George Packer

A Politics Outside Washington Unites a Generation

Rachel Signer | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: George Packer, Congress, Thomas Day, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, Occupy Wall Street, New York News
Rachel Signer

When people complain to me that Occupy Wall Street never got anything done, or that the General Assembly was a messy cacophony of voices, I want to ask in return, "And what about Congress?"

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'New Yorker' Blasts George Bush Book

New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Decision Points Review, George Bush Book Review, George Packer, George W Bush Book Review, Decision Points, George W. Bush, George Bush Book, Politics News

There are hardly any decision points at all. The path to each decision is so short and irresistible, more like an electric pulse than like a weighing ...

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WikiLeaks and the Cult of Secrets

Daniel Denvir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Julian Assange, Wikileaks, State Secrets, New Yorker, Christian Science Monitor, George Packer, Glenn Greenwald, Erza Klein, Politics News
Daniel Denvir

Julian Assange thought exposing secrets would bring the whole rotten edifice down. But when it comes to the American people, the most sinister lies actually hide in plain sight.

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Rethinking Peter Beinart's Israel Article

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Israeli Settlements, The New Yorker, Orthodox Jews, Steve Rosen, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Aipac, Peter Beinart, 92y, George Packer, Bret Stephens, Roger Cohen, Israel, American Jews, Obama Israel, Politics News
Danny Groner

An impressive group of thinkers gathered on Tuesday night at the 92nd St. Y to debate the topic of "Has the American Jewish Establishment Failed Young Jews?"

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Washington May Be Broken Now, But the Future Is Up for Grabs

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bp, Herbert Hoover, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Vanity Fair, President Obama, Warren G. Harding, Joe Mccarthy, Abraham Lincoln, Esquire, George Packer, Todd Purdum, Dwight Eisenhower, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Nixon, Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times, Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, Newt Gingrich, Nassim Taleb, Politics News
Michael Sigman

Politics is ugly, always has been but the framers invented a government that would embody all the messy contradictions without threatening the collapse of the system.

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Seymour Hersh, the Afghanistan War WikiLeaks, and Getting the Real Story

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikileaks, Hendrick Hertzberg, George Packer, Steve Coll, Battlefield Executions, New Yorker, Warlogs, Death Squads, Seymour Hersh, David Remnick, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Steve Clemons

One of the best investigative journalists who has been reporting on America's wars is Seymour Hersh. Hersh has been ahead of the pack -- revealing ...

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Memorial Day: Flying The American Flag Is Not an Obnoxious Statement

Cari Shane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Packer, American Symbols, Memorial Day, American Flag, American Icons, Partisan Politics, Bill Moyers, Steven Roberts, Politics News
Cari Shane

How could an American symbol, more iconic than cowboys and apple pie, more American than even the American Bald Eagle, Mount Rushmore or the Monument, have been abducted by a particular brand of politics?

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Home Is Where The Crisis Is

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Packer, Economic Recovery, New Yorker, Stimulus, Foreclosure, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The stimulus package is the mirror image of the administration's response to the housing crisis, which has been a political success but a policy failure.

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Facebook, Twitter and the Social Web: Sharing But Not Caring

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Packer, Apple, Walled Garden, Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Bilton, Virginia Heffernan, Lost, Facebook, Technology News
Rob Fishman

Simpler privacy settings on Facebook, filters on Twitter and the so-called suburbanization of the web might make us more open and social. Or they might make us more closed.

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UPDATED: Top Authors, and Editor, in NYT Book Review Ethics Dispute

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Iraq, George Packer, Mark Danner, Books, New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus, Media News
Greg Mitchell

What's unusual about Mark Danner's letter to the Times concerning the review of his current book is that the Times publishes it this coming Sunday at full 1400-word length.

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What Can And Ought To Be Done To Rebuild Haiti: George Packer

New Yorker | George Packer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Packer Haiti, New Yorker, George Packer, Haiti Earthquake, Rebuilding Haiti, Haiti, World News

The night after the earthquake, Haitians who had lost their homes, or who feared that their houses might collapse, slept outdoors, in the streets and ...

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Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Dillon Bring Attention To Iraqi Refugees

Usnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Jessica Parker, Iraqi Refugees, George Packer, Matt Dillon, Sex and the City, Betrayed, Iraq, Refugees International, War in Iraq, World News

There's still a week before inauguration, and already celebrities are trickling into town, some for related do-gooder events. Sarah Jessica Parker and...

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Barack: Talk To Us Like Grownups About Terrorism and Save Us From Ourselves

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama Presidential Transition, William Langewiesche, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, The Atomic Bazaar, Terrorism, Scott Louis Weber, George W. Bush, 9/11, David Kilcullen, Barack Obama, Obama Race Speech, Al Qaeda, George Packer, Nuclear Weapons, Audacity of Hope, Nuclear Proliferation, September 11th, Politics News
David Quigg

When we let shock or panic or a lust for vengeance guide us, we are a greater danger to ourselves than terrorists ever could be. Any terrorists. With any weapon.

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Bill Kristol "Ambivalent" About Staying At New York Times

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, George Packer, Bill Kristol, Bill Kristol New York Times, Media News

Portfolio.com's Jeff Bercovici spoke to Bill Kristol at a luncheon Tuesday to promote IFC's The IFC Media Project (video of the luncheon to come short...

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Adopt-A-Republican

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unequal Democracy, Gop, Solutions, Tax Relief, The Party of Job Creation, Working Pooor, Recession, Help Is on the Way, Great Depression Round Two, Obama, Help, Barack Obama, Fiscal Responsibility, Outsourcing, George Packer, Republicans, Great Depression Ii, Job Creation, Ronald Reagan Legacy, Economic Instability, Bartels, Politics News
Andrea Chalupa

I hate to say this, because President-Elect Obama is setting the example for us to be nice and dignified and stop all the political/cultural warfare t...

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New Yorker Fest Campaign Trail: Nouns Are Not Enough

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dorothy Wickendon, George Packer, John McCain, Ryan Lizza, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker, Newyorkerfestival, New Yorker Festival, Eat the Press, Media News

I attended the "Campaign Trail" panel at last weekend's New Yorker festival, with Rick Hertzberg, George Packer and Ryan Lizza, moderated by Dorothy W...

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