Ideas Editor
Heuser serves as the editor of the Ideas section. Prior to his current role, he covered life sciences for the Business section, and edited the Globe's prize-winning coverage of higher education, science, and the environment.
Latest stories
The risk
Vulnerability in an open city
By Stephen Heuser , Globe Staff
An event like the Marathon bombing brings home that a city’s vulnerability is as perfect an expression of human trust as we have left in societies.
A Cambodia shaped by water, history and resilience
By Stephen Heuser , Globe Staff
On the banks of a Cambodian river that swells to the proportions of a lake in the wet season, the life of a village unfolds 20 feet above the ever-changing surface.
Uncommon Knowledge
How Tina Fey destroyed Sarah Palin
By Kevin Lewis ,
How parodies of politicians can affect those politicians’ popularity, why power makes us suspicious, and more surprising insights from the social sciences.
Ideas
As gripping as ABC
By Erin McKean ,
In an episode of “The Simpsons,” Steven Wright tells this joke: “I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the zebra did it.”