WASHINGTON — Around this time four years ago, Matt Hildreth’s phone started to ring off the hook. Hildreth had played the part of a Cassandra going into the 2016 election, warning anyone who’d listen that Donald Trump was poised to dominate the rural vote. Hildreth, who had worked in progressive …
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Donald Trump is gifted at marketing stodgy, old-line Republican policies as though they’re bold, transgressive, and new. Think of it as policy laundering. And nowhere has this deception been executed to more damaging effect than in Trump’s handling of the economy. As a candidate, Trump positioned himself as a different …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by author and tech entrepreneur Antonio García Martínez. Katie and Matt break down a contentious interview with Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Pelosi, which derailed when Blitzer questioned the reasoning for stalling the potential HEROES Act …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s displeasure with the news that he may, again, be used in a Trump presidential campaign ad was palpable during a Monday appearance on CNN. When host Jake Tapper told the nation’s top infectious disease expert about his reporting regarding the Trump team’s plans to do another ad …
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Fox News Sunday host and moderator of this week’s disastrous presidential debate, Chris Wallace, blamed the president for what turned out to be a dumpster fire event during a Thursday interview with Fox’s Bill Hemmer. Wallace jokingly told Hemmer that he’d “just gotten over post-traumatic stress disorder and now you’ve …
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You can tell a lot about a millionaire by how he spreads his money around. In the case of Louis DeJoy — the GOP megadonor now threatening the integrity of the 2020 election as Postmaster General by slowing deliveries and destroying mail-sorting equipment in swing states — he’s offered consistent …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Alex Morse, who discusses the recent controversy around his campaign for Congress. First, Matt and Katy discuss the Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion song “WAP,” and …
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When Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was resoundingly defeated this week in his race to reclaim the Senate seat he’d once held for 20 years, I wish I could say I celebrated. On the face of things, it should have been gratifying to see the end of a political career that …
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On the night of May 31st, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin sat in his office in City Hall, watching on social media as a crowd of protestors gathered one block away. Six days earlier, George Floyd had been killed by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin — some have called it a …
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Dr. Peter Hotez tuned into last Friday’s White House Coronavirus Briefing hoping he might learn something new. Hotez is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor’s College of Medicine and one of the leading vaccine researchers in the world. He and a team of scientists are …
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