Matt Taibbi

Back in 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi famously called Goldman Sachs “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Fast forward nearly a decade and it seems Nassim Taleb ...

Rolling Stone journalist and Griftopia author Matt Taibbi famously called Goldman Sachs a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” But what if this generation's biggest blood-sucker isn't Wall Street's evil banks, ...

Anti-Establishment? You Might Be a Russian Troll (Dan). At least according to Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi's analysis of the current political climate. From Bernie Sanders to Catalonia to the recent Italian elections, the spectre of Russian influence, real or not, is often used by establishment politicians ...

... at Trump to start, but it's become a way of targeting all dissent. Nearly two years into the #Russiagate scandal, accusing people of being in league with Putin has become an almost daily feature of news coverage. Credit: Alexey Nikolsky/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL/EPA-EFE/REX Shutterstock. By Matt Taibbi. 2 days ago ...

#Russiagate Skeptics Take a Beating. We don't know for sure where the Mueller probe is going, but don't dare say that out loud. Credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images. By Matt Taibbi. February 22, 2018 ...

... to Stop Killing, the Adults Have to Stop, Too. America's rage-sickness trickles down from the top. Mourners stand during a candlelight vigil for the victims of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 15, 2018. Credit: RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images. By Matt Taibbi.

If one could adjectivize the president, there has never been anything Trumpier than Donald Trump's posture on nuclear weapons. It's an issue where he embraces contradictory thoughts in the same breath with routine. In candidate Trump's debate with Hillary Clinton on September 26, 2016, he said, ...

Few journalists have tossed more hand grenades or built more of a reputation for themselves than Matt Taibbi, who covers politics and culture for Rolling Stone when not writing bestselling books, such as Griftopia, Insane Clown President, and most recently I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, ...

Why Michael Wolff's Book Is Good News. The blistering new insider account of the White House offers hope that Trump's is just a worse version of a species of presidency we've survived before. By Matt Taibbi. January 5, 2018 ...

Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, known for his hard-hitting reporting on Goldman Sachs in the wake of the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis, fell from grace this October after controversial passages from an old book he'd co-authored, The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, resurfaced and were ...

RIP Edward Herman, Who Co-Wrote a Book That's Now More Important Than Ever. We need a new 'Manufacturing Consent'. By Matt Taibbi. November 14, 2017 ...