News in Brief Why Scientific Transparency Is So Tricky People love transparency in science, until they don’t. By Paul D. Thacker The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s logo… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief H&R Block and Intuit Are Still Lobbying to Make Filing Taxes Harder The financial services companies spent millions last year to permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers pre-filled filings.… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Twitter Age of the Presidency New research looks at the content and frequency of presidential candidates’ Twitter activity in 2016. By Seth Masket… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The FBI Is Investigating the Trump Campaign’s Link to Russia Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey confirmed on Monday that his bureau is investigating whether President Donald… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Future of Corporate Political Spending If Trump’s Supreme Court nomination is confirmed, we will likely continue to see a loosening of regulations on… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Trump Administration Files an Appeal to Travel Ban Ruling in Maryland The Trump administration signaled it will challenge a federal ruling delivered in Maryland on Wednesday that temporarily blocked… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Said to Have Been Investigating HHS Secretary Tom Price Sources say Bharara was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s secretary of health and… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Why Closing the Foreign Policy Gender Gap Matters United States foreign policy and national security circles still remain overwhelmingly white and male. By Saskia Brechenmacher (Photo:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Senate Intelligence Committee Finds No Evidence for Surveillance of Trump Tower The chairmen of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a joint statement today on President Donald Trump’s… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Trump’s Skinny Budget Spells Bad News for Low-Income Americans A deep cut to the Department of Agriculture would be especially detrimental for the rural poor. By Dwyer… Pacific Standard Staff