News in Brief What’s Missing In Our Coverage of South Sudan’s Civil War In South Sudan, a civil war has now entered its fourth year of tearing open ethnic divisions and… Carolina Marques de Mesquita
News in Brief Why Are White Americans Dying Off? Check These Charts In 2015, Nobel economics laureate Angus Deaton and renowned economics professor Anne Case published a disturbing diagnosis for… Jared Keller
News in Brief Enough About Smugness Already Andrew Sullivan: “Liberals have to be careful not to sound so fucking condescending, smug, as if they know… Seth Masket
News in Brief An Arkansas Inmate Is Set to Be Executed Due to a Legal Technicality Marcel Williams is scheduled to die on April 24th, 2017. Williams was convicted in 1997 for the rape… Kate Wheeling
News in Brief The Rise of the Hacker Industrial Complex We continue to put our faith and finances in networks that are increasingly difficult to protect. By Jonathan… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Trump’s Health-Care Loss Means for Obama’s Legacy It seems Americans are OK with the Affordable Care Act after all. By Jared Keller (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief On Health Reform, Democrats and Republicans Don’t Speak the Same Language It seems Democrats are much more united in their opposition to the repeal-and-replace bill than Republican members are… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What It’s Like When Your Federal Agency Disappears Robert Cook-Deegan felt a shudder of recognition when he saw the news earlier this month that the White… Francie Diep
News in Brief What Trump’s Budget Means for America’s Opioid Epidemic Last week, President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled its “blueprint budget“— a less-detailed version of the budget it’ll eventually send… Francie Diep
News in Brief Is It Getting Easier for Companies to Cover Up Age Discrimination? Since the early 1990s, corporate lawyers and conservative judges have sought to shrink what counts as discrimination, making… Pacific Standard Staff