**Listen to This Article - "F-bomb This": The Biden Administration's Brutal Censorship Faceplant**
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https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-f-bomb-this
**Transcript: America This Week, August 4, 2023, "The Red-Headed Indictment"**
Walter and Matt discuss USA v. Trump and wonder what Sherlock Holmes would have thought in a discussion of "The Red-Headed League"
https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-america-this-week-august
**The Electric Kool-Aid Trump Indictment**
Special prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6th case is a surreal mix of conventional law and authoritarian lunacy
https://www.racket.news/p/the-electric-kool-aid-trump-indictment
**Unpleasant Announcement**
A "Russian Dissent" contributor is arrested
**Transcript: "America This Week," May 5, 2023**
"Take this Internet and shove it!" Walter Kirn and I decide to tune in, turn on, and drop out, to fuller lives in the political wilderness
**Episode 37: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn**
Listen now (87 min) \| Take this internet and shove it! Walter and Matt discuss the lack of anti-war voices, give up on ever repairing mainstream media, and endorse living deliberately in the podcast forest
**A Good Catch by a Reader, Regarding the Break from the "Pentagon Papers Principle"**
Following the release of today’s article about news organizations junking the “Pentagon Papers Principle,” reader Ben O’Neill made a good observ…
https://www.racket.news/p/a-good-catch-by-a-reader-regarding
**Transcript: America This Week, 4/28/23**
Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi discuss Tucker Carlson's Departure, and the Scandal of the Aspen Tabletop Exercise
https://www.racket.news/p/transcript-america-this-week-42823
**Listen to This Article: Time to Get Spies Out of Politics**
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https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-time-to-get
**Episode 36: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn**
Listen now (101 min) \| Walter and Matt discuss Tucker Carlson's exit and the successful homogenization of the media landscape
**America, the Single-Opinion Cult**
Narrowing permitted ideas on both left and right, one unsuitable voice at a time
**Listen to This Article: House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds**
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https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-house-democrats
**Listen to This Article: The Press is Now Also the Police**
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https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-the-press-2e7
**America This Week: Transcript**
Walter for President, the Michael Morell and Uhuru fiascoes, Predicting the First Criminal Retweet, and more
**Episode 35: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn**
Listen now (100 min) \| Walter for President!
**Lee Fang vs. Mehdi Hasan, Round 2**
I'd be lying if I said I didn't spend last week wondering how to undo any damage to the #TwitterFiles caused by my interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi …
**The Press is Now Also the Police**
As fallout from the Discord leak continues, the undisguised partnerships of media, intelligence, and law enforcement come into more painful relief
**Episode 34: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn**
Listen now (117 min) \| “All journalists want to be spies, and all spies want to write novels.” Walter and Matt discuss the Discord leaker, reporters as FBI deputies, and the death of the High Noon metaphor
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