Social Justice Bump Stocks and the Lessons We Refused to Learn at Sandy Hook As the FBI releases 1,500 pages of documents on Sandy Hook, the GOP refuses even to talk about basic gun regulation. David M. Perry
Social Justice Trump Delays Release of Most JFK Files Facing pressure from the CIA and FBI, Trump balks at full declassification. Jack Denton
Social Justice Meet the Female Forensic Researcher Behind Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ The real-life Wendy Carr helped the FBI formulate criminal profiling in the 1970s—and her work with victims isn't over. Emily Moon
Social Justice Former Child Actor Starts Campaign to Expose Hollywood Pedophilia Corey Feldman says he wants to "literally change the entertainment system as we know it." Katie Kilkenny
Social Justice The Embarrassing State of U.S. Maternal Health-Care Data It has gotten to the point that no official count of pregnancy-related deaths in this country or official maternal mortality rate even exists. Robin Fields & Joe Sexton
Social Justice Viewfinder: Protesting the Draft in Israel Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017. Pacific Standard Staff
Social Justice Over 200 Female Animators Call for an End to Sexual Harassment Their note arrived the same day Nickelodeon fired an animation-series creator accused of sexual harassment. Katie Kilkenny
Social Justice The Small Publishers Boosting Female Talent in Comics Marvel and DC could learn a thing or two from their indie competitors. Alexander Huls
Social Justice How Are Today’s Emerging Screenwriters Approaching the Subject of Rape? In the aftermath of news about Harvey Weinstein and Cinefamily, a script database analyzes its stories for sexual violence. Katie Kilkenny
Social Justice Can Underground Psychedelic Therapy Ever Go Mainstream? 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. Margaret Katcher