White-Collar

Euphemisms offer important comfort in a recession. They also tend to exclude the people hit hardest.

• By Elizabeth Greenspan

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews