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