News in Brief Here’s What Congress Traded for Today’s Threatened Zika Bill The White House has already promised to veto Wednesday night’s Zika bill, which snuck by a vote in… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Thanks to Today’s Immigration Decision, Crimes Will Go Unreported One thing can be said with certainty about today’s Supreme Court decision on immigration: As a result, more… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Look at the Science as the Supreme Court Rules on Affirmative Action The Supreme Court ruled today that the University of Texas may consider race in its admissions. The decision… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Just How Bad Is the Santa Barbara Wildfire? As California enters its fifth year of severe drought, an ongoing wildfire in Santa Barbara County has prompted… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Santa Barbara Wildfire Continues to Grow A wildfire in Santa Barbara, California, has more than tripled in size, growing from 1,200 acres on Thursday… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief More News of Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels For the first time in four million years, carbon dioxide levels in the South Pole exceeded 400 parts… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Colorado Makes a Splash in Interrogation Law Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper recently signed into law a bill that will require Colorado law enforcement to electronically… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief We’re One Step Closer to Having Women Register for the Draft The United States Senate overwhelmingly approved a defense bill on Tuesday that would, for the first time, require… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The World Health Organization Still Doesn’t See Zika as Reason to Move the Olympics From Rio The World Health Organization’s emergency committee on Zika re-asserted its stance today against moving or postponing this summer’s… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Phil Bryant’s Solidarity Must Be Taken With a Grain of Salt To center our reaction to the tragedy in Florida around ideological terrorism is to ignore an uncomfortable truth:… Pacific Standard Staff