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

Nov 23, 2010

Record Corporate Profits Quickly Claimed for Political Debates

Amid continuing umeployment, profits hit a new high

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By Heather Horn

Nov 23, 2010

What the Irish Bailout Means for Ireland, Europe, and You

The big debates around tons of money going Gaelic

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By Heather Horn

Nov 22, 2010

Quote of the Day: What's With the 'Weltschmerz,' Potter?

Anthony Lane does Deathly Hallows

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By Heather Horn

Nov 22, 2010

Handicapping Holiday Shopping

Despite the tough economic climate, it could be a surprisingly big retail season

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By Heather Horn

Nov 19, 2010

President Obama on the Crucial Importance of NATO

Plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, build missile defense, and remember that "an attack on one is an attack on all"

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By Heather Horn

Nov 19, 2010

Quote of the Day: Charles Krauthammer Writes About His 'Package'

Things you really never needed to read in The Washington Post

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By Heather Horn

Nov 18, 2010

Why Unpublished Novelists Keep Writing

A veteran receiver of rejection letters talks about fiction-writing as a calling

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By Heather Horn

Nov 18, 2010

Photo Choice of the Day

There are only so many good options when you're writing about corn subsidies

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By Heather Horn

Nov 18, 2010

George Soros: If Obama Can't Please Left, They May Look 'Somewhere Else'

But would he really back a primary challenger?

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By Heather Horn

Nov 17, 2010

How Happy Is Britain? The British Gov't Wants to Know

While implementing severe spending cuts

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By Heather Horn

Nov 17, 2010

Internet Mob Punishes Plagiarizers, Shuts Down Magazine

Or so it seems--there's all the usual Internet confusion about facts in this case

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By Heather Horn

Nov 16, 2010

Liberals' Bleeding Hearts Are Cold and Rational

Or so says David Brooks

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By Heather Horn

Nov 16, 2010

Now Everybody's Got a Plan to Balance the Budget

Thanks to a nifty tool from the New York Times

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By Heather Horn

Nov 16, 2010

The Education Reform Movie You Haven't Seen

Race to Nowhere gets quiet praise, though Waiting for Superman is the bigger box-office hit

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By Heather Horn

Nov 12, 2010

Quote of the Day: Why Tolkien Liked Monarchy--and Anarchy

David Hart explores the author's attraction to the competing systems

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By Heather Horn

Nov 12, 2010

Pompeii in Terrible Shape, but Not Because of the Volcano

The miraculously preserved Roman city is crumbling--will this, too, be laid at the feet of Berlusconi?

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By Heather Horn

Nov 12, 2010

Bedbug-Sniffing Dogs Raise Questions About False Alarms

Also, they wag their tails. Hey--they're dogs.

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By Heather Horn

Nov 11, 2010

The Trouble With For-Profit Education

Bloggers weigh a New York Times report on Kaplan, Inc.

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By Heather Horn

Nov 11, 2010

Hope and Conflict at the G20 Summit

Powerhouse economies near an accord, but trade disagreements linger

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By Heather Horn

Nov 11, 2010

Best Veterans Day Commentary

Healing our veterans, learning from them, and how to think about the tradition of America's military

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By Heather Horn

Nov 10, 2010

The Dragon in the Room: The Place of China in Obama's Asia Trip

He's not visiting the country, but commentators see U.S.-Chinese politics throughout the tour

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By Heather Horn

Nov 10, 2010

Graphic New Images Proposed for Cigarette Package Warnings

For example: shooting yourself up with a cigarette in the vein

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By Heather Horn

Nov 10, 2010

Lunchtime Vid: 5 Years of Punditry Set to 'We Didn't Start the Fire'

Bloggingheads celebrates its anniversary with some labor-intensive editing

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By Heather Horn

Nov 9, 2010

Despite It All, How Is the U.S. Still So Rich?

Our economy's struggling, our schools are middling, and yet...

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By Heather Horn

Nov 9, 2010

Unlikely Hero of Russian Dissidents: A Former Oil Kingpin

An incarcerated ex-oligarch laments his country's political state in court

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By Heather Horn

Nov 9, 2010

U.S. Angers China, Germany With Weaker Dollar

Other countries are irritated about the Fed's quantitative easing

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By Heather Horn

Nov 8, 2010

Eminent Late Historian Explains Why New York Will Endure

Tony Judt, who died this summer, contributes to the New York Times

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