How Social Networks Explain Violence in Chicago
In a new video, a Yale sociologist shows how relationships spread risk. More »
Heather Horn is a senior 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.
In a new video, a Yale sociologist shows how relationships spread risk. More »
Yes, the academic job market is a wasteland. But that doesn't make spending your twenties reading poetry for low pay irrational. More »
... while Obama's popularity takes a hit there, too
The mainstream literature of the 18th and 19th centuries was lively, radical, and diverse. An interview with professor Phillip Gura about why these books ought to be part of the high school literature canon. More »
Everyone's giggling at a new Weiner profile where the writer seems to have a crush on Weiner's wife. The crush isn't the problem. More »
Some recipes from Thomas Jefferson, the Coolidge White House, 19th-century political rallies, and a Supreme Court justice's husband--with a dose of history More »
Germany grapples with the bicentennial of Richard Wagner's birth.
Screenshots of front pages around the globe plastered with news of Watertown More »
Pat Robertson thinks it's because of the Ivy League. More »
An anthropologist joins the ranks of the underappreciated sanitation workers of New York City. The result? An eye-opening account of the mysterious and dangerous world of trash. More »
Reading rave reviews from our archives, for Pride and Prejudice's 200th anniversary More »
Young writers have always been angsty about the ever-waning time left to become a literary wunderkind. More »
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How do you place wealth and equality next to one another and say, "These are the good things about American life and society"? More »
Photos of traditional Epiphany celebrations abroad More »
The day after Christmas has its own traditions, separate from the perusing of post-Christmas sales More »
With the royal pregnancy announced, a look back at the baby's lively great-great-grandmother. More »
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In Hollywood, images of massive military parades and endless rows of uniforms almost universally mean the Soviet Union, not Indonesia. More »
