Matt Taibbi's Blog

Today is my last day at Rolling Stone As of this week I’m leaving to work for First Look Media the new organization that’s already home to reporters like Glenn Greenwald Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras

I’ll have plenty of time to talk about the new job elsewhere But in this

There's a ton of interesting stuff going on in the Wall Street sphere of late – I'm trying to find some time to do a proper write-up of the extraordinary lawsuit just filed by the Better Markets advocacy group against Eric Holder's Justice Department seeking to invalidate the $13 billion JP Morgan

There's a reason why people hate politics in this country Or at least a reason they hate reading about it It's boring

It's the same kind of boring that prevents all but the most desperate from getting off with bots in chat rooms When you want to interact with a human

If you make a big show of punishing someone and when you're done they still don't think they have a behavior problem you probably picked the wrong punishment Every parent on earth knows this implicitly – but does the Obama White House finally get it too now after Jamie Dimon's

I want to apologize for this space being blank for quite some time I actually spent the bulk of the last two days on a long blog post about the "Dr V" story in Grantland But then I got all the way to the end and realized I was completely

I thought we'd heard it all when Sarah Palin compared having to pay taxes for someone else's health care to slavery but old friend and Ayn Rand devotee Megan McArdle may have one-upped her

Like the legalization debate which is meaningless to anyone who's never actually been at risk of being

With all the other nonsense going on in this country it's amazing (but of course expected) that anyone with other things to do would find the time to denounce Colorado's legal marijuana experiment (See The Great Marijuana Experiment A Tale of Two Drugs Wars from our current issue)

Yet here they

The holidays are a great time in politics Every year it's the same the minute the last bits of wrapping paper have been cleared away and Grandpa has passed his last puff of holiday gas you can always retreat to the inside pages of the news section and find some

I miss Sarah Palin I was bummed when she decided not to run for president the last time around It would have been hard to find a challenger to Barack Obama less funny than Mitt Romney (notwithstanding Barrett Foa's outstanding "I Believe" Romney-musical spoof) and because the president himself isn't

Just under two months ago when the $13 billion settlement for JP Morgan Chase was coming down the chute word leaked out that that the deal was no sure thing Among other things it was said that prosecutors investigating Chase's role in the Bernie Madoff caper – Chase was Madoff's