January/February 2016

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The reality of a life with diabetes is much more than a matter of malfunctioning bodily organs.

• By Daniel Solomon

Conclusions we come up with ourselves lodge themselves more firmly in our minds—even if they're wrong.

• By Tom Jacobs

Our focus on C-suite executives and venture capital-funded unicorns distracts from the underclass that keeps the San Francisco Bay Area running.

• By Peter C. Baker

And they're called Veblen goods.

• By Peter C. Baker

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

• By Wes Judd

If at first you don't succeed, try and try and try again.

• By Tom Jacobs

More on Jeneen Interlandi, Christopher Leaman, Francie Diep, Joe Eaton, Maya Dusenbery—and how they reported their latest Pacific Standard stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Health economist and professor.

• By Wes Judd

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

• By Kate Wheeling

A preview of the next print issue of Pacific Standard.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Virtually navigating our waterways sounds like a good time to outdoor enthusiasts, but it could also help policymakers monitor a critical natural resource.

• By Kate Greene

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

• By Madeleine Thomas

The 250-year precedent for deploying the United States military to police the nation's citizenry.

• By Ted Scheinman

Can genetic tests restore lost legacies?

• By Peter C. Baker

Are Millennials really partying less often than their parents used to?

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Inherent market bias is one of the factors keeping women off corporate boards—until someone has to take the fall. Welcome to the Glass Cliff.

• By Katie Gilbert

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

• By Francie Diep

The scientific evidence for whether eating too much sugar causes Type 2 diabetes and other diseases.

• By Francie Diep

New York University roboticists are betting that a tiny aquatic machine will inspire the community to care about Brooklyn's neglected Superfund site.

• By Libby Copeland

Key parallels and important distinctions.

• By Francie Diep

David Brower has slipped into semi-obscurity over the years, but he deserves a place in the pantheon of environmental heroes.

• By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The history of hooding has two intertwined strands: forced and voluntary.

• By Peter C. Baker