Secret service outside Mar-a-Lago Monday[The Justice Department] must immediately explain the reason for its raid and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives, or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation...
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Give War A Chance
by Matt Taibbi | Apr 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Robert Kagan, neoconservative writer and husband to Deputy Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, wrote a piece called “The Price of Hegemony” in Foreign Affairs last week that was fascinating. If I’d written his opening, people would denounce me as a...
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment
by Matt Taibbi | Feb 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
On the morning of the 21st of December, 1989, Romanian General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu was in a foul mood. The Berlin Wall had fallen, and Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush had recently announced the end of the Cold War, making the end of Ceaușescu’s rule...
The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized 'Fact-Checking'
by Matt Taibbi | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Paul ThackerIn February of 2010, the New York Times released a front-page story entitled, “Research Ties Diabetes Drug to Heart Woes.” The lede read: Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart...
A Tale of Two Authoritarians
by Matt Taibbi | Jan 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
Former Vice President Dick Cheney visited the House of Representatives yesterday. He and his daughter Liz were the only two Republicans present at a moment of silence commemorating the events of last January 6th. It was a touching scene, which perfectly described why...
Thanksgiving is Awesome
by Matt Taibbi | Nov 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
Thanksgiving Day is here, and as is the fashion, it’s taking a beating. “What is Thanksgiving to Indigenous People? ‘A Day of Mourning,’” writes the onetime daily Bible of American mass culture, USA Today. The Washington Post fused a clickhole headline format with...
Russiagate, More Like Watergate
by Matt Taibbi | Sep 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
CNN Chief Media Reporter Brian Stelter hopped on the set of Reliable Sources last weekend, and offered his take on Special Counsel John Durham’s recent indictment of former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann, calling Durham’s probe a “total bust.” This was in the...
Spying and Smearing is ‘Un-American,’ not Tucker Carlson
by Matt Taibbi | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
On Monday, June 28th, Fox host Tucker Carlson dropped a bomb mid-show, announcing he’d been approached by a “whistleblower” who told him he was being spied on by the NSA.“The National Security Agency is monitoring our electronic communications,” he said, “and is...
Has the Media’s Russiagate Reckoning Finally Begun?
by Matt Taibbi | Jun 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
Glenn Simpson, the former Wall Street Journal reporter turned high-priced “oppo” merchant, didn’t like to think of himself as a private investigator. He preferred to describe what he and his firm, Fusion-GPS, did as “journalism for rent,” an activity a class above...
Master List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus
by Matt Taibbi | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
On March 16th, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a much-hyped, much-cited new report on “Foreign Threats to the 2020 Elections.” The key conclusion: We assess that Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian...
The Sovietization of the American Press
by Matt Taibbi | Mar 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a...
Even By Democratic Party Standards, Censoring Fox News Is An Insanely Stupid Idea
by Matt Taibbi | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
Two and a half years ago, when Alex Jones of Infowars was kicked off a series of tech platforms in a clearly coordinated decision, I knew this was not going to be an isolated thing. Given that people like Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy were saying the ouster of...
The Echo Chamber Era
by Matt Taibbi | Jan 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
A day after Joe Biden's inauguration, the headline in Axios read: “Trust in media hits a new low.” Felix Salmon wrote that “for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media.” The Edelman survey showed overall faith in the press...
Wednesday’s Other Story
by Matt Taibbi | Jan 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Just before the madness at the Capitol broke out Wednesday, news came from London. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who seemed Monday to be the luckiest man alive when a judge denied an American request to extradite him, was now denied bail on the grounds that he...
10 Ways to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence
by Matt Taibbi | Oct 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
How do you call something “Russian disinformation” when you don’t have evidence it is? Let’s count the ways. We don’t know a whole lot about how the New York Post story about Hunter Biden got into print. There are some reasons to think the material is genuine...
The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t
by Matt Taibbi | Oct 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
Start with the initial headline, in the story the Washington Post “broke” on September 18th: TRUMP’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT THAT SPURRED STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF AND CONGRESS, FORMER OFFICIALS SAY The unnamed person at...
Latest Russian Spy Story Looks Like Another Elaborate Media Deception
by Matt Taibbi | Sep 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
When I was 20, I studied at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute, in the waning days of the Soviet empire. Most of the Russians I met were amusingly free of stress caused by following news. Why would they bother? Bull-factories like Rossiskaya Gazeta and...
The New Blacklist
by Matt Taibbi | Mar 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Putin loves you; therefore, you love Putin. The enemy re-tweets you, therefore, you're in league with the enemy. We're at war with them, therefore we're at war with you.One of the first rules of a shunning campaign is that it doesn't have to make sense. It just has to...
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