Jane Mayer

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” His monumental report changed history, journalism, and me.

Link: www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

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This was a pleasure to write, in celebration of the NewYorker ‘s 100th anniversary: Jane Mayer on John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”

Columbia Protected Its Funding and Sacrificed Its Freedom The university’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education.

“Columbia’s decision to settle is understandable, but it’s also evidence of how badly the Trump era has numbed the conscience of the American elite. To protect its funding, Columbia sacrificed its freedom”

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We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening.

CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law | FRONTLINE Watch FRONTLINE's documentary on the high-stakes showdown between President Donald Trump and the courts over presidential power.

Don’t miss this terrific show- the latest from Frontline: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Our government shouldn't be able to consign people to conditions in a foreign country that would be constitutional violations, and criminal too, here.

Remember, the legal fig leaf for Trump's ability to set tariffs in the first place is that the tariffs are addressing a National Emergency.

Does that mean the Trump admin is going to argue in court that Bolsonaro being prosecuted is a "national emergency" for the *United States*?

Trump Compliments Liberian President for ‘Beautiful English’

Trump Compliments Liberian President for ‘Beautiful English’ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease

Tired of winning yet? 3 dead so far.
Measles Cases Hit Record High, 25 Years After U.S. Eliminated the Disease www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

Trump drops lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and Ann Selzer over her late-campaign poll showing Kamala Harris in play in Iowa. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Legislation speaks louder than words.”
Excellent analysis by @jacobhacker.bsky.social
& @patrick-sullivan.bsky.social
of the bill before the Senate today that is “the most regressive, least populist policy package in memory.” It’s terrible on tax equity, heath care & hunger.

Art of the deal

Not to focus on the obvious. But if it's important to end Iran's nuclear program, and if the effort in fact failed and the Hegseth is lying about it, the patriotic thing to do (setting aside the journalistic thing to do) is probably to make clear that it failed.

When Republican voters learn that the "Big Beautiful Bill" takes from the poor to give to the rich, they oppose it.

Must just be a misunderstanding.

Trump DOJ official, Emil Bove, told colleagues to “fuck” the courts, says a whistleblower. Now Trump wants to make Bove a federal judge.

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Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed? Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 06/20/2025 · 40m

As the US bombs Iran, grateful for the wisdom of @ksadjadpour.bsky.social on this week’s New Yorker podcast with great colleagues @eosnos.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social

Listen:

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Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

Never erase those old social media posts. They can be recycled.

The mood in Washington? This was posted on my local list serve: districtfallout.wordpress.com/your-neighbo...

The Minnesota Suspect’s Radical Spiritual World Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.

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A common theme at today’s protest in Santa Monica

Quite a contrast to DC!

Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force What are the consequences of calling in troops to quell what the President has deemed “the enemy within”?

Trump’s use of force was this week’s podcast. Join Susan Glasser @sbg1, Evan Osnos @eosnos and me as we confront the new reality of troops in our streets: www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...