The award-winning reporter’s new book considers threats to democracy from the right around the Capitol attack – but his view of those who seek social justice has angered some on the left
When the pandemic struck, George Packer moved his family out of the city and upstate into the countryside.
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal is published in the US by Farrar, Straus & Giroux