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News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.
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Activism, Uncensored: Scaling New Heights
A protest atop a Washington, D.C., bridge
Listen to This Article - The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup
Narrated Version | The online fallout from the Correspondent's Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test
"Today's News" 05/01/26: James Comey’s Latest Indictment Turns Into a Debate Over Prosecuting Russiagate
Matt and Michael also discuss the Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering
"Today's News" Will Be Live Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET
Comey, Fauci and the Supreme Court's latest big decision
Listen to This Article: The Press Promotes Violence and Everyone Knows It
Narrated Version | Casual lies told by the news media for commercial and political reasons spawn all sorts of horrors, making its phony rectitude insufferable
RACKET LISTS: American Hysteria
The nation of witch hunters whose lost "sense of decency" probably never existed
The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup
The online fallout from the Correspondent's Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test
"Today's News" Livestream: The Rumble in the Substack News Jungle
With a special appearance by witness Justin Robert Young.
The Press Promotes Violence and Everyone Knows It
Casual lies told by the news media for commercial and political reasons spawn all sorts of horrors, making its phony rectitude insufferable
"Today's News" Livestream at 6:30 p.m. ET
Tracey, Acosta, Brown, and a very serious Saturday night
Listen to This Article - Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?
Narrated Version | The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it
Listen to This Article: New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff
Narrated Version | It’s time to do away with these societal “grifters” and “stowaways,” says an eminent Yale professor
Listen to This Article: How Big Pharma (Successfully) Targeted Women
Narrated Version | Two waves of addiction were prescribed by doctors and egged on by pharmaceutical marketing — orchestrated by the Sackler family — that insisted it was safe and a great idea.
Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?
The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it
Activism, Uncensored: "No Queens!"
Climate activists converge on state capitol in response Governor Kathy Hochul's call to roll back 2019 environmental law
New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff
It's time do away with these societal "grifters" and "stowaways," says an eminent Yale professor
Listen to This Article: Public Stonings are Not "Accountability"
Narrated Version | The high-speed demolition of Eric Swalwell is being celebrated as appropriate “accountability,” but removing due process isn’t justice
"Today's News" Livestream: Epstein Controversy in the UK, Kash Patel, Swalwell Fallout
A recording from Monday, April 20