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A view of the Harlem Valley from the Appalachian Trail in Pawling, New York.

Letter From Pawling, New York: An Afternoon at Nuclear Lake

A secluded, Edenic lake just a mile off the Appalachian Trail was once the site of a fight in which locals tried hard to keep people away from what they believed to be an environmental menace. Were they right to?

Colin Dickey

The Limits of Home Cooking

A richly reported new book offers powerful insights into the cooking habits—and daily struggles—of working-class Americans.

Peter C. Baker

Field Notes: A Makeshift Village Outside of a Major Tin Mining Site

Kabare Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo: The settlements at the Kachuba mining site in South Kivu.

Pacific Standard Staff

How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science Are Ruining Good Mental Health Care

In Saving Talk Therapy, Enrico Gnaulati argues that in-depth, long-term, interpersonal psychotherapy remains one of the best tools for alleviating emotional suffering.

Peter C. Baker

PS Picks: Wendy Guerra’s ‘Revolution Sunday’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

Gains for Gene Drives

Just because we have CRISPR doesn't necessarily mean we should use it.

Pacific Standard Staff

Letter From the Yukon Territory: A Rare Case of River Piracy Threatens an Entire Community

For the people who live along Canada's Kluane Lake, it doesn't matter whether the Slims River was the first or the 10th or the 100th river to be stolen by climate change.

Eva Holland

Off the Map

In 2013, when FEMA redrew flood maps for the coast of Maine to account for more powerful hurricanes, some of the new high-risk zones were not only inaccurate, but expensive and difficult to correct. Wealthy vacation towns could easily foot the bill, protecting access to development dollars, but many struggling fishing villages could not.

Annie Avilés

Can Tighter Packaging Lower Sperm Counts?

A new study isn't enough to resolve decades of debate, even if many media outlets reported it that way.

Jack Herrera

Field Notes: Preparing for a Women’s Soccer Match in Tanzania

Jumbi, Zanzibar, Tanzania: The Green Queens warm up ahead of a match. Men on the island have long resisted women's presence on the field, but a small cadre is challenging traditional gender norms.

Pacific Standard Staff