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Listen to This Article: Art is More Important than Politics

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:55:16 GMT

Art belongs to everyone and even heavy metal is more important than causes

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Listen to This Article: Writing is Good (He Said Controversially)

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:57:45 GMT

Having dispensed with marriage, the New York Times enlists a professor to denigrate writing

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Listen to This Article: Marriage is Wonderful (He Said Controversially)

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:54:13 GMT

The New York Times semi-retracts a 2015 celebration of marriage

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Listen to This Article: Trump is Wrong on Speech. Don’t Forget the Backstory

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:55:12 GMT

This administration’s speech messes have become an excuse to whitewash history

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Listen to This Article: On Escaping This Horrible Era

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:20:44 GMT

Some people love living in a binary. What about the rest of us?

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Listen to This Article: Down With Freedom!

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:11:48 GMT

Liberalism has morphed into its opposite.

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Listen to This Article: Karen Attiah and the Right to Suck

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:55:46 GMT

An arbitrator can only fix so much.

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Listen to This Article: No, Jason Arday Wasn't the Media's Fault

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:53:54 GMT

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Listen to This Article: The Covid Cover-Up Suffers a Blow in Court

Matt Taibbi — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:01:51 GMT

Thanks to the U.S. Right to Know, the Defense Intelligence Agency may be forced to explain the Pentagon’s stunning “Hypothetical Origin of SARS-CoV-2” documents

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Listen to This Article: Cliché Alert: Return of the "Beer Test"

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:26:13 GMT

The New York Times reverts to old form, thanks to a blue-party schism.

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Listen to This Article: “Woke 2” Wants a Mulligan for “Woke 1”

Matt Taibbi — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:51:25 GMT

Gearing for a White House run, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughs off “Woke 1” as “a little crazy.” On the strategy of losing every political battle in order to win the political war

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Listen to This Article: The Fauci Legend Will Not Die!

Matt Taibbi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:32:10 GMT

The ferocity of the Covid coverup is a thing to behold.

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Listen to This Article: After Fauci Debacle, Our Idiot Press Circles the Wagons

Matt Taibbi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:51:42 GMT

I guess it’s true: you can’t hate the news media enough.

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Listen to This Article: History's Most Preventable Terror Attack?

Matt Taibbi — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:59:08 GMT

Probation and radicalization counseling fail in Germany.

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Listen to This Article: Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Matt Taibbi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:58:41 GMT

On speech, Donald Trump is making a mess, for himself and the country.

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Art by Daniel Medina

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Listen to This Article: Don't Let Activists or Robots Choose Your Words

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:56:04 GMT

From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouth

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Listen to This Article: Anatomy of a Struggle Session

Matt Taibbi — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:03:28 GMT

On Drop Site’s appalling ambush “interview” of Ro Khanna.

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Listen to This Article: Humans, Unite: The Reign of "AIdeology" is Here

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:10:33 GMT

The AI content hurricane is making landfall.

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Listen to This Article: Graham Platner and the Politics of Accusation

Matt Taibbi — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:30:18 GMT

A candidate in Maine drops out, and hypocrisies abound.

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Listen to This Article: "Supergirl": Portrait of a Modern Hero

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:13:44 GMT

SJW chic meets the world’s longest Mötley Crüe video in a mystifying summer blockbuster

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Art by Daniel Medina

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