DEC/JAN 2018

The Mangrove Association and its allies in El Salvador are showing that conservation works best if it has grassroots organizing behind it.

• By Jimmy Tobias

The story of how Anthony Carbajal became a voice of hope for a disease famous for its hopelessness.

• By Justin Heckert

We spoke to Vijay Iyer about what he recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

• By Katie Kilkenny

Walter Cole has spent the past 50 years performing at his club in Portland. During that time he became an icon and leader in the community.

• By Melissa Locker

Jacque Fresco spent decades building a life-sized model of his ideal city. The central idea? If we want the Western world to overcome war, avarice, and poverty, all we need to do is redesign the culture.

• By Barrett Swanson

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli
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How an art installation created by a Ukrainian-American auto-plant worker has become a symbol for the hope and heartbreak of immigrants.

• By Liana Aghajanian

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli
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A story of mythological birds and a murder near the sacred Shiprock volcano in northwest New Mexico.

• By Craig Childs

The poultry industry's secret weapon? Uniquely skilled workers who can identify a chick's gender in the blink of an eye.

• By James McWilliams

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli
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Political writer Liza Featherstone uses focus groups as a lens on the past, present, and future of the American project.

• By Peter C. Baker

Mahachai, Thailand: Burmese migrant workers peel shrimp at a processing factory in Thailand's Samut Sakhon province.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

When it comes to culturally competent elder care, assimilation is not the goal, and everyone is not expected to be the same. Cultural differences are embraced, and fostered.

• By Tyler J. Kelley

Professor John Hoberman turns his attention to cops.

• By Peter C. Baker

To much of the outside world, gambling is a vice not worthy of mercy: It is a symptom of recklessness, of compulsiveness, of greed. But compulsive gambling is also an addiction—one that affects some three to four million people in the United States alone.

• By Max Ufberg

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Journalist Noam Cohen's new book argues that Silicon Valley is a social wrecking ball, but is that perspective enough to create change?

• By Peter C. Baker

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.

• By Kristina Kutateli
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While the painful perception of being stigmatized discourages some potential scholars, a simple act of self-affirmation can substantially close such achievement gaps.

• By Tom Jacobs

In 1567, wealthy citizens who could afford to purchase tickets for England's first National Lottery were guaranteed indemnity from arrest for crimes (excepting murder, treason, piracy, and other felonies).

• By Jack Denton