March/April 2015

The top young thinkers in economics, education, political science, and more.

• By Avital Andrews

A bit more about Rachel Rabkin Peachman, Maia Szalavitz, Alastair Gee, Jessica Weisberg, and Sally Satel—and how they reported their latest Pacific Standard stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Requests for consumers to shift their electrical usage when the power grid is strained can have "perverse effects."

• By Tom Jacobs

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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 burdens of Western wear.

• By Dawn Marie Knopf

Melvin Konner makes the case for female dominance.

• By Graeme Wood

Raising cattle won't wreck the environment—if we do it right.

• By Temple Grandin

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

How does it feel to be the biological parent of your sister's child or the aunt of the children you birthed? Americans are finding out.

• By Rachel Rabkin Peachman

The Harmony Project finds that regular music lessons can have many benefits.

• By Tom Jacobs

Join the conversation by writing letters@psmag.com. If you would like us to consider your letter—which will be edited—for publication, please include your name, city, and state.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Can the lessons of small-town North Dakota be applied to the big city?

• By C.J. Bartunek

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Girls with depressed mothers are much more likely to develop depression themselves—but there might be a solution.

• By Jennifer Kahn

Where are college students and the mentally ill most likely to pick up a cigarette habit?

• By Peter C. Baker

Much of the forbidden, obscure, and esoteric knowledge that once made Buddhism and other religions difficult to study has now become accessible—with potentially dangerous results.

• By Spencer Orey

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Hug longer, become a better listener, and stay together—at any cost.

• By Jessica Weisberg

And it's called the Moses Illusion.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The rigged economics of race in America, in five studies.

• By Kathleen Geier

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A cruel housing market is the mother of invention.

• By Kyle DeNuccio

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff