Stories by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi is a writer for Rolling Stone.
Because mathematically, the game is over.
Posted on May 15, 2008
In this excerpt from his new book, Matt Taibbi shares his experiences at a Hagee's boot camp for new converts.
Posted on May 5, 2008
Nobody doles out taxpayer money like Hillary Clinton -- or rakes in as much campaign cash from the companies she does favors for.
Posted on Apr 27, 2008
Addressing the myth of that Hillary's chances are better in the battleground states, and other frequently asked questions from the campaign trail.
Posted on Apr 5, 2008
A society at peace with itself wouldn't have reacted in the way it did to the partly true/partly crazy remarks of Obama's former pastor.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
He's gone from laughingstock to presumptive nominee by campaigning for World War III. So why do conservatives fear him?
Posted on Feb 28, 2008
Hillary has taken her strategy straight out of Tricky Dick's paranoid, press-bashing playbook.
Posted on Jan 30, 2008
Corporate media are turning one of the most exciting primary seasons in history into a trivia contest.
Posted on Jan 16, 2008
Barack Obama has stormed the Democratic race for the nomination -- can he and his supporters be stopped?
Posted on Dec 17, 2007
After months as the front-runner, Hillary Clinton suddenly finds herself in a three-way heat.
Posted on Dec 10, 2007
Surging Mike Huckabee may talk about poverty and trade, but the wild-eyed Baptist goofball doesn't believe he is evolved from primates. Does that even worry Republican voters?
Posted on Nov 24, 2007
Mitt Romney's endless bragging about his wealth and success has kept him near the top of the Republican polls, but he's running for the nomination of a party that has nothing left to sell.
Posted on Oct 27, 2007
Let's hope that John McCain's political downfall remains his own personal tragedy -- and doesn't become, by means of some terrible accident at the polls, ours.
Posted on Oct 8, 2007
The media following the presidential campaigns in Iowa depict voters as gravely caring about meaningless issues like "likeability" and "electability."
Posted on Oct 2, 2007
In Fred Thompson's fantasy world, all you have to do to be president is pretend you're the Gipper and act tough on TV.
Posted on Sep 24, 2007
First Republicans screwed up on Iraq, sending thousands of Americans to their deaths. Then they refused to apologize. And now they're going to pay for it in the 2008 elections.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007
In Iraq, private contractors are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up.
Posted on Aug 30, 2007
The author responds to reader questions, sharing his views on the 2008 election and that while he's often attacked for being a Hunter Thompson wannabe, the writer he's actually trying to rip off is H.L. Mencken.
Posted on Jun 26, 2007
Despite the walloping defeat of the Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections that seemed to spell the end of neocon rule in Washington, the clowns are once again spilling out of the Volkswagen.
Posted on Jun 15, 2007
He's cashing in on 9/11, working with Karl Rove's henchmen and in cahoots with a Swift Boat-style attack on Hillary. By all accounts, he's a perfect choice to uphold the legacy of George W. Bush.
Posted on Jun 7, 2007
The Democrats' endorsement of this crude neocolonial exploitation plan makes them accomplices in the occupation, and further legitimizes the insurgency.
Posted on May 10, 2007
The Democrats' endorsement of this crude neocolonial exploitation plan makes them accomplices in the occupation, and further legitimizes the insurgency.
Posted on May 9, 2007
It must be somehow beneficial to the American power apparatus to demean the individuals who seek to occupy its highest offices.
Posted on May 3, 2007
What is it about the 2008 presidential race that forces candidates to perform like the lowest, scraggliest, street-hungriest organ grinder monkeys the world has ever seen?
Posted on May 1, 2007
With his drunkenness, his perfect and instinctive amorality, his effortless thievery, and his casual use of lethal force, Boris Yeltsin represented a type intimately familiar to all Russians.
Posted on Apr 24, 2007
People say that Don Imus isn't funny, but let's face it, there is a joke in all of this -- a joke on the black community.
Posted on Apr 19, 2007
People say that Don Imus isn't funny, but let's face it, there is a joke in all of this -- a joke on the black community.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007
You'll hear a lot in the next 20 months about which candidate has bony hands, who looks good in a parka -- but you won't hear anything about who voted for the bankruptcy bill and who didn't.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007
After the Iraq timetable vote has passed the Senate, it seems like the Democrats, Republicans, and White House are all suspiciously happy.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007
Republicans ran Congress like a basement cockfighting ring for years, and now they are freaking out at the civility that the Democratic majority is extending them.
Posted on Mar 21, 2007
Hillary Clinton told the press that the morality of homosexuality is for "others to conclude." How calculating can you get?
Posted on Mar 14, 2007
As the political class and the media establishment wake up to the nightmare in Iraq they are going to start looking for someone to scapegoat -- and it looks like they are going to blame the American people.
Posted on Mar 7, 2007
America's growing economic dependence on the hi-tech defense industry is creating a culture that views peace and nonviolence as seditious concepts.
Posted on Feb 28, 2007
While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
Posted on Feb 20, 2007
The "talent of the century" hits the campaign trail, and while it isn't clear who Obama really is, he's certainly helping make it clear who the bad candidates are.
Posted on Feb 14, 2007
Joe Klein is the living incarnation of American "conventional wisdom" -- a spineless, slavish watcher of polls who has no problem whatsoever denying today what he said yesterday.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007
If the right-wing media keeps spreading lies like the one about Barack Obama supposedly going to a madrassa as a child, it's time to consider hiring the meanest lawyers on the planet to fight these creeps.
Posted on Jan 31, 2007
The august Senator from New York kicks off her campaign by stealing lyrics from cheesy teen idol singer, Corbin Bleu, and uttering market-tested DLC nonsense.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007
Bush's announced 'surge' is one of the more outrageous media deceptions in the history of an Iraq war that has been rife with them.
Posted on Jan 10, 2007
When will we recognize that the best thing we can do in Iraq is to get out of there?
Posted on Jan 5, 2007
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