"Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing."
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George Packer, an acclaimed American author, journalist, and playwright, has made a significant mark on contemporary literature and reporting. Born in 1960 in Palo Alto, California, Packer's incisive insights into American society and foreign policy are exemplified in works like "The Assassins' Gate" and "Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century." A staff writer for The Atlantic, his keen observations delve into the complexities of modern life, earning him accolades including the National Book Award and a reputation as a voice for truth in tumultuous times.
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"The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up."
George Packer"It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics."
George Packer
"Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know."
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"Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems."
George Packer"The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'"
George Packer