The writer and director explains what she learned by putting the true story of her childhood sexual abuse on screen.

• By John-Manuel Andriote

The author (and puppeteer) discusses climate change, discrimination, and how to write science fiction with a happy ending.

• By David M. Perry

In many Native American communities, there's a fear that any knowledge shared with scientists could end up in published reports—which could, in turn, lead to a familiar story of plundering.

• By Terri Hansen

The new documentary series promised compassion for sufferers of poorly understood chronic illnesses. Instead, it peddled the tired narrative that their suffering is "all in their heads."

• By Maya Dusenbery

Many in the community live on land that is classified as "heir's property," a legal condition that leaves it particularly vulnerable, especially in a disaster.

• By Laura Bliss

Advocates see this as a concrete signal to the scientific community that bad behavior won't be tolerated.

• By Francie Diep

The government is reportedly sending undocumented immigrants court summonses with false dates that rights defenders say are designed to skirt a recent Supreme Court ruling.

• By Massoud Hayoun

The poorest victims of Duterte's War on Drugs find themselves caught in a cycle of extrajudicial killings and police impunity in Manila's cemetery slums.

• By Lynzy Billing

In an offhand remark, the embattled comedian implied a correlation between Down syndrome and emotional apathy—and, in the process, he reinforced an old and hateful stereotype.

• By David M. Perry

Conflicts between Eritrea, Djibouti, and Ethiopia have dramatically shifted in recent months, giving hope for an end of hostilities in the region.

• By Martin Plaut

High-ranking officials said on Tuesday that they did not feel qualified to speak on the growing mountain of warnings that detention could be permanently harming children.

• By Jack Herrera

The complaint alleges Facebook discriminated against women and non-binary people by allowing employers to target men in job advertisements.

• By Emily Moon

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. will accept only 30,000 refugees in 2019.

• By Jack Herrera

The outcome of this year's election will likely set the stage for the murky years to come, be those years of recovery—or persistent chaos.

• By Chayenne Polimédio

Pacific Standard spoke with an inmate in Lee Correctional Institution as he and other prisoners prepared for the storm.

• By Jack Herrera

Prisoners in the hurricane's path will not be evacuated—and many are outraged.

• By Jack Herrera

Three organizations collected reports from Puerto Ricans who believed their loved ones died as a result of Hurricane Maria but whose death certificates didn't indicate storm conditions as a cause of death.

• By Francie Diep

This season, works by women composers are being featured more frequently by many American orchestras. Mozart and Schubert, meet Mazzolli and Shaw.

• By Tom Jacobs

A new report from the United Nations finds that there has been a sharp increase of instances of physical violence and legal prosecution against indigenous peoples in countries across the globe.

• By Mike Gaworecki

A former inmate discusses the organization and demands behind the recent nationwide prison strike.

• By Arvind Dilawar

After making a tool that tracks how well drug testers follow U.S. law, researchers turned to an even bigger market for drug trials: the European Union.

• By Francie Diep

A new policy allowing Immigration Services employees to summarily dismiss green card applications has raised concerns among immigration lawyers and large corporations.

• By Kavitha Surana

At the right moment, a cussing candidate can be attractive, especially to voters who are mad as all get out.

• By Ross Ramsey

A group of immigration judges is skeptical about the attorney general's promise to add more to their ranks—part of an apparent attempt to slash a growing backlog of cases.

• By Massoud Hayoun