Fear Powers Zombie Bugs
Work with glued spiders and stressed grasshoppers shows how fear can transform an ecosystem even after death.
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Obamacare Wins—Yet Single Payer Refuses to Die
Although the Supreme Court has largely upheld the Affordable Care Act, one new study--by the country's largest private health insurance provider--concludes that a public option like the one Obama rejected could save states and families money.
Thought Matters
Inside this first issue of Pacific Standard are stories about important developments in China, rural Ohio, Wall Street,…
Female Pop Stars: Prepare to Disrobe
An analysis of Rolling Stone magazine covers finds female artists are increasingly sexualized and presented as sex objects.
Wonking Week: Higher Power and Wind Power
In this week's podcast, we look at the role believing in something has on how people deal with stress, and we'll examine one man's hopes for more U.S. subsidies for renewable energy.
Wonking Week: Art, Phosphorus and the Nanny State
In this podcast we discuss art in context, phosphorus in distress and then are driven to distraction by federal nannying.
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Fred Korematsu was a U.S.-born Japanese-American who deliberately decided to stay in California and not be moved to…
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Ruled that the Florida recounts in the presidential election violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment,…
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886)
A complicated tax case stemming from a California law that stated railroads could not deduct the value of…
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Dred Scott was a slave born in Virginia who claimed he should have been emancipated when his owner…