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Laura Secor

Laura Secor, an editor at Foreign Affairs, is the author of “ Children of Paradise.”

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2 picks · 2016–2020

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The Man Who Refused to Spy
a reporter at large ·

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal, Laura Secor reports.

War of Words
annals of activism ·

Laura Secor on Asieh Amini, a poet and journalist who risked everything by challenging Sharia law.