Author: Heather Horn

Media Diet

Vanessa Grigoriadis: What I Read

A conversation with New YorkRolling Stone, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis about how she consumes information.

By Heather Horn

Dec 10, 2009

Happy Hour Vid: An Ode to Paul Krugman

An ode to the Atlantic 50's top pundit, set to guitar

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By Heather Horn

Dec 10, 2009

Cracks Show in Liberal Dream of U.S. Parliamentary System

A longtime dream of American progressives turns out to have some drawbacks, after all

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By Heather Horn

Dec 10, 2009

Good Question!

Are Americans Religious Because They Lack Health Care?

A report suggests anxiety and inequality drive us toward faith

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By Heather Horn

Dec 10, 2009

U.K. Banker Bonus Tax: Should U.S. Follow Suit?

Is a 50% one-time tax on banker bonuses doable in the U.S.?

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By Heather Horn

Dec 10, 2009

Brits Go Batty Over the Color Pink

Is pink just a nice color for girls, or is something more sinister at work?

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By Heather Horn

Dec 9, 2009

Screed

'Totalitarian Sentimentality'

Liberals fake niceness and encourage mayhem

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By Heather Horn

Dec 9, 2009

Screed

'Do We Deserve to Live?'

The real climate-change question at Copenhagen

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By Heather Horn

Dec 9, 2009

Leaked Draft Incites Fake Frenzy at Copenhagen

The Guardian reports tension between the developed and developing world, but bloggers deny there's commotion

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By Heather Horn

Dec 9, 2009

Washington Post Gets Burned for Publishing Palin's Op-Ed

Bloggers are outraged she was granted space for an anti-Copenhagen column

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By Heather Horn

Dec 9, 2009

Good Question!

Would It Be Cheaper to Bribe the Taliban?

Matt Yglesias crunches some numbers on Afghanistan

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By Heather Horn

Dec 9, 2009

On Brink of Bankruptcy, Greece Spreads Panic in European Union

Does the Greek government's debt problem threaten the Eurozone?

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By Heather Horn

Dec 8, 2009

Massachusetts Locals Carp About Kennedy Replacements

Local newspapers on the colorful, yet uninspiring candidates

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By Heather Horn

Dec 8, 2009

Picking Apart Obama's Jobs Speech Before the Words Have Left His Mouth

Both left and right are skeptical of Obama's plan to draw on $200 billion of leftover TARP money to gin up growth

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By Heather Horn

Dec 8, 2009

Good Question!

What's the Price of an Affair?

Felix Salmon ponders the economics of the Tiger Woods scandal

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By Heather Horn

Dec 8, 2009

Why the EPA Did an End-Run on Climate Change

The Environmental Protection Agency declares greenhouse gas a health hazard, preparing the way for emissions cuts

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By Heather Horn

Dec 7, 2009

What Makes a Warhol a Warhol?

Art critics and business bloggers ponder the continued value of Andy Warhol's many works

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By Heather Horn

Dec 7, 2009

Pearl Harbor Day: What Are the Lessons?

The usual cries for vigilance, as well as nostalgia for a time when America's enemies were clear

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By Heather Horn

Dec 7, 2009

Screed

'A Chimpanzee's Tea Party'

George Monbiot reveals how Canada became "the urgent threat to world peace"

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By Heather Horn

Dec 7, 2009

Heading Into Copenhagen, a Late Surge of Optimism

Despite doubts for a binding deal, some pundits are oddly optimistic for the climate talks

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By Heather Horn

Dec 6, 2009

Amanda Knox's Guilty Verdict Brings Out Frustration and Relief

Approval and criticism at the end of a high-profile, controversial trial

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By Heather Horn and Katharine Rust

Dec 4, 2009

Live Reactions to the 2010 World Cup Draw

Livebloggers and Tweeters go hog-wild over America's felicitous grouping

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By Heather Horn

Dec 4, 2009

4 Problems With the Amanda Knox Trial

The sensational murder trial in Italy has some American observers up in arms

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By Heather Horn

Dec 4, 2009

Are D.C. Bloggers Too Close to Power?

A profile of prominent blogger-activist Jane Hamsher rubs one young D.C. pundit the wrong way

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By Heather Horn

Dec 3, 2009

Good Question!

'Why 30,000?'

Ezra Klein asks where we got the Afghanistan troop number

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By Heather Horn

Dec 3, 2009

Good Question!

Should Governments Prepare for Aliens?

The L.A. Times is serious, and so is the city of Denver

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By Heather Horn

Dec 3, 2009

Goldman Bonus Season: Gird Your Loins

Goldman Sachs cuts the holiday merriment, lobbies shareholders, and stocks up on ammunition--have things gone too far?

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By Heather Horn

Dec 3, 2009

Breaking Ranks

Karl Rove to Obama: Good Job!

Rove approves of the Afghanistan address

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By Heather Horn

Dec 3, 2009

Will Repaying TARP Solve Bank of America's Problems?

The beleaguered firm is set to repay $45 billion in TARP funds, freeing it from the pay czar

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By Heather Horn

Dec 2, 2009

Spatwatch

No, You're the Dilettante!

Gladwell and Pinker tussle over IQ, quarterbacks, and racism

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By Heather Horn

Dec 2, 2009

First Reactions to New York Gay Marriage Failure

Marriage equality supporters respond to the defeated proposal with shock and anger

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By Heather Horn

Dec 2, 2009

Obama's Speech: Reactions from Allies

Germans lambaste the plan, Italians shrug, and one Canadian newspaper gives a full-throated cheer

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By Heather Horn

Dec 2, 2009

Good Question!

Is Journalism Turning Protestant?

Alexander Howard thinks the media is "going through its own Reformation"

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By Heather Horn

Dec 1, 2009

Screed

Cindy Lou Who is a Corporate Whore!

Blogger Thers has a Christmas message: capitalism

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By Heather Horn

Dec 1, 2009

Wall Street Journal Toasts Climategate, Scolds Scientists

A bad day in the op-ed pages for global warming scientists

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By Heather Horn

Dec 1, 2009

Will the Health Care Bill Cut Costs?

Democrats and Republicans are taking opposite conclusions from a Congressional Budget Office report

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By Heather Horn

Dec 1, 2009

Breaking Ranks

'Trust Science'

John Derbyshire rains on the Climategate parade

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By Heather Horn

Nov 30, 2009

Lightning Rod

'Burkha Barbie'

The doll's new outfit hasn't struck bloggers speechless

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By Heather Horn

Nov 30, 2009

Larry Summers Lost Harvard's Money

Risky investments cost the university $1.8 billion. Should taxpayers be worried he'll do the same in the administration?

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By Heather Horn

Nov 30, 2009

Screed

George Will, aka 'Grandpa Crazy-Pants'

Joshua Holland stands up for marijuana, clobbers "crotchety old fart"

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By Heather Horn

Nov 30, 2009

Defending the Swiss Minaret Ban

Pundits stand up for the Swiss majority decision to ban minarets on mosques

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By Heather Horn

Nov 30, 2009

Damning the Swiss Minaret Ban

Top condemnations of the Swiss majority's decision to ban minarets on mosques

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By Heather Horn

Nov 30, 2009

Good Question!

Is Fanaticism Always Wrong?

Rebecca Solnit muses on the lessons of abolitionist John Brown

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By Heather Horn

Nov 29, 2009

What's Going to Happen to Textbooks?

Are e-readers the solution to absurd textbook pricing, or is a third path likely to open?

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By Heather Horn

Nov 25, 2009

Advice and Predictions for Obama's Afghanistan Speech

What will be in Obama's speech, and what should be?

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By Heather Horn

Nov 25, 2009

Obama Going to Copenhagen: Will He Have an Impact?

How Obama's decision to attend international talks affects climate change negotiations

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By Heather Horn

Nov 25, 2009

Cliché Watch

Music Is Dead

Today's music is bad and old, just like yesterday's

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By Heather Horn

Nov 25, 2009

Spatwatch

HuffPo's Sex Strategy Slammed

Calling out hypocrisy in the Huffington Post's stance on sexism

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By Heather Horn

Nov 25, 2009

Breaking Ranks

Germans Bash Obama's 'Nice Guy Act'

Der Spiegel magazine isn't enchanted

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By Heather Horn

Nov 24, 2009

7 Extreme Ideas for Thanksgiving

Alanis Morisette, neopaganism, and deadly pathogens: pass the cranberry sauce

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