How the Christian Right is co-opting the women's rights movement to fight contraceptives in Africa.

How one high school—mine—explains why we keep making the same mistakes in our education policy.

Jaguars are crossing the border into the United States, causing a stir among scientists, mining interests, and those bent on building a wall.

The author and vocal CNN commentator on Donald Trump, spirit quests, and the Nelson Mandela factor in political activism.

In her new book, martial artist Wendy Rouse digs into the history of women fighting back.

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.

In her new book, Vanessa Panfil offers a detailed and nuanced portrayal of homosexual life among gangs in Ohio.

We spoke to Jenny Hval about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

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.

As political instability roils the Central African Republic, neighbors are accusing neighbors of practicing the dark arts.

More than 130 Berliners died trying to cross the "death strip," the no-man’s-land between two massive concrete walls that divided their city for nearly 30 years.

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.

Eva Kor survived Auschwitz and Josef Mengele. Today, she's healing by telling her story.

A new book by a German historian looks at the conflicting history of segregation in commercial air travel.

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.

When Carl Sagan's team sent two gold-plated records into space in 1977, it wanted to make alien contact. Forty years later, those time capsules are hurtling beyond the reaches of the Solar System, still seeking intelligent life.

In the words of technology reporters.

Intellectual Ventures has put some of the profits from licensing patents into developing breakthrough health-care technologies that nobody else has been able to pursue.

It sounds counterintuitive—and would be a hard sell—but making the way the two major political parties nominate candidates less traditionally democratic could also make it more open to compromise and negotiation.

"There is a TV crew here from Texas called Infowars. They are the good ones—they are for Trump. Be nice to them."

Borders are arbitrary, but they can feel transcendent.

San Martín Del Rey Aurelio, Spain: In 2012, miners launched a rocket at Spain's civil guard, which, according to press reports, was attempting to halt protests against the government's decision to reduce coal subsidies.

Tana Toraja, Indonesia: At a funeral in a remote corner of Indonesia, water buffalo are sacrificed in order to help carry the deceased to the afterlife.

Each time the electricity powers off in Kathmandu, thousands of diesel generators rumble to life, spewing noxious particulate matter, or PM2.5.

Matthews Range, Kenya: From a perch in the Matthews Range, members of the Samburu, a tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists, look down at the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, which they're working to protect from elephant poachers.

Men are allowed to be mavericks, but women are expected to toe the party line.

"Only a small percent actually ventured out to slit our collective throats with their votes."

Some doctors' manuals from the 19th century do list Lactuca virosa as a pain reliever, but there's little evidence that it works.

A study found that 11-year-olds who demonstrated medium or high academic ability were more likely to smoke cannabis at ages 18 to 20.

Public restrooms are sparking moral panic nationwide, and not for the first time. What, exactly, makes shared bathrooms so ripe for controversy? And what can we do about it?

According to a recent research, law enforcement often leverages a powerful psychological susceptibility—the "emotional seesaw effect"—that potentially has widespread application.

Introducing Pacific Standard's August/September 2017 issue.