[1] As of 2019, she is the co-founder of a weekly newsletter "for worldly cosmopolitans" called Air Mail, alongside former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter.
[3] She studied literature at Harvard University[4] and then became a correspondent for Time, working overseas as well as in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C., where she covered the White House.
[22] Stanley wrote, "When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called 'How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman'" and made comments about African-Americans that were seen as offensive.
Stanley's piece, wrote the Times's Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan, "struck many readers as completely off-base.
[26] In 2023, Stanley[27] co-authored a letter from the editor for Air Mail Weekly explaining their decision to let accused rapist Armie Hammer[28] tell his side of the story in response to charges filed against him in 2022.