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Jane Mayer

Crime Politics

Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose

On the legal quagmire facing the President if Joe Biden wins.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Business Politics

How Trump Is Helping Tycoons Exploit the Pandemic

The secretive titan behind one of America’s largest poultry companies, who is also one of the President’s top donors, is ruthlessly leveraging the coronavirus crisis—and his vast fortune—to strip workers of protections.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Jul 2020 25min Permalink

Politics

Enabler-in-Chief

Mitch McConnell’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Apr 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article Religion

Lost in the Jihad

The case against “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

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Lindh will be released from prison this week.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2003 35min Permalink

Politics Media

The Making of the Fox News White House

Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2019 30min Permalink

Politics

How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump

An analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes the case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Sep 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

The Abuse Allegations that Brought Down New York's Attorney General

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow New Yorker May 2018 25min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier

How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2018 1h Permalink

Politics

The Danger of President Pence

Imagining the alternative.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Oct 2017 55min Permalink

Business Politics

The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency

“In my view, Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob.”

Jane Mayer New Yorker Mar 2017 40min Permalink

Business Politics

Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All

Writing The Art of the Deal made Tony Schwartz rich. He still regrets it.

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“I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”

Jane Mayer New Yorker Jul 2016 25min Permalink

The Manipulator

On Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who pushed America to war. Chalabi died on Tuesday at the age of 71.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Jun 2004 40min Permalink

Schmooze or Lose

The uncomfortable, and increasingly vital, relationship between Barack Obama and billionaire donors.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Aug 2012 30min Permalink

State for Sale

On the politics of North Carolina.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Oct 2011 40min Permalink

The Secret Sharer

How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.

Jane Mayer New Yorker May 2011 35min Permalink

Business

Covert Operations

The billionaire Koch brothers have declared war on Obama.

Jane Mayer New Yorker Apr 2011 40min Permalink