The New Yorker Festival | How We Got Here: Dark Money, Income Inequality, and the Forces Driving This Election

With Jane Mayer and George Packer. Moderated by Daniel Zalewski.

Jane Mayer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. Based in Washington, D.C., she writes about politics and national security for the magazine. Her article about the accused N.S.A. whistle-blower Thomas Drake won the George Polk Award for magazine reporting in 2012. She recently expanded her reporting on the Koch brothers’ covert political funding into her fourth best-selling book, “Dark Money,” which was published this year. “Trump’s Boswell Speaks,” her article about Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal,” ran in the July 25, 2016, issue of the magazine.

George Packer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003. His books include “Blood of the Liberals,” which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award; “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq,” which won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award; and “Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade.” He has also written two novels and a play. His most recent book, “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America,” won the 2013 National Book Award for nonfiction.

Daniel Zalewski is The New Yorker’s features director.