Features Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: Old, Sick, and on the Street A sagging economy, a complex job market, and a lack of social programs have led to an increase in the number of elderly people living—and dying—on the streets. Rachel Nuwer
Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Premium Previous Issues Since We Last Spoke Since We Last Spoke: Sugarcoating the Story Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive. Francie Diep
Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Shelf Help The Culture Pages An Ethnography of Self-Harm What, exactly, does teen suicide tell us about America today? Peter C. Baker
Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Primer Research Gone Wild Smells Like Teen Spirit—for Justice There's plenty of (scientific) reason to believe that teenagers aren't nearly as shallow as we often assume. Katie Kilkenny
Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Primer The Conversation: Letters and Other Responses to ‘Pacific Standard’ Stories Write to us at letters@psmag.com. Pacific Standard Staff
Field Notes Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Letter From Los Algodones, Mexico: The City of Dentists A trip to Los Algodones, the town just south of the border where it seems almost everybody is either a dentist or works for one. Jessi Phillips
Features Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues The United States of Homelessness A look at a growing problem. Michael Fitzgerald
Issue #54: January/February 2017 Know It All Magazine Previous Issues Primer Solving the Student-Debt Crisis Is there a bubble? Should we be worried about defaults? Your questions, answered. Malcolm Harris
Features Issue #54: January/February 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Radical Efforts to End Homelessness: A Sober Utopia In a remote corner of Colorado, a radical experiment is underway to rehabilitate the state's most downtrodden residents. Will McGrath
Issue #54: January/February 2017 Letter From the Editor Magazine Premium Previous Issues Primer Letter From the Editor: The Year Ahead for Pacific Standard Introducing the January/February 2017 issue of Pacific Standard. Nicholas Jackson