Stories by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi is a writer for Rolling Stone.
Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein says he's sorry, then proceeds to brag about screwing us all.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009
The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary.
Posted on Jun 9, 2009
The recent haggling over Guantanamo is such classic Democratic Party politics, it's almost laughable. Almost, except that it's, you know, revolting.
Posted on Jun 1, 2009
Palin knew her daughter was having sex in her own house. What does it take to get discredited as a right-wing "family values" merchant these days?
Posted on May 27, 2009
God People are constantly fine-tuning their weird arguments to pimp the righteousness of faith.
Posted on May 9, 2009
A columnist decides the credit card industry is a victim of "public anger" --- how revolting is that?
Posted on May 8, 2009
Among the payoffs Larry Summers received: $45K from Merrill Lynch days before he joined Obama's team. And it gets worse.
Posted on Apr 10, 2009
AIG exec Jake DeSantis' NY Times letter asking for us to chill out about his poor overworked employees is a sick joke.
Posted on Mar 26, 2009
The global economic crisis isn't about money -- it's about power.
Posted on Mar 23, 2009
Reading Thomas Friedman is like listening to the man talking to himself. His latest book,
Hot, Flat and Crowded, is no different.
Posted on Jan 22, 2009
The two writers lock horns over the accuracy of Griffin's recent book,
9/11 Contradictions.
Posted on Oct 6, 2008
The two writers lock horns over the accuracy of Griffin's recent book,
9/11 Contradictions.
Posted on Oct 6, 2008
The two writers lock horns over the accuracy of Griffin's recent book,
9/11 Contradictions.
Posted on Oct 6, 2008
The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is -- it's what her candidacy says about America.
Posted on Sep 27, 2008
Obama delivers the same message Democrats always rely on. So why does it sound like a clarion call this time around?
Posted on Sep 9, 2008
It's the same old story: Money talks, and bullshit walks. And don't be surprised if we're the ones still walking after November.
Posted on Aug 9, 2008
John McCain can't stand sucking up to the Christian right. Is this the end of the GOP's unholy alliance?
Posted on Jul 28, 2008
Whether we like it or not, America is in the midst of revolutionary economic changes that are crushing the middle class.
Posted on Jul 23, 2008
Election season will be packed with horserace media distractions, but our economic situation is becoming a matter of life and death.
Posted on Jul 19, 2008
Haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the media-manufactured 'maverick' has remade himself into a dumbed-down Republican Party stooge.
Posted on Jun 16, 2008
Clinton must choose between two loyalties: party and self.
Posted on Jun 11, 2008
Matt Taibbi's hilarious re-enactment of the secret govt. conspiracy (that never happened) to conduct the attacks.
Posted on May 19, 2008
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
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