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Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
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America This Week: "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
Walter and Matt discuss the short story classic by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Episode 41: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
Listen now | Walter and Matt cultivate their paranoid gardens, and discuss Comey's new spy novel the media can't get enough of, AI drone strikes, and…
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Episode 40: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
Listen now (105 min) | Walter and Matt discuss Diaa, Ukraine’s new all-consuming everything app, and talk about “The Machine Stops,” the 1909 story that…
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America This Week Transcript: Durham, FBI Whistleblowers, and "The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade"
Walter and I discuss "The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade" from Catch-22, the paradigm-shifting satire of the original House Un-American Activities…
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Episode 39: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
Listen now (118 min) | Inside the Durham Report: No dirt, no emails, and no Russians, but plenty of drinks! And in the wake of HUAC-style FBI hearings…
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America This Week: On Homeland Security's New Snitching Game, Plus Walter and Matt Discuss "The Library of Babel"
A FOIA request reveals a horrifying new government program, and Walter and Matt introduce a new feature discussing favorite stories, beginning with a…
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Episode 38: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
Listen now | Why is Google paying The New York Times 100 million dollars? DHS's creepy anti-propaganda propaganda cartoons, plus, a new feature!
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