The Edit

Pacific Standard associate editor Ben Rowen narrates Benjamin Rachlin's feature "Sailing Blind," a story about visually impaired sailors who find adventure and competition out on the water.

On this episode of The Edit, we speak with contributor Massoud Hayoun about his story on Vilma Carrillo, a migrant from Guatemala seeking asylum in the United States. Carrillo's daughter was born in the U.S. and has American citizenship, as a result she was taken from her mother, because immigration officials refused to detain a citizen with an asylum seeker.

On this episode of The Edit, Pacific Standard Engagement Fellow Alexa Lee speaks with staff writer Kate Wheeling about the United Nations' upcoming climate conference in Katowice, Poland. During the conversation Wheeling outlines the history of the climate conference, the future of the Paris Agreement, and the pitfalls of negotiating an international climate agreement.

On this episode of The Edit, Pacific Standard assistant editor Rebecca Worby talks with Jimmy Tobias about a recent investigation he conducted into the Ryan Zinke-led Department of the Interior. Tobias used a number Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover a trove of private calendars from top DOI officials. The documents revealed a pattern of corruption within the department that puts industry interests ahead of protecting the interests of the public.

On this episode of 'The Edit' host Ben Rowen speaks with Pacific Standard Editorial Fellow Jack Herrera about California State Senator Kevin De León who's taking on long-time incumbent Dianne Feinstein in California's mid-term election race for U.S. Senator. Herrera spent weeks speaking with De León and traveling to his campaign stops to get a sense of his prospective agenda, ambitions as a political figure, and what drove him to run for office.

On this episode of The Edit, we spoke with Pacific Standard contributing editor Peter C. Baker and documentary filmmaker Yu Gu. Gu and Baker discuss their work on projects about former Jeopardy! contestant and influential nerd culture and Gamergate blogger Arthur Chu.

You can find Gu's documentary here: http://bit.ly/Chudoc_trailer

On this special episode of The Edit, staff writer Kate Wheeling reads her feature story "The Great, Chaotic Biochar Experiment" that was included in our May print issue. Wheeling profiled Australian plant ecologist Brenton Ladd, who has a radical idea to save the Amazon's trees.

On this episode of The Edit, we speak with Pacific Standard contributing columnist Sophie Yeo who has been covering how vulnerable communities are dealing with environmental justice issues in our New Landscapes series.

On this episode of The Edit we speak with Pacific Standard contributing writer Massoud Hayoun about immigration in the Trump era, a growing Vietnamese refugee crisis, and the geopolitical implications of the U.S. government enacting more isolationist polices.

This week on The Edit, we spoke with Pacific Standard Editorial Assistant Jack Denton about his recent PSmag.com story “Hailu Mergia’s Great Re-Appearing Act”. Mergia was recently rediscovered by a record label and made his return to the music industry. During this episode Denton outlines a brief history of Ethiopian music, talks about what attracted him to this story in the first place, and describes the unique character of Hailu Mergia.