Jane Mayer

“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost…

— Jane Mayer

“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using…

— Jane Mayer

“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door,…

— Jane Mayer

“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in…

— Jane Mayer

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

— Jane Mayer

One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of…

— Jane Mayer

“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs…

— Jane Mayer

“Amway in fact was structured to avoid federal taxes.”

— Jane Mayer

“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving…

— Jane Mayer

What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other…

— Jane Mayer

“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs.…

— Jane Mayer

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

— Jane Mayer

“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains…

— Jane Mayer

“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S.…

— Jane Mayer

“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a…

— Jane Mayer

“To make up for the projected billion-dollar-a-year shortfall created by the many new tax cuts he helped to deliver, something had to…

— Jane Mayer

This year [2016] we're seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were…

— Jane Mayer

So in a strange way, even though Trump is a billionaire, what he's been saying is, "Everything's rigged, it's all corrupt and…

— Jane Mayer

And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people…

— Jane Mayer

“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”

— Jane Mayer

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

— Jane Mayer

“by 2008 the arithmetic of climate change presented an almost unimaginable challenge. If the world were to stay within the range of…

— Jane Mayer

“The numbers regarding Koch Industries’ pollution were incontrovertible. In 2012, according to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory database, which documents the toxic…

— Jane Mayer

“Afterward, the Constitutional Accountability Center, a watchdog group, revealed that the judges in the majority had previously attended one of the all-expenses-paid…

— Jane Mayer

“the Citizens United decision was in many respects a return to the Gilded Age. Justice”

— Jane Mayer