George Packer

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | George Packer

Professors Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are leaving Yale for the University of Toronto. Some of their reasons might be personal and professional, but these well-known academics—two historians and a philosopher—aren’t just changing jobs. They’re fleeing America as they see it falling under an authoritarian regime.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | George Packer

Listen1.0x0:008:39Listen to more stories on harkIn George Orwell’s 1984, at the climax of Hate Week, Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been. The pivot comes with no explanation or even announcement.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | George Packer

4 hours agoThe deep divide lurking in Trump officials’ leaked group chatThe chat logs revealed an administration that wants to both dominate the world and withdraw from it. The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat about planning airstrikes in …7 hours agoDisdain for Europe in US Signal chat horrifies EU"Horrific to see in black and white.

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | George Packer

Later this week, the Trump administration may impose travel restrictions on citizens from dozens of countries, supposedly because of security concerns. According to early reports, one of the countries on the “red” list, from which all travel would be banned, is Afghanistan.

1 month ago | internazionale.it | George Packer

Il modo migliore per smantellare il governo federale degli Stati Uniti e trasformarlo in uno strumento di potere personale e di scontro ideologico è colpire i bersagli più facili. I sussidi e i fondi per l’esercito rappresentano più di metà dell’intera spesa pubblica e buona parte delle frodi e degli sprechi dell’amministrazione, ma godono di un sostegno popolare troppo grande perché Elon Musk possa tagliarli senza incontrare resistenza.