News in Brief A Former Jill Stein Staffer Says the Senate’s Russia Investigation Committee Is Now Looking Into Her Campaign Campaign employees reportedly used a personal cell phone to facilitate multiple appearances for Stein on RT News. Morgan Baskin
News in Brief How Can an Election Be Hacked? We hear about election hacking all the time, but amid all the noise it's easy to confuse the three distinct ways that a vote can be manipulated. Emefa Addo Agawu
News in Brief Jeff Sessions Testifies Before House Committee on Russia Contacts Records show the attorney general led a 2016 meeting with Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos. Emily Moon
News in Brief Can the Honest Ads Act Fix Facebook? An online consumer-protection expert breaks down the new advertising-disclosure bill working its way through Congress. Jack Denton
News in Brief What Doesn’t Happen in ‘What Happened’ Hillary Clinton's new book about the 2016 election is harsh on misogyny but ignores the role of race and her own policies. Elizabeth King
News in Brief Here’s How Much Money Every Senator Received From Health-Insurance Companies in the Last Election Cycle On average, senators who don't support Bernie Sanders' single-payer plan received more money from insurance companies. Francie Diep
News in Brief The Silencing of Hillary Clinton Addressing the primary criticisms of Clinton's historic run for the presidency. Seth Masket
Issue #58: August/September 2017 Magazine Previous Issues The Fix How to Improve the Primary Process? Make It Less Democratic. It sounds counterintuitive—and would be a hard sell—but making the way the two major political parties nominate candidates less traditionally democratic could also make it more open to compromise and negotiation. Seth Masket
News in Brief Trump’s Poor Legislative Scorecard We’re nearing the 100-day mark and this president has little to show for his time in office. By… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Kellyanne Conway and the Making of an American President I read Molly Ball’s recent Atlantic article on Kellyanne Conway with some trepidation. I’ve grown tired of Conway’s… Seth Masket