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Richard Holbrooke sits in a small military vehicle holding a bottle.
Politics
In ‘Our Man,’ diplomat Richard Holbrooke is both an egotist and idealist
A man in Tokyo's Ginza district reads an extra edition of a newspaper, which reported ISIS' claim to have beheaded Japanese journalist Kenji Goto on February 1, 2015.
Conflict
The ‘ultra-violent death cult’ at the heart of ISIS
Participants in a grassroots anti-Muslim movement hold German flags during a demonstration in Berlin. The rise of the group, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, has shaken Germany's political establishment.
Conflict
Germany’s anti-immigrant movement spooks the country’s leaders
Displaced people, who fled from the violence in the province of Nineveh, arrive at Sulaimaniya province August 8, 2014. The United States began to drop relief supplies to beleaguered Yazidi refugees fleeing Islamist militants in Iraq, but there was no imm
Conflict
The situation in Iraq is ‘a humanitarian crisis that could turn into a genocide’
Conflict & Justice
George Packer: ‘US Military Strikes a Lost Cause’
Roundtable: The March on Washington & The Future of the Civil Rights Movement
Global Politics
The GOP’s identity crisis
Global Politics
Barack Obama’s conflicting priorities
Is Silicon Valley Good for the World?
Global Politics
George Packer on Richard Holbrooke
Arts, Culture & Media
Interesting times: national security in the last decade
Global Politics
Richard Holbrooke’s long road in Afghanistan
Arts, Culture & Media
George packer’s Betrayed