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Food policy experts weigh in on the possibilities of individual diet choices and sustainable production methods. The post How Much Can Dietary Changes and Food Production Practices Help Mitigat...

https://psmag.com/environment/how-much-can-dietary-changes-and-food-production-practices-help-mitigate-climate-change/

Se calcula que 524,000 niños trabajan inimaginables largas horas en los agotadores campos agrícolas de Estados Unidos, y todo es perfectamente legal. The post Las Manos Jóvenes Que Nos Alime...

https://psmag.com/social-justice/las-manos-jovenes-que-nos-alimentan/

Our staffers and contributors highlight the most urgent and exciting titles coming this fall—from fiction to non-fiction, poetry to prose. The post Twenty-Five Must-Read Books for Fall of 201...

https://psmag.com/book-previews/fall-books-preview-2019-zadie-smith-margaret-atwood-carmen-maria-machado/

Martin fled Cameroon when security forces imprisoned his father and started regularly raiding Anglophone villages. The U.S. government might send him back. The post ‘People Are Being Killed L...

https://psmag.com/social-justice/people-are-being-killed-like-flies-denied-asylum-in-the-u-s-cameroonians-fear-increasing-violence-back-home/

If human civilization begins to expand into space, will colonists feel loyalty to their country, their planet, or Elon Musk? The post Outer Space Treaties Didn’t Anticipate the Privatization ...

https://psmag.com/social-justice/outer-space-treaties-didnt-anticipate-the-privatization-of-space-travel-can-they-be-enforced/

The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain c...

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-fault-in-our-star-names/

It will be years until NASA is ready for a journey to the red planet, but if Earth continues to suffer from climate change, Mars could come to us. The post The Farms of the Future Were Built fo...

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-farms-of-the-future-were-built-for-outer-space-will-they-work-on-earth/

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture. The po...

https://psmag.com/ideas/yaejis-cutting-commentary-on-beauty-routines/

This year's Ojai Playwrights Conference tackled the existential threat of climate change. The post Can Live Theater Help Spur Climate Action? appeared first on Pacific Standard .

https://psmag.com/ideas/can-live-theater-help-spur-climate-action-ojai-playwrights-conference/

Terese Marie Mailhot interviews Alicia Elliott and Arielle Twist about some recent triumphs in Indigenous literature—and about other triumphs still to come. The post ‘Indigenous Writing Is ...

https://psmag.com/books/alicia-elliott-and-arielle-twist-indigenous-writing-continues-to-set-bar-for-literary-excellence/