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PS Picks: Hulu’s ‘Harlots,’ a Show That Foregrounds the Concerns of Women Above All Else

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.

Angela Serratore

Since We Last Spoke: The Stubborn Gender Gap

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

Pacific Standard Staff

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.

PS Picks: German Playwright Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Love and Intrigue’

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.

Angela Serratore

Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

A portrait of the stressed and shrinking American middle class.

Peter C. Baker

The Shifting Demographics of Domestic Violence

New research shows that current boyfriends or girlfriends are more likely than spouses to engage in certain types of violent behavior.

Tom Jacobs

The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)

Ken Auletta's latest book explores the chaotic world of contemporary advertising.

Peter C. Baker

Objects That Matter: Taxidermy

Arsenic was long a preservative in the taxidermic process, despite criticism of the method as unnecessarily dangerous. But at least one contemporary scholar has suggested that metabolized arsenic extended the lives of late 19th-century taxidermists by decades.

Jack Denton

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