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To mark the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration announcing its zero-tolerance family separation policy, the group Families Belong Together set up a life-sized cage depicting child separation at the United States–Mexico border on Capitol Hill on May 7th, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

Viewfinder: The One-Year Anniversary of the Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy

To mark the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration announcing its zero-tolerance family separation policy, a life-sized cage was set up by the group Families Belong Together on Capitol Hill.

Pacific Standard Staff

This picture from around 1900 shows Marie Curie (right), her husband Pierre (center), and assistant Edison Petit (left) working in their makeshift laboratory in Paris. Marie Curie and her husband discovered radium and won the Nobel prize for physics in 1903. Marie Curie was the first person to receive two Nobel prizes when she was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1911.

Social Justice

One Way to Fight for Equity in Science: Nominate More Minorities for Big Prizes

Many such prizes don't even come with award money, but they boost people's careers.

Francie Diep

Spike Lee, director of BlacKkKlansman, attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards on February 24th, 2019, wearing the "Love" and "Hate" rings from his 1990 film, Do the Right Thing.

Viewfinder: Spike Lee Attends the Oscars

Spike Lee, director of BlacKkKlansman, attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards, wearing the "Love" and "Hate" rings from his 1990 film, Do the Right Thing.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

A Turtle Scientist Loses His Award After He Shows ‘Scantily Clad Female Students’ in His Acceptance Lecture

The rescinded award comes hot on the heels of a grassroots push, among scientists on social media, to get scientific awards removed from alleged harassers.

Francie Diep

Major Peter Norton GC grips a program in his prosthetic hand as he waits to greet Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (not seen) at the door as he attends the bi-annual service of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association at St Martin-in-the-Fields on May 15th, 2018, in London, England. Major Norton lost an arm and a leg while leading an EOD team in Iraq in 2005.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: An Award Ceremony in London

Major Peter Norton GC grips a program in his prosthetic hand as he waits to greet Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (not seen) at the door as he attends the bi-annual service of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association.

Ashley Hackett

Outside of the journalism building at Columbia University where the Pulitzer Prizes are announced.

PS Picks: The Exceptional Runners-Up for This Year’s Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing

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.

Ian Hurley