things differently.

Popular culture has become obsessed with peering into people's bags. Disclosing the things we carry has become a national pastime. But what are we hiding?

Researchers have found a statistically significant correlation between support for Mitt Romney and a pudgy populace.

There's a name for that: the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

A homecoming in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

After the last presidential election, wide-eyed pundits hailed a brave new era of political campaigning, crediting Obama's victory to his team's wizardry with data. The hype was premature. Here's what the story of 2012 really means for the future of politics.

Trying to lose weight? The color of your crockery could make all the difference.

Exploring subculture in America.

What a 94-year-old athlete and an obsessive albino mouse can teach us about habits.

In Fortune Tellers, Walter Friedman shows not only where our contemporary forecasting ecosystem came from, but also its considerable influence on present-day economic thought and practice.

How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer.

Why you shouldn't be so focused on the final numbers.

The whole idea of a democracy is that the majority is generally supposed to get its way. But time and again, it’s not the majority but a potent minority that drives—or prevents—progress.

Is quantitative analysis the secret to understanding culture?

The names and numbers behind the research in the January/February 2014 print issue of Pacific Standard.

Letters and other responses to stories from the November/December print issue of Pacific Standard.

Meet some of the people behind the January/February 2014 issue of Pacific Standard.

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

Financial literacy promotion may sound perfectly sensible—who wouldn’t want to teach children and adults the secrets of managing money?—but in the face of recent research it looks increasingly like a faith-based initiative.

From Managing Popular Culture? to Social Media in the Pharmaceutical Industry, academic gatherings you should be aware of.

Introducing the January/February 2014 Issue of Pacific Standard.