Issue #56: May/June 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Primer There's a Name for That There’s a Name for That: Invisibility Cloak Illusion Stuck inside our heads, we all know how much we're watching others, but fail to grasp just how much everyone else is watching us. Peter C. Baker
Features Issue #56: May/June 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Introducing: The Top 30 Thinkers Under 30 This year's most exciting young thinkers and advocates in policy and social justice. Avital Andrews & Rosie Spinks
Field Notes Issue #56: May/June 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Letter From Hegyeshalom, Hungary: March of the Refugees Volunteering at a refugee crossing. Kastalia Medrano
Features Issue #56: May/June 2017 Magazine Previous Issues The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth What economists around the world get wrong about the future. Christopher Ketcham
Culture Features Issue #56: May/June 2017 Magazine Previous Issues The Culture Pages The Ongoing Revolution to Unite African Literature The Jalada literary collective has a radical mission: an ongoing translation effort to unite— and elevate—African literature. Aaron Bady
Issue #56: May/June 2017 Letter From the Editor Magazine Premium Previous Issues Primer Letter From the Editor: What Makes a Revolutionary Idea Introducing Pacific Standard's May'June 2017 issue. Nicholas Jackson
Issue #56: May/June 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Scenes The Culture Pages A Look Inside the Refugees’ Theatre As the population of displaced Syrians swells in Germany, one storytelling series aims to expedite integration through first-person narrative. Morgan Meaker
Magazine Is Poetry Poised for a Renaissance? Pacific Standard recommends The Poetry of Pop and Simulacra, two new books that challenge the outdated way doomsayers define poetry. Kristina Kutateli
Magazine How Technology Has Already Changed What It Means to Be Human Pacific Standard recommends To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, a new book that profiles members of the transhumanist movement. Kristina Kutateli
Issue #55: March/April 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Primer Quick Studies Trade, Tariffs, and Tooth Decay How lower tariffs lead to people buying more soda. Tom Jacobs