Why Do Most Orca Pregnancies End in Miscarriage? Look Upstream.
Orcas are losing their babies at an unprecedented rate. The solution may lie 400 miles away.
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The Last Jews of Cochin, India
Their numbers are dwindling in a seaside town that once gave them refuge—but their culture remains.
Why There’s No End in Sight for Myanmar’s Rohingya Exodus
The severity and speed with which the current crisis is escalating threatens to make it the worst flare-up of mass migration the country has seen in decades.
Trump’s ‘Economic Nationalism’ Has Nothing to Do With Economics
But it's got everything to do with xenophobia.
The Perilous Future of Earth’s Parasites
Climate change may drive as many as one in three parasite species extinct by 2070. That's very bad.
No, We Should Not Involuntarily Commit the Homeless During Hurricanes
Only a broken system locks up homeless people to keep them safe.
How One Agency Is Fixing American Amnesia About Reconstruction
A new initiative by the National Park Service seeks to designate sites for their historic significance in the Reconstruction era. It's a bold and vital move for an agency that has only recently begun to seriously address the racial complexities of the Civil War.
Satanists Are Suing Missouri: How We Got Here
The convoluted history of religious exemption in the United States.
Two Experts Weigh in on the ‘Division of Labor’ in the Alt-Right Movement
Pacific Standard spoke with experts on right-wing studies about just how different the alt-right and the new right actually are, and how they both misunderstand free speech.