What Happens When a Black Man Tries to Embrace White Gun Culture
RJ Young's memoir recounts how he tried to endear himself to his white in-laws by learning how to shoot. Both love affairs eventually fell apart.
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Letter From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Nuns vs. Big Gas
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns that define themselves as advocates of Earth, square off against the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
Field Notes: Sunbathing Among the Ruins of a Shipping Vessel
Zante Island, Greece: The remains of a cigarette ship that met its demise in October of 1980.
PS Picks: Nicole Chung’s Debut Book, ‘All You Can Ever Know’
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.
Poet Rickey Laurentiis Challenges the Classics
We spoke to Rickey Laurentiis about what he recommends reading, watching, and listening to.
Desegregated Playtime Gives Heart Health a Boost
It's less likely you'll expand your waistline if you're expanding your horizons.
The Mongolian Wonder Women
In Ulaanbaatar, a small women's rights group is using comic books to nurture Mongolian women's ambitions.
The Country’s First Climate Change Casualties?
Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it—and why they've risked it all on Donald Trump to keep them afloat.
A Journey Through Contested Lands
Introducing Pacific Standard's collaboration with Magnum Photos and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.