Jan/Feb 2017

Mingaladon Township, Myanmar: Laborers in a brick factory, about an hour's drive from the new hotels and shopping malls of the city of Yangon, get by on $3 per day.

The latest in a series of miniature portraits of life on the fringes.

In the 1940s, the mass-produced tract homes that formed Levittown, New York—one of America's first suburbs—specifically barred "any person other than members of the Caucasian race" in their leases.

Assam, India: At sunset a fisherman casts his net on a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, where commercial overfishing has made it more difficult to operate.

In every print issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

How just a little bit of cash now can prevent homelessness later.

For American regional theaters, diversifying their audiences will mean the difference between life and death. But it's not simple or easy.

A reprint from The Pilgrim.

A reprint from The Pilgrim.

A reprint from The Pilgrim.

The story of the literary magazine whose authors are all homeless.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

A surprisingly small tweak to the college admissions process yields an impressive increase in the enrollment of low-income students.

Program designers are learning that the words they use really matter.

A portrait of George Washington as slave master.

Automatic enrollment in a non-profit food program keeps more kids from going hungry on the weekends.

The largest bell in the world sits in a courtyard at the Kremlin as a 200-ton tourist attraction. It has never been heard—until now, using digital tools.

Limiting the choices of community college students paradoxically leads to greater academic success.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Broken Relationships gathers its emotional collection from the public—and, in the process, invites civilians of all classes and backgrounds to heal.

How behavioral economics is opening a creative new front in the fight against inequality.

Personal stories from the residents of Tent City 3.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

We spoke to Joshua Oppenheimer about what he recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

The 19th-century British economist Stanley Jevons predicted—correctly—that the invention of more-efficient steam engines would lead to more coal getting burned.