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Sea ice seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast of Greenland on March 30th, 2017. Scientists say that the Arctic has been one of the regions hardest hit by climate change.

Two New Accounts of How Corporations (and Conservatives) Have Thwarted Action on Climate Change

Nathaniel Rich recounts America's failure to act on global warming in the 1980s; Bill McKibben offers dire prophecies about climate—and artificial intelligence.

Amy Brady

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a host of criminal charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou.

News in Brief

The U.S. Charges Chinese Telecom Company Huawei With Stealing Trade Secrets

Among the charges: lying to banks, violating sanctions, and dismembering a T-Mobile robot.

Emily Moon

Viewfinder: Protesting Amazon’s New Headquarters in New York City

People opposed to Amazon's plan to locate its second North American headquarters in New York City protest at the courthouse in Queens on November 26th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.

Economics

Tech Companies Aren’t Just Donating to Democrats: A Look at Silicon Valley’s Contributions to Republican Campaigns

Despite their reputation as strongly liberal organizations, the political donations of tech companies like Amazon and Google go both ways.

Alexa Lee

Viewfinder: Google Employees Walk Out in Protest

Google employees walk off the job to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims, on November 1st, 2018, in Mountain View, California.

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

How Australia Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Testing Ground

Facebook, Spotify, Tinder—all have used the land down under as a test dummy for new features.

Rachel Withers

A view of the Golden Gate Bridge is seen through a hole in a fence closing off a part of Fort Point in San Francisco.

Social Justice

How a Local Surf Break Became the Last Bastion of Old San Francisco

Fort Point, a novelty wave located underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, is a flash point in the ongoing struggle surrounding gentrification in the Bay Area.

Jack Persons

Stevens' tweets "weren't the the cordial, civil, Palo Alto dinner conversation that one might expect from a pastor in Palo Alto," he said.

Social Justice

Meet the Palo Alto Pastor Who Resigned After His ‘Disgruntled, Beer-Burping’ Tweets Caused Community Outrage

Gregory Stevens explains what happened when the community he'd called an "elitist shit den of hate" found out about his online life.

Jack Denton

Social Justice

‘Looking for Brilliant Minds’ Translates as ‘Women Need Not Apply’

New research finds the stereotype that intellectual genius is a male trait can dampen females' interest in certain jobs or fields of study.

Tom Jacobs

Engineering a More Perfect World

Jacque Fresco spent decades building a life-sized model of his ideal city. The central idea? If we want the Western world to overcome war, avarice, and poverty, all we need to do is redesign the culture.

Barrett Swanson