News in Brief When American Radicals Take Over the Berlin Bienniale At this year’s Berlin Bienniale, the organizers address war, terror, and migration via virtual reality and drones—while elevating… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Lost in Space: Re-Claiming Awe in the Age of Social Media At a time when we desperately need to care about Earth and the efforts to adjust our relationship… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Of Mice and Minions: Why Are All the Cartoon Animals Male? I went to see The Secret Life of Pets to support the basset hound. I came away mad… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Can Fergie’s New Hit Song Empower Moms? No, but she’s not necessarily disempowering women either. Katie Kilkenny
News in Brief Why Is Everyone Going Crazy Over ‘Pokémon Go’? We should have guessed this would happen, considering the research literature. By Francie Diep Deputy Editor Ryan Jacobs… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Radical Politics of Keeping Your Head in the Clouds How Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s Cloud Appreciation Society furthers a proud political tradition of doing nothing. By Colette Shade Stare… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Only Good Tarzan Is a Bad Tarzan Nobody wants The Legend of Tarzan—perhaps because Americans aren’t ready for a Tarzan with woke politics. By Aaron… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Don’t Look to the Movies to Learn About Disability The next time you meet a disabled person, throw the films you’ve watched about them out the window… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup So Long to Go Mainstream? Its long, sputtering history tells us that we change what we use only after we change how we think. Natalie Shure
News in Brief Elie Wiesel and the Unbearable Heaviness of History How the Holocaust survivor and beloved author of Night challenged the way students think about history. Jared Keller