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Field Notes: The Rusting Remains of a Famous Labor Dispute Site

Rankin, Pennsylvania: Built in the 19th century as part of the Homestead Steel Works complex, the Carrie Furnaces produced up to 1,250 tons of iron per day at their peak in the 1950s and '60s.

Pacific Standard Staff

Instruments of Fate

Caleb Byerly works with indigenous communities to rediscover—and rebuild—their people's lost instruments.

Tony Rehagen

The Endling: Watching a Species Vanish in Real Time

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

Ben Goldfarb

These Two Museums in Georgia Offer Sharply Different Accounts of Stalin’s Legacy

The question of how one society could arrive at such diametrically opposed visions of its own history is one that vexes not just Georgia.

Zack Colman

There’s a Name for That: The Imp of the Perverse

Experiencing unpleasant intrusive thoughts is a common, and unthreatening, phenomenon, but how we deal with it can be dangerous.

Chinelo Nkechi Ikem

Can Art Help People Feel the Devastation of Climate Change?

Miranda Massie hopes the Climate Museum in New York City can convince visitors to be better stewards of the climate—by appealing at once to their intellect and their emotions.

Amy Brady

How Canadian Cops Ended a Decade-Long Fight Over How to Manage the World’s Polar Bears

Over the last 10 years, the poaching and trafficking of animal products has become the fourth-highest-grossing crime in the world. But because wildlife crime is not bound by national borders and each country has its own rules and ideas, its management and policing has become unwieldy at best.

Katherine Laidlaw

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