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Author: Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn

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Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAfter years of First Amendment threats in the digital realm, Trump’s FCC aims at the public airwaves. Also, wrapping up The Hound of the Baskervilles.
A recording from Monday’s live show This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLinehan is punished, Malcolm Gladwell rewarded, and world politics has become contests of dueling faiths. Plus, a classic novel by a childhood favorite of Walt and Matt
Mass murder is one thing, but misgendering is apparently the real crime. Plus, wrapping up "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
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From journalism icon to daily newsletter of an ousted micro-minority, the Times has taken quite a journey. Also, "That Hideous Strength," by CS Lewis This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDevastating documents are being released at a breakneck pace, but will they matter? Plus “That Hideous Strength,” by CS LewiS
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhen all you have to convince is a programmable AI, journalism becomes a contest of might, not right. Plus, the brutal hilarity of Voltaire's "Candide"
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNew document releases lift a veil, but also point to the unreported origin story of two major American scandals
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe inside scoop on the latest (actually important) Russigate developments. Plus, correspondent Boot reaches Africa in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop.
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lincolnlogan

49:00

Sep 2nd
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lincolnlogan

1:28:20, consciousness, time, cause and effect, controlling the mind

Aug 11th
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Some of these are getting very long . . .

Apr 7th
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Those movie cultural references . . . Love it !

Apr 2nd
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Why do these almost always cut off before the end ?

Mar 31st
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At least this live episode didn't cut off before the end like all the rest . . .

Mar 25th
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John Thomson

Matt just exposed himself as the scum he is. It's not complicated. He is genocide supporting scum.

May 4th
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