News in Brief Fighting for Women’s Rights Around the World We’ve perfected our ability to lean into opportunities, even when those opportunities seem in conflict. Now is the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Flags of Convenience: Trump’s Secretary of Transportation’s Major Conflict of Interest Elaine Chao’s family owns ships flagged abroad, a way to avoid U.S. taxes and higher labor costs. But… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Useful Are Campaign Post-Mortems? We tend to focus on the bad moments when looking back at a losing campaign and ignore them… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Obama’s Final Press Conference of 2016: This Is Not the Resistance You Were Looking for The president’s base wanted fiery words and an explicit rebuke of Donald Trump. Instead, they got a lot… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Great Barrier Reef Just Suffered Its Worst Coral Die-Off on Record In the northern region of the Great Barrier Reef, about 67 percent of the corals have died over… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Could Overturning 185 Years of Precedent Let Donald Trump Keep His Businesses? Another view of the clause in the Constitution regarding payments from foreign countries would let Trump off the… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Giraffes Are Facing a Silent Extinction The giraffe’s place on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List has jumped two spots… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The EPA’s Latest Report Finds Fracking to Be a Threat to U.S. Water Supplies The EPA’s finding, endorsed by environmentalists, comes as the Trump administration prepares to rethink regulation of the gas… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Donald Trump’s Showdown With the Department of Energy Is a Sign of Things to Come The federal government is about to lose a ton of institutional memory. By Jared Keller (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The EPA Finally Confirmed That Fracking Is Terrible for Drinking Water But is the agency’s new report too little, too late? By Jared Keller (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) After… Pacific Standard Staff