Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up an…

- Matt Taibbi

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first centur…

- Matt Taibbi

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into an…

- Matt Taibbi

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

- Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

- Matt Taibbi

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a…

- Matt Taibbi

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $1…

- Matt Taibbi

Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in i…

- Matt Taibbi

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-e…

- Matt Taibbi