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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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Art by Daniel Medina

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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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Listen to This Article: Controversially, the Supreme Court Rules for Common Sense

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:30:58 GMT

The high court allows states to ban an idea that almost no one supports, thanks to a historically incompetent policy campaign

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Listen to This Article: Zohran Mamdani and the Nitwit Revolution

Matt Taibbi — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:03:29 GMT

New York’s Mayor proved he’s a generational political talent this week, re-shaping the Democratic Party and setting America up for a referendum on its founding principles

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Art by Daniel Medina

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Listen to This Article: The New Radical Chic

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:16:23 GMT

Ahead of America’s 250th, the beautiful people have brought anti-patriotism fully back into style

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Art by Daniel Medina

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Listen to This Article: Post-Trump, Will Snobbism Still Work as an Electoral Strategy?

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:48:48 GMT

The New York Times keeps setting new records for snootiness

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Listen to This Article: To an Ivy League Professor, Who Doesn't Understand "Equality"

Matt Taibbi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:21:34 GMT

A Columbia professor writes a dumb column, in anticipation of what will likely be humorously bad book

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Listen to This Article: American Elections Are a Joke

Matt Taibbi — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:01:24 GMT

57 years ago, Americans went to the moon in four days. Californians would still be working on the countdown

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"Why is no one covering an apparent attempt to assassinate Putin?"

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:38:22 GMT

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Listen to This Article: Britain's Great Self-Loathing Crusade

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:33:40 GMT

American and European liberalism rightly campaigned against ethnocentrism once upon a time, but both versions ultimately went way too far

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Listen to This Article: America Needs a Boring and Sane Party

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:56:54 GMT

It’s not the fault of voters that they’re surrounded by crazy

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Listen to This Article: Humanity Needs to Get Offline

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:41:13 GMT

Log on for some things. Stay off for most things

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Listen to This Article - NPR: Happy One-Parent Day!

Matt Taibbi — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:54:44 GMT

On Mother’s Day, public media cheers parenting-as-self-actualization. It’s all about you, adults!

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Listen to This Article - The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup

Caden Olson — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:22:57 GMT

The online fallout from the Correspondent’s Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test

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Art by Daniel Medina

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Listen to This Article: The Press Promotes Violence and Everyone Knows It

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:09:02 GMT

Casual lies told by the news media for commercial and political reasons spawn all sorts of horrors, making its phony rectitude insufferable

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Listen to This Article - Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?

Matt Taibbi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:54:22 GMT

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

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