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Matt Taibbi, Matt Bivens, M.D., Brad Pearce, Ford Fischer, Racket Staff, Jared MooreRegular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter, Matt Taibbi.
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“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 pm ET: The Comic Climax of Dostoyevsky's "Demons"
“And I proclaim,” Stepan Trofimovich shrieked, in the last extremity of passion, “and I proclaim that Shakespeare and Raphael are higher than the emancipation of the serfs, higher than nationality, higher than socialism, higher than the you...
History's Most Preventable Terror Attack?
Probation and radicalization counseling fail in Germany.
On Saturday evening, a German-born man attacked a Pride Parade, first chasing people with a machete, then driving a van into a crowd, and finally running “toward officers with a shar...
Listen to This Article: Don't Let Activists or Robots Choose Your Words
Narrated Version | From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouth
From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes,...
Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
On speech, Donald Trump is making a mess, for himself and the country.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would be dropping subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters over a story about Air Force One, acknowledging these...
Don't Let Activists or Robots Choose Your Words
From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouth
The 2026 AP stylebook I just received in the mail checks in at nearly 500 pages, ten times a...
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Full-time ER doctor. Board-certified in emergency and addiction medicine. EMS medical director for 911 services. Former Russia-based foreign correspondent, newspaper editor and Chechnya war correspondent. Reluctant student of nuclear weapons.
History is a farce this time
Ford Fischer is a filmmaker, videojournalist, and the editor-in-chief of News2Share, where he specializes in collecting raw footage and livestream of political activism.
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