News in Brief Here’s How Trump Plans to Gut the EPA Trump’s team appears poised to carry out his campaign promises to gut the Environmental Protection Agency. By Kate… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Trump’s Executive Order About International Abortion Funding Means President Donald Trump signed three directives this morning, one of which appears to be a ban preventing United… Francie Diep
News in Brief The Beginning of a Movement: Who Was This Past Weekend’s Women’s March for? Was it for Donald Trump? Other legislators across the country, especially Republican members of Congress? Ourselves? By Seth… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Donald Trump Is Already Making a Mess of the Middle East Peace Process And Jared Kushner won’t be able to do much to help. By Jared Keller Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How One Conservationist Is Sparking a Revolution Among the Youth of Indonesia On the border of Indonesia’s Kerinci Seblat National Park, conservationist Pungky Nanda Pratama is training the next generation… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Former Intelligence Official: Donald Trump’s Conflict With Spy Agencies Creates ‘Dangerous Moment’ Matthew Olsen, a senior national security official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, says the ongoing conflict between… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Steven Mnuchin Is Right—the IRS Is Under-Funded And under-staffed, for that matter. By Dwyer Gunn Steven Mnuchin. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Earlier this week, at… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Smart, Emotionally Stable People Enjoy Morbid Humor A taste for the grotesque is no reason for embarrassment. Tom Jacobs
News in Brief Sixty-Seven Numbers That Define the Obama Era Health care, drone strikes, and a shrinking unemployment rate: a look at the figures that will define Obama’s legacy—for better and worse. Jared Keller
News in Brief Once More: What Was Marine Le Pen Doing Getting Coffee at Trump Tower? The objective of last week’s coffee chat is as unclear as Marine Le Pen’s stance on Donald Trump… Pacific Standard Staff