New Year's

A Polar Bear Club swimmer carries an American flag as the group makes its annual icy plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st, 2018, on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Find your purpose, forgive yourself for slip-ups, and have someone gently prod you.

• By Francie Diep

Performers dance during the Lagos Street Carnival on December 3rd, 2017, in Lagos.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Asking them about their healthy habits, it turns out.

• By Francie Diep

Research shows that we're pretty bad at following through.

• By Max Ufberg

A new study finds that drinking can damage more than your judgment.

• By Max Ufberg

When descriptions are vague and wide-ranging enough, we tend to think they're true.

• By Katie Heaney