The South Carolina Shooting Is Tragically Unsurprising
In a state that doesn’t require a permit to purchase, firearm registration, or an owner’s license for both…
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A Look at South Carolina’s Lax Gun Laws
Details are still emerging in the Townsville Elementary School shooting, but Pacific Standard takes a look at how…
Is Pay-for-Success the Future of Government Spending?
Governments around the country are exploring pay-for-success funding solutions. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: netzanette/Flickr) A few years ago,…
How to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline? Stop Treating Disabled and Minority Students as Criminals
The criminalization of simple disciplinary matters in American K-12 bears especially hard on disabled and minority students. In South Carolina, at long last, that pattern could be changing.
How Will South Carolina’s Voter ID Law Affect the Democratic Primary?
As Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton work to court minority voters, a new law may keep them away from the polls.
What Makes American Men So Dangerous?
Mass shootings in the United States are on the rise. And men are almost always to blame.
Millennials Are No Less Racist Than Members of Generation X
Millennial attitudes are much more similar to those of older whites than they are to those of their peers of color.
What Should Cities Do With Their Icons to White Supremacy?
Is removing them a sign that we're finally taking history seriously, or that we're uncomfortable with our past?
Pluralistic Ignorance and Retreat From the Confederate Flag
Have Southerners always been uncomfortable with the flag's history?
Remember, the Confederate Flag Has Unconscious Meanings
No matter people's conscious beliefs about the flag, it underscores racist mindsets.