Matt Taibbi: Interview with Dennis Kucinich on his new book, “The Division of Light and Power”

Interview with Dennis Kucinich on his new book, “The Division of Light and Power” I first met Dennis Kucinich in 2003, when he was running for president. I’d been assigned to write a feature about him for The Nation and didn’t know what to expect. The press take on him was two caricature terms: nutty …

Matt Taibbi: Just How Rigged is the “Rigged Game”?

Just How Rigged is the “Rigged Game”? Dennis Kucinich has always been ahead of his time. It’s both his distinction and his curse. As a presidential candidate in the 2000s he was ridiculed for backing tuition-free college, single-payer health care, ending the Iraq war, withdrawal from NAFTA and the WTO, same-sex marriage, legalized weed, slashed …

Matt Taibbi: Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It

Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They’re Agents of It What a difference a decade makes. Just over ten years ago, on July 25, 2010, Wikileaks released 75,000 secret U.S. military reports involving the war in Afghanistan. The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel helped release the documents, which were devastating to …

Matt Taibbi: Ponzi Journalism

Ponzi Journalism News in the Trump years became a narrative drama, with each day advancing a tale of worsening political emergency, driven by subplots involving familiar casts of characters, in the manner of episodic television. It worked, but news directors and editors hit a stumbling block. If you cover everything like there’s no tomorrow, what …

Matt Taibbi: The War on Privacy by Retards

The War on Privacy Five years ago, official abuses of secrecy were the scandal. Today, the scandal is you The irony, part two. Only available to paying subscribers. Subscription highly recommended.