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Jane Mayer

Bylines

Scooping the Supreme Court

The first Roe v. Wade leaks happened fifty years ago.

by Jane Mayer via The New Yorker on May 6, 2022
Anita Hill Saw History Repeat Itself at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Hearings

The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process discusses how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own.

by Anita Hill, Jane Mayer, David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 8, 2022
The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

by Jane Mayer via The New Yorker on May 6, 2021

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Disposable Heroes

Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward.”

by Moira Donegan via Bookforum on July 2, 2024

9/11 was a Test. The Books of the Last Two Decades Show How America Failed.

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

by Carlos Lozada via Washington Post on September 3, 2021

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