A roundtable of leftist gun supporters voice their thoughts on police violence, mass shootings, and the role of guns in civil rights.

• By Elizabeth King

Dressed as a ninja, Shaheer Sarwar from Pakistan takes the oath of United States citizenship during a Halloween-themed citizenship ceremony on October 31st, 2017, in Fairfax, Virginia.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Is Justice Neil Gorsuch short-sighted—or is he playing the long game?

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

Neglected tropical diseases continue to inflict pain and suffering on large portions of the world's population despite the availability of inexpensive cures in the West.

• By Katherine J. Wu

Trump can't enforce a policy banning transgender troops while a lawsuit against the policy change makes its way through court.

• By Kate Wheeling

As cybersecurity concerns reach a fever pitch around the globe, the U.S. should expand the Peace Corps mandate to create a new Cyber Peace Corps.

• By Scott Shackelford

Disney and FX could soon expand viewers' world views—if they portray their queer characters with nuance.

• By Katie Kilkenny

As the FBI releases 1,500 pages of documents on Sandy Hook, the GOP refuses even to talk about basic gun regulation.

• By David M. Perry

Facing pressure from the CIA and FBI, Trump balks at full declassification.

• By Jack Denton

The real-life Wendy Carr helped the FBI formulate criminal profiling in the 1970s—and her work with victims isn't over.

• By Emily Moon

Corey Feldman says he wants to "literally change the entertainment system as we know it."

• By Katie Kilkenny

It has gotten to the point that no official count of pregnancy-related deaths in this country or official maternal mortality rate even exists.

• By Robin Fields & Joe Sexton

Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Their note arrived the same day Nickelodeon fired an animation-series creator accused of sexual harassment.

• By Katie Kilkenny

Marvel and DC could learn a thing or two from their indie competitors.

• By Alexander Huls

In the aftermath of news about Harvey Weinstein and Cinefamily, a script database analyzes its stories for sexual violence.

• By Katie Kilkenny

The work of a large network of underground therapists has laid the basis for current FDA-regulated research into hallucinogenic therapy. Now they want to take that work mainstream.

• By Margaret Katcher

They don't exist. Voter suppression, on the other hand, is very real.

• By Noah Berlatsky

Dr. Denis Mukwege has become a pioneer in both gynecological surgery and bringing global awareness to the issue of how rape is used as a weapon of war.

• By Fabíola Ortiz & Megan Clement

New research finds overestimation of the homosexual population is linked with lower support for gay rights.

• By Tom Jacobs

A new state law bars the federal government from using state data to create a registry of Muslims and other American communities.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Coates' new book shows how he developed a set of linguistic tools that have opened up new ways for black Americans to describe the world.

• By Brandon Tensley

After witnessing the rampant spread of misinformation in the wake of the September 19th earthquake, a group of Mexico City residents worked diligently to discredit false claims.

• By Madeleine Wattenbarger

Even when authorities know a gun has changed hands unlawfully, they often can't determine its ownership history.

• By Mick Dumke