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Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracey, Matt Bivens, M.D., Justin Robert Young, Ford Fischer, Racket Staff, Caden Olson, Ryan Lovelace“We care if it’s true. We don’t care why.”
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NPR: Happy One-Parent Day!
On Mother's Day, public media cheers parenting-as-self-actualization. It's all about you, adults!
A few weeks ago, NPR ran a 36-minute segment titled, “Many women don’t want kids. And for good reason,” examining questions like, “What do ch...
Note to Readers
When I hired Emily Kopp earlier this year to take over as Editor, I wanted to step back, give younger writers some autonomy, and spend more time writing.
Instead, I lost both my new editor and America This Week co-host Walter Kirn, added...
Activism, Uncensored: Scaling New Heights
Ford Fischer of Racket News partner News2Share usually films large protests that include chants and confrontations with law enforcement. This edition of “Activism, Uncensored” is different. It’s a one-man protest with a 168-foot view. Guido...
Listen to This Article - The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, Time Travel, and Solomon's Temple: Conspiracy Roundup
The online fallout from the Correspondent’s Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test
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Art by Daniel Medina
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"Today's News" 05/01/26: James Comey’s Latest Indictment Turns Into a Debate Over Prosecuting Russiagate
Illustration by Daniel Medina
Both Matt and Michael agree that the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey over his “8647” Instagram post is a weak case. The conversation then takes an unexpected and somewhat heated turn, shifting in...
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Champion of Survivors
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.
Host of the Politics Politics Politics podcast. Raise The Dead political history podcast.
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.
Hey! My name is Caden Olson, I'm a young journalist from Colorado. I cut my teeth reporting on Capitol Hill in D.C., and now I write at Racket News to rake the muck with the best in the business.
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