Why is everything so complicated?

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

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Featuring episodes of Ask the Inspector and related content.

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.