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Pakistani commuters ride past plates of Iftar food placed for residents to break their fast along a street in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 9th, 2019.
The Week in Photos

Ramadan Begins (in Photos)

More than a billion Muslims around the world began to observe Ramadan this week.

By Leah Dunlevy
White House adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump and her children Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore attend a turkey pardoning event as they watch Peas, one of the two turkeys, at the Rose Garden of the White House on November 20th, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The two pardoned turkeys, Peas and Carrots, will spend the rest of their lives at a farm after the annual Thanksgiving presidential tradition.
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Viewfinder: Pardoned Turkeys Strut on the White House Lawn

The two pardoned turkeys, Peas and Carrots, will spend the rest of their lives at a farm after the annual Thanksgiving presidential tradition.

By Pacific Standard Staff
A Polar Bear Club swimmer carries an American flag as the group makes its annual icy plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st, 2018, on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
News in Brief

Viewfinder: A New Year's Plunge in New York City

A Polar Bear Club swimmer carries an American flag as the group makes its annual icy plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st, 2018, on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

By Pacific Standard Staff
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Social Justice

What Makes American Cuisine American?

At its essence, American food began as a cuisine of survival free from the burdens of tradition and elitism. Little has changed.

By James McWilliams