New Yorker

On 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” that killed people in other countries and answered to Vice President Dick Cheney but not Congress. Video after [...]

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 media.” Yet her administration made a concerted effort to attract the attention of East Coast publications. In late 2007, [...]

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. The piece veers off the beam pretty badly in the last half by assuming that the disasters abroad and [...]