March Media Madness: Determining America's Worst Podcaster
Bracketology meets podcasting as we make sport of the influencer game. Plus, a $1000 reader contest
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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.
"Today's News," March 20th, 2026: "March Media Madness: America's Worst Podcaster"
Making sport of slop.
Kash Patel Embraces Big Brother
Deep State critic 'bends the knee.'
How To Treat Gender Dysphoria In Kids Without Sex Changes
An interview with Kenneth Zucker
Listen to This Article: Warriors’ Casino: The People Making A Killing Gambling On War
Narrated Version | Insider trading on the end of the world?
Listen to This Article: Will Evicting Blackstone Help Young People Buy Homes?
Narrated Version | Mega investors are a mega problem. But not the only one.
Listen to This Article: Who's That Source? Iran Edition
Narrated Version
Warriors’ Casino: The People Making A Killing Gambling On War
Insider trading on the end of the world?
Today's News Live Stream 3/16/2026
A recording from Monday's live video
Will Evicting Blackstone Help Young People Buy Homes?
Mega investors are a mega problem. But not the only one.
Livestream, Tonight, 8 PM ET, Monday 3/16: "Today's News" on Iran, FCC, Podcasts v. MSM
What's more dangerous, information you know is unreliable, or news you think might be? Michael Tracey and Matt Taibbi debate tonight, while answering comments from haters
THE SWAMP LOG: Dire Strait, Pentagon Bans Cartoons, Little Marco's Big Shoes
Your weekly dispatch from the nation’s capital
New Podcast: Today's News, With Michael Tracey. Episode One, "Conspiretardation."
A message in a bottle, from a world gone crazy
What Happens After You Decapitate The Kingpin?
The complicated history of 'kingpin strategy'
Jeffrey Sachs Is Trying To Fix The New York Times' Iran War Coverage, One Email At A Time
The road to regime change began 16 days after Inauguration Day. The Times isn't interested.
Who's That Source? Iran Edition
How much thinking really happens at a DC think tank?
Interview With America's Exiled Speech Dissident, Dimitri Simes
Dimitri Simes defected to the U.S. in the seventies and was a proud American for five decades, until he was criminally charged with a Soviet-style offense: being a journalist
Listen to This Article: 50 Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI's 'Prohibited Access' Files
Narrated Version | In an echo of Seymour Hersh's famed 'Family Jewels' story, the FBI has been caught hiding a generation of secrets.
Listen to This Article - Kash’s Cache: Locating The FBI’s Secret Files
Narrated Version | Agent misconduct, Arctic Frost, and more! Inside the files FBI hides from its own agents
THE SWAMP LOG - Boots On The Ground? Hegseth Just Might, Noem In The Gravel Pit, Bridge's 180
Your weekly dispatch from the Beltway
