Atlantic Writer George Packer on How the Pandemic and George Floyd’s Murder have Laid Bare America’s Weaknesses

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🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Packer and Al discuss the how a corrupt political class, a heartless economy, systemic racism, and Donald Trump have led to the failures Americans have been witness to and the victims of these last several months.

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0:09.0	In a four-part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young
0:14.3	boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's island for three years
0:19.5	without trial.
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0:32.0	Hey, everybody.
0:34.9	We've got a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:39.6	George Packer is with us.
0:41.6	George is one of my favorite journalist authors.
0:45.0	He wrote one of the definitive books on the Iraq War, The Assassin's Gate.
0:50.2	His latest R. Man, Richard Holbrook, and the end of the American Century was named a
0:55.7	finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
0:59.2	I won five Emmys.
1:02.6	George's piece in the June Atlantic Monthly, We Are Living in a Failed State, talked about
1:09.4	the coronavirus, and Kaya runs along the same theme, which is that this country is just
1:16.9	a goddamn mess.
1:18.8	It basically makes a strong case that the pandemic has revealed our country's weaknesses.
1:25.8	It's pretty tough on America, and I hope you can take it.
1:30.4	I spoke with George about six weeks ago, and we're going to air that today, but I asked
1:36.4	him to do a second interview about what has happened since, and I'll play that first,
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