Heather Souvaine Horn
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You Can Pry My Lead Baby Food From My Weedkiller-Covered Hands
Conservatives are hell-bent on defending gas stoves. Why not other poisonous household products? → Read More
Meghan and Harry, Welcome to America’s Climate Crisis
Torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides in California are a preview of an alarming future. → Read More
The Most Important New Year’s Resolution for Climate
Changing your personal habits won’t change the world, but there are other benefits to doing so. → Read More
This Year’s Big Breakthroughs on Climate
It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022. → Read More
The Depressing Reality Behind Prince William’s Earthshot Prize
The same day Earthshot awarded $1.2 million to start-up Notpla and its petroleum-free seaweed packaging, negotiations to curb plastics production failed miserably. → Read More
Thanksgiving Is Trapped In Nostalgia for a Lost Era of Harvest Festivals. It’s Time to Reckon With the Reality of American Farming.
These turkeys are miserable. These apples are threatened by fire blight. These decorative gourds are hiding the truth. → Read More
The Rhine Is the Perfect Symbol of Our Climate Folly
The German river, subjected to a massive nineteenth-century engineering project that facilitated coal transport, now needs engineers to intervene again due to global warming. → Read More
Are Gas Stoves the New Cigarettes?
A new study suggests that gas stoves are poisoning people in more ways than even the experts knew. The question now is whether the gas industry has been aware of this for years. → Read More
Nigeria’s Floods Should Be Front-Page News
Imagine if three-quarters of U.S. states were flooded. → Read More
Facing Up to the Past, German-Style
What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust? → Read More
Let’s Get into a Fight About Foreign Policy
After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges. → Read More
Is It Fair for Trump to Bash NATO Over Military Spending?
A historian explains the risks of increased spending and why the benchmark—2 percent of GDP—is flawed. → Read More
America’s Enduring Obsession With the British Royals
Once, the United States claimed egalitarianism as a central ideal. What happened? → Read More
Why Steel Tariffs Matter
The economic impact will probably be minimal, says Peter Chase. But boy do they throw a wrench into existing trade treaties. → Read More
Making Sense of Netanyahu’s Strange Slideshow
The Israeli prime minister said the Iran deal "is based on lies.” Of course it is, says nuclear expert James Acton—but the U.S. knew that. → Read More
The Problem With “Cold War” Comparisons
Syria may look like earlier proxy conflicts, but current U.S.-Russia tensions differ from the 1960s in crucial ways, says a Harvard historian. → Read More
France's 'State of Emergency' Couldn't Prevent July's Attacks
France’s heightened security didn’t prevent a bloody July. Why not? → Read More
The Voters Who Want Islam Out of Germany
Demographic patterns behind support for the radical right are similar in Europe and the United States. → Read More
Where Does Fear of Refugees Come From?
What false stories say about true concerns in Europe → Read More
Can the European Welfare State Survive the Refugee Crisis?
In Europe and beyond, the welfare state is facing a serious test. → Read More