News in Brief One-Fifth of Americans Can’t Understand Election Predictions And their ignorance might keep them from voting. By Nathan Collins FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver. (Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief An Interview With the Founder of PolitiFact, During a Season of Distorted Reality Has fact-checking been rendered obsolete by the post-fact carnival of American electoral politics? Bill Adair says: not yet. Michael Schulson
News in Brief Pork or Pig: Words Can Hurt You, Especially if You’re an Animal Research confirms we use language to emotionally distance ourselves from violence and the act of killing. By James… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Are Donald Trump’s Lawyers Making Such a Big Deal Over His Tweets? Earlier this week, plaintiffs in one of the presidential candidate’s three ongoing Trump University lawsuits mocked Trump’s law team’s attempt to remove his own campaign statements from the court room. Katie Kilkenny
News in Brief From Transparency to Democracy What’s better than openness? Openness coupled with engagement. By Hollie Russon-Gilman & K. Sabeel Rahman (Photo: Laurent Dard/AFP/Getty… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Few Answers and No Justice for the Mexican Towns Attacked by the Cartel A new report finds that the Mexican government failed to stop a door-to-door campaign of killing that went… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Numbers Behind Trump’s Repeal and Replace Proposal This week, Trump’s focused once again on the Affordable Care Act. By Dwyer Gunn Donald Trump delivers remarks… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why We Whitewash Trump’s Transgressions Psychological research suggests people more easily excuse ethical lapses when they’re committed by someone who is perceived as… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The World Is on Track to Fall Short of Paris Agreement Goals The Emissions Gap Report finds that the world is on track to overshoot emissions reduction targets in 2030—and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief ‘Pacific Standard’ Heads to Marrakech for COP22 The walls around the Agdal gardens in Marrakech with the High Atlas mountains in the distance. (Photo: Fadel… Ted Scheinman