The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Ken Auletta's latest book explores the chaotic world of contemporary advertising.
Objects That Matter: Taxidermy
Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.
PS Picks: Porochista Khakpour's Unflinchingly Honest New Memoir
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A Cure for White Fragility
A new book argues that we can't overcome racism unless white people are willing to be a little uncomfortable.
Marvel Screenwriter Nicole Perlman Shatters the Glass Ceiling for Women in Sci-Fi
We spoke to Nicole Perlman about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.
PS Picks: The New 'Under One Roof' Exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum
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Instruments of Fate
Caleb Byerly works with indigenous communities to rediscover—and rebuild—their people's lost instruments.
These Two Museums in Georgia Offer Sharply Different Accounts of Stalin's Legacy
The question of how one society could arrive at such diametrically opposed visions of its own history is one that vexes not just Georgia.
Can Art Help People Feel the Devastation of Climate Change?
Miranda Massie hopes the Climate Museum in New York City can convince visitors to be better stewards of the climate—by appealing at once to their intellect and their emotions.
Keeping Up With the Bundys: What Really Happened at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge
A new book with an imperfect narrator demonstrates the benefits—and limits—of taking right-wing extremists at their word.
Objects That Matter: Bears Ears
No other president in the last 50 years has attempted to shrink the national monuments designated by his predecessors.
How Women's Studies Is Helping Rural Teens Fix Their Social Culture
With her pioneering courses, Annie Delgado is filling in the gaps left by more traditional curricula.
An Afghan Variety Show on the Bay
Talk shows, live music, and romantic advice: how a quirky television station helps us understand cultural diasporas.
Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison 'Promiscuous' Women
Behind the nationwide program that empowered health authorities to surveil women, quarantine them in miserable conditions, and force them to undergo painful and ineffective treatments.
Documentary Filmmaker Amy Ziering's Politics of Empowerment and Change
We spoke to Amy Ziering about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.
A Theory (on Bullshit Jobs)
With help from readers who wrote to him about their workplace experiences, anthropologist David Graeber develops a taxonomy of bullshit jobs.
PS Picks: 'Ocean's 8' and Other Upcoming Female-Led Films
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Inside the Theater of Complicity
In SupremacyLand, visitors are forced to examine how they respond to overt expressions of racial bigotry.
PS Picks: The American Black Film Festival
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PS Picks: Kaitlin Prest's Radiotopia Podcast 'The Heart'
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PS Picks: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion'
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One Last Decade
How the world has—and hasn't—changed since Pacific Standard's first Issue.
The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
Historian Annelise Orleck traveled to Mexico, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, plus all across America, to interview low-wage workers fighting for better conditions and pay.
PS Picks: Katie Watson's 'Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion'
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