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Hersh on CNN: ‘Executive assassination wing’ killed with Cheney’s OK

By Chris Steller | 03.31.09 | 6:42 pm

hershOn CNN Monday, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh elaborated about claims he first made public March 10 at the University of Minnesota about a U.S. military “executive assassination wing” (or “ring”) called the “Joint Special Operations Command”…

Must-read: Jane Mayer on how Washington outsider Palin angled to become Washington insider

By Steve Perry | 10.24.08 | 7:57 am

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer has published what is so far the most detailed account of how Sarah Palin engineered her rise to national political prominence.

Throughout the campaign, Palin has mocked what she calls “the mainstream

Missing the point: George Packer’s “The Fall of Conservatism”

By Steve Perry | 05.27.08 | 1:28 pm

George Packer’s 8600-word opus on the Republican party’s purported failure of vision from last week’s New Yorker is probably the most widely read big-picture analysis of either party circa 2008 that anyone has produced so far.…