Is Slack Destroying American Companies?

Bounced from Apple over complaints about his book Chaos Monkeys, the author questions the wisdom of conflating your entire "political, moral, and religious being with your professional persona." | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 2 years ago

Much easier to ruin a career than mess with a corporate cash cow | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 2 years ago

Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It

News companies are pioneering a new brand of vigilante reporting, partnering with the spy agencies they once oversaw | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 2 years ago

The Heroic Congressional Fight to Save the Rich

A handful of Democrats want to hold up a $2 trillion infrastructure bill to save a choice tax deduction for the wealthy, not that you'll hear it described that way | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

On the Miserable Necessity of Doing Censorship Stories in Pairs

"Meet the Censored" will now come out in sets of left and right bans, in the (probably vain) hope that fewer people will cheer news of deletions and suspensions | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Master List of Official Russia Claims That Proved to Be Bogus

The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again. | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Alternatives to Censorship: Interview with Matt Stoller

As Congress once again demands that Silicon Valley crack down on speech, the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project outlines the real problem, and better solutions | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Alternatives to Censorship

As Congress once again demands that Silicon Valley crack down on speech, the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project outlines the real problem - and better solutions | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

A Biden Appointee's Troubling Views on the First Amendment

Columbia law professor Timothy Wu wonders if the First Amendment is "obsolete," and believes in "returning the country to the kind of media environment that prevailed in the 1950s.” | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The Sovietization of the American Press

The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

I Can't Stand Fox News, but Censoring It Might Be the Dumbest Idea Ever

How will the latest campaign against "misinformation" backfire for the country? Let's count the ways | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

TK Finance Dictionary: “SPAC”

America still leads the world in one thing: inflating speculative bubbles using gibberish finance acronyms. Meet the latest 'Get-Super-Rich-Quick' scheme, the Special Purpose Acquisition Company | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

A pioneer, and not in a good way | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The War on Privacy

Five years ago, official abuses of secrecy were the scandal. Today, the scandal is you | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

“This Is for You, Dad”: Interview with an Anonymous GameStop Investor

Raised in a family devastated by bubble economics, one Reddit investor saw GameStop as a way to send a message to "cancerous rent-seekers" | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Suck It, Wall Street

In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The Echo Chamber Era

Trust in media is down, but if journalists don't listen to critics anyway, why should they care? | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

We Need a New Media System

If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

US Covid relief bill smaller than either parties pre-election promises

Democrats stonewalled all year on a new pandemic relief package. Now they're proposing a new plan that undercuts even Republican proposals, and screws everyone but - get this - defense contractors | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

Silicon Valley couldn't have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Pandemic Villains: Robinhood

Have a pair of gangly Stanford grads built the perfect mousetrap? | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Student Loan Horror Stories: Borrowed: $79,000. Paid: $190k.Now Owes $236,000

At 59, Chris pleaded for a renegotiation. "My life expectancy is 15 more years. At this rate, you're not going to get very much...' Their response was, 'So?'" | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Matt Taibbi: S–T Public Defenders See: Innocent, but Fined

The state of Iowa collects millions of dollars in fines from people whose charges were dismissed. There's also a Catch-22: financially, you're better off guilty | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Meet The Censored: Andre Damon

Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

For What Are America's Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War

When leaders run out of unifying myths, division is the last currency. Why this Thanksgiving, America is a "death cult" versus "radical socialists" | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The Censored: Ford Fischer

The videographer is this week's entrant in a growing club of the digitally deleted | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Pandemic Villains: Allianz Global Investors

How one of the world's biggest finance companies misread Covid-19 and cost pensioners billions | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Glenn Greenwald on His Resignation from the Intercept

The Pulitzer winner founded the Intercept to challenge official narratives and protect editorial freedom. When editors abandoned those principles, spiking a controversial story, he was forced to quit | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Suppression Is a Bigger Scandal Than the Actual Story

Unprecedented efforts to squelch information about a New York Post story may prove to be more dangerous corruption than whatever Hunter Biden did with a crooked Ukrainian energy company | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard

The decision to ban a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden flies in the face of years of "hack and leak" stories | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Facebook and Twitter's Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard

The decision to ban a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden flies in the face of years of "hack and leak" stories | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?

QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Revenge of the Money Launderers

The "FinCen Files" story reveals: getting caught not only doesn’t stop the world's biggest banks from moving dirty money, it may encourage them | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The Post-Objectivity Era

Summary of "Hate Inc: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another" | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Tape shows: ethically, CNN chief a little shaky

A conversation between Jeff Zucker and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen removes all doubt: our hated president is a beloved commodity to network executives | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The race is tightening. Is America sure it's ready to give up its addiction to crazy? | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Dont Steal This Book

On "In Defense of Looting” | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The New Puritans

The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The Spies Who Hijacked America

As a doctoral candidate at Cambridge working under "FBI Informant" Stefan Halper, I had a front-row seat for Russiagate | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Our Man in Cambridge

Whistleblower Steven Schrage reveals what America should have known all along – Russiagate was both crime and farce | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Taibbi Review of Frank's Latest Book on Populism

Author Thomas Frank predicted the modern culture war, and he was right about Donald Trump, but don’t expect political leaders to pay attention to his new book about populism | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The Left Is Now the Right

We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?

Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?

Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

On “White Fragility”

A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

The American Press Is Destroying Itself

A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago

Where did policing go wrong?

Crime has been down for decades, but incarceration is still sky-high and brutality cases keep tearing the country apart. Does policing in America need a fundamental re-think? | Continue reading


@taibbi.substack.com | 3 years ago