A New Yorker staff writer since 1995, investigative journalist Jane Mayer is renowned for her headlong plunges into the murky waters of national security, public relations in U.S. politics, governmental prosecution of whistleblowers, and other sensitive topics. She has written the bestselling nonfiction books Landslide, Strange Justice, and The Dark Side, an account of America’s self-destructive decisions in the War on Terror. For these landmark works she has won a slew of accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ridenhour Prize, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Dark Money tells the story of the ultra-wealthy’s systematic plan to subvert and fundamentally alter the American political system.

In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and national political columnist at WHYY's Newsworks.org