How to Survive America's Kill List
When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution.
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When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Jul 2018 30min Permalink
“In less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school.”
Notes from the GOP campaign trail.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Feb 2016 30min Permalink
The murky legacy of the former Attorney General.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Jul 2015 10min Permalink
The failures of the “broken windows” approach to policing.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone May 2015 25min Permalink
The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Nov 2014 25min Permalink
A dispatch from Camden, “America’s most desperate town.”
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Dec 2013 25min Permalink
“The dirty secret of American higher education is that student-loan interest rates are almost irrelevant. It’s not the cost of the loan that’s the problem, it’s the principal – the appallingly high tuition costs that have been soaring at two to three times the rate of inflation, an irrational upward trajectory eerily reminiscent of skyrocketing housing prices in the years before 2008.”
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Aug 2013 20min Permalink
Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Apr 2013 15min Permalink
On California’s three strikes laws.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Mar 2013 25min Permalink
How Mitt Romney made his millions.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Sep 2012 30min Permalink
Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman.
Matt Taibbi New York Press Apr 2005 10min Permalink
Anyone who wants to know what the Occupy Wall Street protests are all about need only look at the way Bank of America does business. It comes down to this: These guys are some of the very biggest assholes on Earth. They lie, cheat and steal as reflexively as addicts, they laugh at people who are suffering and don't have money, they pay themselves huge salaries with money stolen from old people and taxpayers – and on top of it all, they completely suck at banking. And yet the state won't let them go out of business, no matter how much they deserve it, and it won't slap them in jail, no matter what crimes they commit. That makes them not bankers or capitalists, but a class of person that was never supposed to exist in America: royalty.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Mar 2012 30min Permalink
According to a whistleblower, the SEC has been systematically destroying records of investigations for the last twenty years:
By whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – "18,000 ... including Madoff," as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Aug 2011 20min Permalink
While much of the Levin report describes past history, the Goldman section describes an ongoing? crime — a powerful, well-connected firm, with the ear of the president and the Treasury, that appears to have conquered the entire regulatory structure and stands now on the precipice of officially getting away with one of the biggest financial crimes in history.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone May 2011 25min Permalink
The story of $220M in bailout money.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Apr 2011 10min Permalink
“The entire system set up to monitor and regulate Wall Street is fucked up. Just ask the people who tried to do the right thing.”
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Mar 2010 30min Permalink
On Ayn Rand becoming a cult hero to Wall Street insiders and others items that make Matt Taibbi angry.
Greg LaGambini, Matt Taibbi AV Club Nov 2010 15min Permalink
Taibbi on the Tea Party. “After lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit.”
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Sep 2010 Permalink