War

New research argues the answer depends in part on the color of your collar.

• By Tom Jacobs

People carry portraits of World War II soldiers during the immortal regiment march, in which Russia marks the 73rd anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, in downtown Saint Petersburg on May 9th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

As food and water sources become threatened by changing weather patterns, experts say these are the areas most susceptible to instability and bloodshed.

• By Thor Benson

A new analysis warns us that the period of relative peace since the end of World War II may be an aberration.

• By Tom Jacobs

A mass march takes place in Kiev, Ukraine, on January 29th, 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of a battle near the the small Ukrainian city of Kruty.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The news hints that we are getting closer to Armageddon—but some say we are more peaceful now than in the past. How do we make sense of this contradiction?

• By Dean Falk

A volunteer from the Syrian Civil Defence searches the rubble of a building following a reported airstrike in the rebel-controlled town of Hamouria on the outskirts of Damascus on November 28th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Iraqi forces arrive in the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

With their newfound spare time in the post-war era, many Americans joined clubs and started attending meetings that rapidly changed political parties in the United States.

• By Seth Masket

For certain companies, there's a logic behind the call for more war: money.

• By Catherine Lutz

After more than two peripatetic decades of assignments in the Balkans, Lebanon, Palestine, and Afghanistan, among many other places of conflict, photographer Paolo Pellegrin is still out there.

• By Pauline Eiferman

How nine photographers navigated floods, rubble, and suspicions of espionage to capture some of the most striking images of the last half-century.

• By Kate Wheeling, Francie Diep & Ted Scheinman

The rise of precision munitions should have made civilian casualties an avoidable relic of yesteryear. It didn't.

• By Jared Keller

How were thousands of Afghan refugees all born on January 1st? The answer lies at the intersection of warfare and the digital age.

• By Ruchi Kumar

The Kabul Zoo is an oasis of green in a dusty city still lying in rubble. It’s also challenging the international community’s perception of what carrying on with life looks like in a war zone.

• By Ruchi Kumar

The story of the Australian serviceman with PTSD who flew halfway around the world to die alone on the side of a mountain.

• By Kathryn Joyce

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A new report from the World Bank highlights the devastating economic consequences of civil war.

• By Dwyer Gunn

The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction has labeled yet another project in danger of failing. This time its U.S. plans to develop the country’s oil, gas, and minerals industries.

• By Megan McCloskey

Dense trade networks that formed in the years after World War II may explain a startling decline in war over the same period.

• By Nathan Collins

A new study suggests HIV infections increase in years before wars begin.

• By Nathan Collins

New research finds thoughts of religion lead us to view potential enemies as less formidable.

• By Tom Jacobs

A new Chapman University survey reveals cyber-terrorism and threats to privacy are high on the list.

• By Tom Jacobs

When will this war end? And how?

• By Chris Heller