March/April 2015

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

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.

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

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

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

The burdens of Western wear.

Melvin Konner makes the case for female dominance.

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

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

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.

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

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.

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

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

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

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

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.

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

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

And it's called the Moses Illusion.

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

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

A cruel housing market is the mother of invention.

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