At 18, Eric Udorie's written about gender rights-related topics for major publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, Fusion.

• By Rosie Spinks

The technology has its roots in 1950s Soviet Russia.

• By Malcolm Harris

"Being an academic requires the courage to stand behind good ideas despite opposition," says Zhang, who is on our list of the top 30 thinkers under 30.

• By Avital Andrews

Tasche's work directly challenges a lot of the reductionist narratives that swirl around politics and, by extension, the media that covers it.

• By Rosie Spinks

"I honestly think that it will take a person with autism to find the 'cure' to autism, so that the world understands that autism doesn't need to be cured," Toliver says.

• By Avital Andrews

Although inventing the bra was barely an adolescent pit stop on Mary Phelps Jacobs' glamorous trajectory, it did suggest what she would get up to next.

• By Malcolm Harris

Ruth Graves Wakefield, the woman who invented the chocolate chip cookie, was something closer to the Martha Stewart of her day.

• By Malcolm Harris

If the world is a global marketplace, Shi's research tries to help make it more efficient and equitable by applying mathematics to assess and improve the way we make decisions.

• By Rosie Spinks

Boats were, in fact, a proposed alternative solution.

• By Malcolm Harris

When asked whether he feels people doubt him more because he's young, Slat says, "Yes, but I never felt youth to be a disadvantage."

• By Avital Andrews

"We have a gaping hole, a desperate need for young women in government," says Schrode, who is on this year's list of the top 30 thinkers under 30.

• By Avital Andrews

Safford is committed to applying her talents and work ethic to a noble and necessary goal: using policy to change the way we think about human existence.

• By Rosie Spinks

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli

Public support for criminal registries has grown despite inconsistent evidence that they reduce crime, which social scientists attribute to a human need to feel a sense of control over threats.

• By Meghan Walsh

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli

Erik Love's new book is invaluable for its detailed chronicle of Muslim-American activism.

• By Peter C. Baker

Jennifer Latson's debut illustrates a boy's coming-of-age, complicated by a genetic disorder that strips peoples' social inhibitions.

• By Peter C. Baker

Richard Rothstein's magisterial new book tracks how the government segregated America—and how new policy, and new education, could save us.

• By Peter C. Baker

In their California comedy show, couple Robin Tran and Cate Gary share their complex love story—and normalize comedy about gender transitions in the process.

• By Jennifer Purdie

We spoke to Anita Kunz about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

• By Katie Kilkenny

The Jalada literary collective has a radical mission: an ongoing translation effort to unite— and elevate—African literature.

• By Aaron Bady

As the population of displaced Syrians swells in Germany, one storytelling series aims to expedite integration through first-person narrative.

• By Morgan Meaker

John Lott is a one-man pro-gun research machine whose work has been cited nearly 200 times by the National Rifle Association. The problem? Many of his peers have major misgivings about his methods.

• By Peter Moskowitz

And the federal government can't do much about it.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Lira, Uganda: Prisoners, many of whom claim to be juveniles, line up for dinner at Lira Prison. Poor birth records make it difficult for Ugandan prison officials to remove younger prisoners from adult facilities.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Goseong, South Korea: A South Korean soldier looks over the DMZ from a guard position on top of Observation Post 717, on the edge of the North Korean border.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Delicate Arch is the most famous rock formation in Arches National Park—and, almost certainly, in the entire state of Utah.

• By Eva Holland

Jharia, India: An underground fire, which locals say first started in an abandoned mine here in 1916, still burns as workers tap the remaining supply of coal.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Exploring the rising tensions between Chicago police and citizens.

• By Peter C. Baker

Volunteering at a refugee crossing.

• By Kastalia Medrano

"No one wants to have to explain to their children why Santa was put out of work."

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Why do we keep reaching for them as a quick health fix when the science says they're not so special?

• By Michael Fitzgerald

Parents are more comfortable with corporal punishment when gentler language is used to describe it.

• By Tom Jacobs

A reduction roughly equivalent to a dose of morphine.

• By Tom Jacobs

Research shows that, while people feel more in control after a "power pose," there are no significant changes in their overall behavior.

• By Sarah Witman

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.

• By Peter C. Baker

Introducing Pacific Standard's May'June 2017 issue.

• By Nicholas Jackson