In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots’ podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk to Dennis Kucinich, who ran for president in 2004 and 2008, about his insights into the current presidential campaign. Plus, the duo discuss all the other crazy things going on in American politics. “He’s …
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A federal appeals court has struck down a landmark climate change lawsuit brought against the federal government on behalf of children and young adults. On Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco tossed the suit in a two-to-one majority decision, upending an earlier district court ruling …
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It’s 2003 all over again. In a throwback to the lies of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Donald Trump and Mike Pence are spreading misinformation to justify military aggression in the Middle East. Trump ordered the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard, carried out late …
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The evangelical magazine Christianity Today called for President Donald Trump’s removal in an editorial published on Thursday. “His Twitter feed alone — with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders — is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused,” Mark Galli, the …
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Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was the only member of the House to vote “present” on the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Gabbard refused to take a position in favor or against either of the charges brought against the president: abuse of power and obstruction of …
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President Donald Trump excoriated his pending impeachment in the House of Representatives in a six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi that reads in part: “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.” Trump’s letter breaks little new substantive ground. It stands, instead, as bilious presidential …
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A few years ago, when I told strangers that I wrote about the climate crisis, they often looked at me as if I’d just told them I wrote about the mating habits of porcupines. Interesting in a freakish sorta way, maybe, but far from urgent. That’s changed. Now, even in …
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The commercial wasn’t meant to serve as an epitaph. Kamala Harris’ November 20 ad remains arguably the boldest argument both from any of the Democratic candidates to be president and for Donald Trump to be a one-termer. She captured the essential, tangible dilemma at hand, skipping talk of battling for …
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WASHINGTON —There is one person who can almost singlehandedly put to rest one of the more cruel conspiracy theories to infect American politics this century. That person is Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who currently sits in Britain’s Belmarsh prison. That theory claims Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic Party …
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In the latest episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk with TrueAnon podcast host Liz Franczak on what the Jeffery Epstein scandal says about power in America. After the disgraced financier was found dead at age 66 in his prison cell on August 10th at New York’s …
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