A reprint from The Pilgrim.

A reprint from The Pilgrim.

A reprint from The Pilgrim.

The story of the literary magazine whose authors are all homeless.

Personal stories from the residents of Tent City 3.

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.

A look at a growing problem.

In a remote corner of Colorado, a radical experiment is underway to rehabilitate the state's most downtrodden residents.

In the 1940s, the mass-produced tract homes that formed Levittown, New York—one of America's first suburbs—specifically barred "any person other than members of the Caucasian race" in their leases.

For American regional theaters, diversifying their audiences will mean the difference between life and death. But it's not simple or easy.

A portrait of George Washington as slave master.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Broken Relationships gathers its emotional collection from the public—and, in the process, invites civilians of all classes and backgrounds to heal.

We spoke to Joshua Oppenheimer about what he recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

A new book traces the legal history of self-defense in America—and shows how laws for self-protection have been generally reserved for whites.

Two cinematographers are capturing the secret history of a South Atlantic island full of the bones of Liberated Africans.

What, exactly, does teen suicide tell us about America today?

A surprisingly small tweak to the college admissions process yields an impressive increase in the enrollment of low-income students.

Program designers are learning that the words they use really matter.

Automatic enrollment in a non-profit food program keeps more kids from going hungry on the weekends.

Limiting the choices of community college students paradoxically leads to greater academic success.

How behavioral economics is opening a creative new front in the fight against inequality.

Mingaladon Township, Myanmar: Laborers in a brick factory, about an hour's drive from the new hotels and shopping malls of the city of Yangon, get by on $3 per day.

Assam, India: At sunset a fisherman casts his net on a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, where commercial overfishing has made it more difficult to operate.

The largest bell in the world sits in a courtyard at the Kremlin as a 200-ton tourist attraction. It has never been heard—until now, using digital tools.

Desperate for work, the Basotho miners of the sovereign kingdom of Lesotho grudgingly accept the daily degradations of life among the white men.

Reynosa, Mexico: Fresh footprints of migrants dot the bed of a dried pond just south of Mission, Texas, near the Rio Grande.

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.

The latest in a series of miniature portraits of life on the fringes.

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

How just a little bit of cash now can prevent homelessness later.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

The 19th-century British economist Stanley Jevons predicted—correctly—that the invention of more-efficient steam engines would lead to more coal getting burned.

New research adds an unexpected predictor of homelessness to an already-lengthy list.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

There's plenty of (scientific) reason to believe that teenagers aren't nearly as shallow as we often assume.

Write to us at letters@psmag.com.

Is there a bubble? Should we be worried about defaults? Your questions, answered.

Introducing the January/February 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.