George Packer

For many historians today, the present is forever trapped in the past and defined by the worst of it.

America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?

Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.