News in Brief Guest Programmer: Joelle Dobrow Joelle Dobrow is a former producer-director of non-fiction television, and a member of the Original Six, a group… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Inside Cambodia’s Future Floating Arts Center An ambitious attempt to elevate Phnom Penh’s arts scene. By Dara Bramson (Photos: The Boat) The Cambodian captain navigates… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Survival Tales From the Ex-Gay Movement Two memoirs underline the emotional and moral dangers of ex-gay conversion therapy. By Ross Ufberg Garrard Conley. (Photo:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Field Notes: Agbogbloshie, Ghana Two teenagers burn the plastic and rubber off of copper wiring in a vast e-waste dump. The slum… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Subculture: End-of-Life Doulas The latest in a series of miniature portraits of life on the fringes. As Told to Elena Gooray… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief One Last Thing: The Prison Tattoo Captivity will beget invention. Modern American prisoners can jury-rig tattoo machines out of objects available at the commissary.… Ted Scheinman
News in Brief In the Picture: On the Couch in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn In every print issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief When Outsourcing Turns Deadly Hospitals should keep their cleaning teams in-house if they want to prevent unnecessary infection. By Tom Jacobs (Illustration:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Pause in the Protest Ritual chaos — and strange beauty — at the wall separating Israel and Palestine. By Mateo Hoke A picture taken on… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief There’s a Name for That: Willpower Paradox A large body of research indicates that internal motivations are more effective than external ones when it comes… Pacific Standard Staff