Terese Marie Mailhot interviews Alicia Elliott and Arielle Twist about some recent triumphs in Indigenous literature—and about other triumphs still to come. Both authors chatted with Pacific Standard ...

It is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer aboard Apollo 11 did 50 years ago. But is that true? And, if so, how much more powerful are our phones? Many ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...

After Illinois cut funding for mental-health services, Cook County Jail now handles a large portion of the state’s patients. A new book tells their story. “Mental ward / is where I landed,” begins a ...

Amid attacks on several food security programs from the Trump administration, this proposed change could ignite yet another debate about where we draw the line. The federal poverty line is a relic.

Research has found that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions. One of the ...

In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances. D-methamphetamine is what generally appears on the street—although it’s often cut with ...

As young people read less and less, they may be short-circuiting their reading brains. They are bright, innovative, confident in their skills on all manner of digital screens and devices: This is ...

Teenage girls are challenging the meaning and the traditional constraints of gender—but many boys are still trying to fit into a gender structure that has historically benefited them. Danielle looked ...

Particularly that of the country’s most marginalized groups. For many Americans, the anxiety surfaced on Election Day of 2016. Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of ...

Local newspapers in the United States are declining at an alarming rate. A lack of local news sources can be bad for democracy, leaving politicians free to act without scrutiny. A new study suggests ...