News in Brief Can ‘Westworld’ Give Us New Ways of Talking About Slavery? In its first four episodes, HBO’s latest Sunday-night extravaganza takes its postcolonialism seriously. By David Perry Westworld. (Photo: HBO)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Seeking My Sister in an Afghan War Memorial Eight years after my sister died in Kabul, I return to the temporary Artists Transforming Afghanistan exhibit in… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Ghosts and the American Conscience “The slave ships to the Americas are still sailing,” intoned the historian Marcus Rediker, “only they’re ghost ships… Oliver Lee Bateman
News in Brief The Creeping Tyranny of ‘Designated Survivor’ Kiefer Sutherland returns for another round of neoconservative revenge fantasy. By Jared Keller Designated Survivor. (Photo: ABC) In 1862,… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Maybe Parents Should Have Guarded Their Kids From ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Another study indicates that PG-13 movies are selling explicit and realistic violence to kids—at levels surpassing that of R-rated films. Katie Kilkenny
News in Brief Presidential Movies: A Flattery Scale Last month’s Southside With You joins a long line of fawning narratives about American presidents — a list that offers… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief North Korea’s Rising Video Bloggers Foreigners can access a variety of sites and channels that offer glimpses of life in the DPRK. But… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief California Moves to End Hollywood Age Discrimination Governor Jerry Brown has passed a law requiring entertainment databases to remove age information upon subscribers’ request—which will ultimately allow more actresses to lie about their age. Katie Kilkenny
News in Brief Poland’s Memory Problem The country’s new conservative government ushers in a troubling approach to curating Poland’s legacy. By Dara Bramson Jan… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Stranger in the House of Memory Of the many experts who figured in Henry Molaison’s life, one man would change him into amnesiac patient… Pacific Standard Staff