Sep/Oct 2018

Sarasota, Florida: A wedding guest takes a smoke break along the water after a late afternoon thunderstorm.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Women wore, and sometimes designed, their own clothes in California prisons until the 1990s, when the state began issuing uniforms to its female inmates.

On the making of our feature story concerning the deadly business of building oil and gas pipelines.

"Same-sex marriage is everywhere, all of the time. One cannot hide from it."

A nervous storm cloud of historical might-have-beens—a fitting companion to our age of diffuse paranoia.

Set off of one of Addis Ababa's main streets is a secret, self-enclosed village. In that village, girls like Raissa—some as young as 11 years old—fleeing bride abduction, early marriage, and other harmful practices have found a refuge.

In one of the poorest areas of the country, public schools are driving economic transformation.

Yangon, Myanmar: In 2015, a week before general elections, people attend a rally for politician Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Sjors Horstman has spent the last 30 years of his life at the bottom of the Grand Canyon as a volunteer for the National Park Service—one of the longest-serving volunteers in NPS history.

Sociologist Eve Ewing analyzes the closings from multiple angles.

So far, attempts to optimize our diets based on our DNA have not panned out.

Twenty-five years following a survivor of childhood sexual trauma and abuse.

Humor is no laughing matter when it comes to persuading others.

Manila, Philippines: In 2016, police investigate an alley where a 37-year-old man was killed by two unidentified gunmen riding motorcycles.

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Sorell Raino-Tsui helps connect Oakland's muralists with customers who can pay them fairly for their work. But what if he's helping hasten gentrification?

An investigation into the deadly business of building oil and gas pipelines.

Members and backers of the Trump administration are profiting from DAPL while scheming to make even bigger bucks shipping oil and petrochemicals overseas.

How we uncovered the numbers behind pipeline construction fatalities.

RJ Young's memoir recounts how he tried to endear himself to his white in-laws by learning how to shoot. Both love affairs eventually fell apart.

Lessons from the Nixon years.

The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns that define themselves as advocates of Earth, square off against the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.