Mar/Apr 2014

After painful life experiences we're more likely to appreciate life's little delights.

Exploring subculture in America.

There's at least one benefit to long-distance relationships.

Increased vigilance isn't necessarily the best way to prevent child-safety issues and injuries.

How a culturally conservative effort in the 1940s backfired to create the greatest engine of pop music in the world.

Are preschool teachers influenced in their evaluations of young children by race?

What you need to know about Words Will Break Cement, The Tyranny of Experts, and You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves.

Gay, straight, single, divorced: Five studies that prove that the who of family matters a lot less than the how when it comes to raising happy, healthy kids.

Psychologists, sociologists, and neuroscientists like Facebook—and Facebook likes them back.

From 1960s Korea, through Brazil, to today's Los Angeles: Inside the world that brought you Forever 21—and those skinny jeans in your closet.

All of those hangovers could be costing the country a lot of workdays.

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

A fellow at the James Randi Educational Foundation, Leo Igwe is running a high-voltage campaign against witchcraft beliefs in Africa. Can he convince us to join his crusade against evils half a world away?

Because we believe in transparency.

How to be an old-fashioned explorer—intrepid, obsessive, khaki-clad—without conquering anything. The secret life of Keith Muscutt.

From Literature and Physical Culture to Banknote 2014, academic gatherings you should be aware of.

You might also recognize it in the subway, library, restroom, and other public spaces where people aren't typically very social.

Updates to pastPacific Standard print stories.

On wearable brain scanners and telepathic toys.

Introducing Ethan Watters, Timothy Noah, Christina Moon, Robert Anasi, Maia Szalavaitz, and Lauren Lancaster.

In the tight-fisted world of fast food, it's not just the workers who get a lousy deal.

Join the conversation.

Is culture just a side effect of the struggle to avoid disease?

From the first day of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the presidential elections in Afghanistan, dates you might want to watch.