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Heather Horn is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She is a former features editor and staff writer for The Atlantic Wire, and was previously a research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Screenshots of front pages around the globe plastered with news of Watertown More »
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Reading rave reviews from our archives, for Pride and Prejudice's 200th anniversary More »
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The day after Christmas has its own traditions, separate from the perusing of post-Christmas sales More »
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As Germany investigates an 87-year-old man for atrocities at Auschwitz, a new book suggests that not just the SS but ordinary German servicemen were complicit in war crimes. More »
A historian with deep experience in Syria and with Assad himself discusses the dictator's trajectory since taking office in 2000. More »
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