Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer, The New Yorker’s chief Washington correspondent, is the author of “ Dark Money ” and the winner of Peabody and Emmy awards for her reporting in Frontline’s 2023 documentary “Clarence and Ginni: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court.”
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a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer writes that, behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.
a reporter at large ·
The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. What happens when his Presidential immunity is gone?
a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer takes a close look at the accusations against the former senator.
a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer on Fox News’ transition from partisanship to propaganda.
a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer on how Christopher Steele, the former M.I.6 spy behind the Trump dossier, tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia.
letter from washington ·
Trump’s critics yearn for his exit. But Mike Pence, the corporate right’s inside man, poses his own risks.
the political scene ·
Jane Mayer on Tony Schwartz, the journalist who authored “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump’s best-seller, but who opposes Trump’s Presidential aims.
the political scene ·
Jane Mayer on James O’Keefe, an amateurish spy, and his hit jobs against George Soros and Hillary Clinton.
a reporter at large ·
A conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds.
a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer on an N.S.A. whistle-blower’s prosecution under the Espionage Act.
a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer on Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who pour a great deal of money into Tea Party efforts that attack Obama and environmentalism.
a reporter at large ·
Eric Holder and the battle over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
a reporter at large ·
Jane Mayer on the C.I.A.’s secret detention, interrogation, and possible torture of terrorism suspects at “black sites” during the Bush Administration.
annals of the pentagon ·
Writing in 2006, Jane Mayer investigates how an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay was thwarted.
a reporter at large ·
Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?
a reporter at large ·
The military trains people to withstand interrogation. Are those methods being misused at Guantánamo?
annals of justice ·
Jane Mayer on extraordinary rendition, which the Bush Administration used to send terrorism suspects to be tortured in prisons abroad.
a reporter at large ·
Ahmad Chalabi pushed a tainted case for war. Can he survive the occupation?
annals of journalism ·
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM about ABC News's president, David Westin... Mentions a scandal involving an interview Clinton gave ABC which was conducted by …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Kenneth Starr, the counsel on the Whitewater investigation... Critics were calling for an investigation into the propriety of …
the justice file ·
Gina Grant was accepted by Harvard College, but the admissions office rescinded her place after learning she had killed her mother, Dorothy Mayfield. Jane Mayer reports.