Bringing the Rural Poor Into the Digital Economy
Dumas, a small town in the heart of the Arkansas Delta—where public computers and open Internet access are hard to come by—is home to an ambitious new program to teach digital literacy skills.
Browsing Tag
November/December 2015
43 posts
The Pilot Program
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
Shelf Help: ‘Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster? The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line’
A lens for examining one of life's biggest questions.
Our Most-Read Print Stories of 2015 (So Far)
For our just-published November/December issue, on newsstands now, an early Pacific Standard year in review.
The Perfect Swarm
How the epic quest to find protein revealed a surprising link between climate change and obesity.
‘Pacific Standard,’ November/December 2015
The future of work issue: World-famous scientists, CEOs, academics, and journalists on what to fear—and what to celebrate—in the new labor economy. Plus: Confessions of a for-profit college inspector.
The Guidebook for 21st-Century Police Work
Can a former police officer effect greater reforms from outside the force?
Copping to It
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
On Pivoting: How We Talk About Labor
Euphemisms offer important comfort in a recession. They also tend to exclude the people hit hardest.