George Packer
George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker from 2003 to 2018, is the author of several books, including “ The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.”
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George Packer on the radicalization that followed the Jasmine Revolution.
George Packer on the city’s immigrant suburbs, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and France’s problems with Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamist radicalism.
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George Packer profiles the filmmaker, whose new documentary, “Citizenfour,” tells the inside story of the N.S.A. whistle-blower.
Silicon Valley transfers its slogans—and its money—to the realm of politics.
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George Packer profiles Peter Thiel, the libertarian Silicon Valley billionaire who heads the venture-capital firm Founders Fund.
After 9/11 transfixed America, the country’s problems were left to rot.
New York City’s top prosecutor takes on Wall Street crime.
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George Packer profiles the Israeli novelist David Grossman, whose work and family life have been colored by tragedy.
The President’s failure to connect with ordinary Americans.
George Packer on the dire situation in Florida resulting from the housing-market collapse and the Great Recession.
How the economic crisis can help Obama redefine the Democrats.
Have the Republicans run out of ideas?
How should we withdraw from Iraq?
Is it too late for the Administration to correct its course in Iraq?
What Kirkuk’s struggle to reverse Saddam’s ethnic cleansing signals for the future of Iraq.
George Packer on the situation in Iraq in 2003, soon after the U.S. invasion.
A Staten Island man thought he knew an easy way to help the victims of a distant civil war.