Sep/Oct 2018

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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.

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

• By Libby Rainey

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

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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

• By Peter C. Baker

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.

• By Annie Hylton

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

• By Dwyer Gunn

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.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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.

• By Angela Serratore
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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.

• By Jessi Phillips

Sociologist Eve Ewing analyzes the closings from multiple angles.

• By Peter C. Baker

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

• By Ashley Hackett

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

• By Nina Berman

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

• By Andy Dehnart

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

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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.

• By Angela Serratore
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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?

• By Alissa Greenberg

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

• By Antonia Juhasz

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

• By Antonia Juhasz

How we uncovered the numbers behind pipeline construction fatalities.

• By Antonia Juhasz

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.

• By Peter C. Baker

Lessons from the Nixon years.

• By Seth Masket

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.

• By Rachel Riederer