Donald Trump

If I spend enough of my lived experience fighting my way out of lies, I might find myself too exhausted to receive the truth when I'm done.

• By Hanif Abdurraqib

Scientists revise results on a major climate study, Trump supports criminal justice reform, and palm oil production threatens orangutan habitat.

• By Rebecca Worby

A Cornell University government scholar warns that false claims of voter fraud have dangerous long-term implications.

• By Tom Jacobs

President Donald Trump lights a "diya," or oil lamp, as Indian Ambassador to the United States Navtej Singh Sarna looks on during a Diwali ceremony at the White House on November 13th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Multiple civil rights groups sued the administration on Friday, arguing that a new executive policy violates both United States and international law.

• By Jack Herrera

The Trump administration announces new immigration rules, more wildfires erupt in California, and Google changes its sexual misconduct policies in response to walkouts.

• By Rebecca Worby

New research presents evidence of the long-term impact of direct action.

• By Tom Jacobs

Here's how Sessions, who resigned Wednesday at Trump's request, will be remembered.

• By Kate Wheeling

In what many see as a referendum on Trump's immigration policies, voters in several states rejected anti-immigrant platforms and ballot initiatives.

• By Jack Herrera

Political scientist David Faris argues that Tuesday's mid-terms were a clear repudiation of President Donald Trump and his party.

• By Tom Jacobs

So are dogmatic and delusion-prone people, according to new research.

• By Tom Jacobs

The outcome of the race between indicted incumbent Duncan Hunter, a Republican, and Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, could affect President Donald Trump's immigration policy, at least at California's border with Mexico.

• By Emma Sarappo

The campaign to make sense of the mid-term elections will begin almost the moment the polls close on Tuesday, and it will have a substantial effect on 2020.

• By Seth Masket

Polling is mixed on whether voters place much importance on the economy's performance.

• By Dwyer Gunn

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 Ben Rowen
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In a wide-ranging interview, the Orange County representative speaks with Pacific Standard about climate change, DACA, and where he thinks Arnold Schwarzenegger went wrong.

• By Ross Ufberg

Social science (and history) shows that repealing birthright citizenship is rarely an effective solution for an overburdened nation.

• By Emily Moon

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from an interview about news consumption habits to a feature story on how gerrymandering amplified the interests of the right.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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In his two years in office, Trump has done plenty to legitimize views previously considered too extreme for political discourse—and that, in turn, has opened the door for political violence.

• By Jared Keller

Most of them say Trump is to blame for rising pessimism and fear.

• By Emma Sarappo

Reviewing the government's expert testimony, we can see what its strategy will be as the Juliana case comes to trial.

• By Sophie Yeo

No, the state does not really have plenty of water.

• By Kate Wheeling

New research finds overall feelings toward the religious minority did not dampen in the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks.

• By Tom Jacobs