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A neon Texas state flag on display at the Institute of Texan Culture in San Antonio, Texas.

Social Justice

‘Texas Is Where Everything Comes to an End’: Author Lawrence Wright on Texas’ Unique Past—and Its Precarious Future

A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winner on how the Lone Star State's unique culture came to develop in the first place, and how it's evolved alongside the state's economy.

Caitlin Cruz

How to Protect Rare Books and Manuscripts From the Ravages of Climate Change

Almost all American archives are at risk from disasters or changing temperatures. Community history will probably be the first to go.

Sophie Yeo

Social Justice

The Rust Belt Isn’t a Riddle; It’s a Home

A new essay collection showcases Rust Belt writers on topics like desegregation, clean water, racism, classism, and what it's like to be misunderstood by the coasts.

Leah Angstman

Where Freedom Starts / Not That Bad Roxane Gay / Color of Violence

Social Justice

How Do We Take Down Rape Culture? Telling Stories Is Just the Beginning.

Considering a new anthology of stories about rape culture—and two other anthologies about how to end it.

Rebecca Stoner

Dispatches: ‘Pacific Standard’ at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

Elena Gooray

Joan Didion on March 29th, 2007, in New York City.

PS Picks: Michelle Dean’s ‘Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion’

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.

Kristina Kutateli

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to United Kingdom Independence Party leader Nigel Farage during a campaign rally at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 24th, 2016.

Education

Is Democracy Really Dying?

Three new books offer bracing lessons from European and Latin American history to help explain rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and beyond.

Bridey Heing

The Lede, Issue #13: The Problem With Sensitivity Readers, Failure at the EPA, the State of Unions in America, and More

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Pacific Standard Staff

Education

The History of the World According to David Brooks

Brooks depends on a lazy and ignorant story about tribalism to bolster a specific myth about American exceptionalism.

Malcolm Harris

Social Justice

What ‘Fabulous’ Means to the Queer Community

A new book by the culture critic madison moore argues that an aesthetic of "fabulousness" allows queer people to reclaim visibility through flamboyance.

Brandon Tensley