Heather Souvaine Horn

@heathershorn

Changing your personal habits won’t change the world, but there are other benefits to doing so.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.

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.

These turkeys are miserable. These apples are threatened by fire blight. These decorative gourds are hiding the truth.

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.

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.

Imagine if three-quarters of U.S. states were flooded.

Heather Booth and the Jane Collective helped thousands of people have abortions before Roe. Their example is once again relevant.

The United States has two speeds when it comes to older people: sycophancy for the powerful, contempt for everyone else.

Mark O’Connell’s book set out to explore survivalist subcultures. Then the pandemic hit.

The senator’s evisceration of her competitors at the Las Vegas Democratic debate hinted at an ability to shatter a long-standing political convention.

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.

A pro-Trump intellectual's attempt to ascribe a method to the president's madness shows just how hopeless that is.

A historian explains the risks of increased spending and why the benchmark—2 percent of GDP—is flawed.

Donald Trump, Meghan Markle, and America’s enduring obsession with the British royals

The economic impact will probably be minimal, says Peter Chase. But boy do they throw a wrench into existing trade treaties.

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.

No, we're not reliving the 1960s, says Harvard historian Arne Westad.

Industrialization, a new book argues, depended on gun-making. But from the start manufacturers refused any responsibility for gun violence.