Journalism is essential, but it can’t get at certain levels of experience — so I wrote a fable,” he says of “The Emergency,” ...

For the 47th president, illusion is the new accountability. By Frank Bruni George Packer’s “Last Best Hope” and Jonathan Rauch’s “The Constitution of Knowledge” argue that Trump die-hards and the woke ...

WASHINGTON WEEK: George Packer is known far and wide for his penetrating analysis of American history and American politics. Across his distinguished career, Packer has reported from war zones and ...

Staff Writer at The Atlantic George Packer writes that the "trappings" of democracy "remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity" amid the second Trump administration. Packer ...

The new novel by the award-winning author takes place against the backdrop of an empire’s collapse and the rise of a utopian ...

Writing in The Atlantic, George Packer lectures Israelis to avoid reacting “stupidly” to the war that Hamas (backed by Iran) is waging against them. More than a thousand Israelis (including women, ...

A few years ago, I began to lose faith in my normal trade, journalism, with its reliance on facts. Sophisticates argue ...

Amanpour and Company is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

My girlfriend and I were already five minutes late to a National Writers Series’ symposium when we tiptoed across an ice-coated parking lot behind the City Opera House. We sneaked through Brew to the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: George Packer is a Staff Writer for the Atlantic, The with 29 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Speech as a Staff Writer for the New Yorker ...

George Packer is a staff writer for *The New Yorker* and the author, most recently, of *The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq*. That book, which traced America's entry into the Iraq war and the ...