Alexandra Poolos

A year ago, New Yorker writer George Packer wrote an article called "Betrayed," which profiled the local interpreters who worked for the U.S. government in Iraq. Although their employment made them marked men and women in their neighborhoods, Packer found the U.S. did very little ...

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For the past six years, lawmakers in Washington and the chemical lobby have been locked in a debate over how to secure the almost 15,000 chemical plants across the nation. Many experts say these plants are a logical target for a terrorist attack, but only recently ...