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4 days ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn. Over 507,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“What a grand champion looks like. First place for great reporting.

6 days ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. 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. 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.

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Matt Taibbi: All right. Welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: And we have an amusing show. We’re probably going to have some fiery responses about this material. Walter, you’re in Vegas, right? You relocated last night? Walter Kirn: Yeah, late last night I left the East Coast. Which is leaving a pressure cooker at this point. I mean, I can’t tell you how many conversations of ultimate fear about the coming fascist regime that I had in New York.

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Link Here: Listen to subscriber-only audio in your podcast appShare the Free Previews of America This Week:Watch ATW on YouTube below:Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. 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.

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi

I wasn’t going to do it, really. After stepping to the edge of nervous collapse of late, I promised, no more Conventional Wisdom Bestsellers. I saw Abundance in an airport and turned away before registering cover art. I had the same plan for Original Sin, the “controversial” book in which CNN’s Jake Tapper teams with Alex Thompson of Axios to get real about the media and Joe Biden’s health.