AUG 2017

In the words of technology reporters.

• By Morgan Baskin & Jack Denton

In her new book, martial artist Wendy Rouse digs into the history of women fighting back.

• By Peter C. Baker

Intellectual Ventures has put some of the profits from licensing patents into developing breakthrough health-care technologies that nobody else has been able to pursue.

• By Julian Smith

Pacific Standard recommends Sour Heart, a book of short stories exploring race, class, and identity through the voices of young Chinese-American girls growing up in New York City.

• By Kristina Kutateli

In her new book, The Gang's All Queer, Vanessa Panfil offers a detailed and nuanced portrayal of homosexual life among gangs in Ohio.

• By Peter C. Baker

We spoke to the Norwegian musician about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

• By Katie Kilkenny

How the Christian Right is co-opting the women's rights movement to fight contraceptives in Africa.

• By Kathryn Joyce

Pacific Standard recommends Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman.

• By Kristina Kutateli

As political instability roils the Central African Republic, neighbors are accusing neighbors of practicing the dark arts.

• By Laura Angela Bagnetto

"There is a TV crew here from Texas called Infowars. They are the good ones—they are for Trump. Be nice to them."

• By Jacob Kushner

Men are allowed to be mavericks, but women are expected to toe the party line.

• By Tom Jacobs

How one high school—mine—explains why we keep making the same mistakes in our education policy.

• By Michael Hobbes

There's a reason concrete is the world's most widely used synthetic material, and it's not because concrete is great to look at.

• By Morgan Baskin

Borders are arbitrary, but they can feel transcendent.

• By Sarah Baird

Pacific Standard recommends (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, a new book that depicts vlogging as aspirational labor.

• By Kristina Kutateli

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.

• By Seth Masket

In 2012, miners launched a rocket at Spain's civil guard, which, according to press reports, was attempting to halt protests against the government's decision to reduce coal subsidies.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Eva Kor survived Auschwitz and Josef Mengele. Today, she's healing by telling her story.

• By Tony Rehagen

On the nomination of Defense Attorney Larry Krasner for Philadelphia city district attorney.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A new book by a German historian looks at the conflicting history of segregation in commercial air travel.

• By Peter C. Baker

Some doctors' manuals from the 19th century do list Lactuca virosa as a pain reliever, but there's little evidence that it works.

• By Francie Diep

At a funeral in a remote corner of Indonesia, water buffalo are sacrificed in order to help carry the deceased to the afterlife.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Jaguars are crossing the border into the United States, causing a stir among scientists, mining interests, and those bent on building a wall.

• By Alan Weisman

Pacific Standard recommends the new Star Trek, which will include the television series' first black female lead, its first Asian captain, and the first-ever Star Trek character to be conceived of and announced as gay.

• By Kristina Kutateli