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How To Spot Psychobabble Fads Listen now (48 min) | Notwithstanding the comically intense online vitriol he often seems to provoke, Jesse Singal is a fairly laid-back guy. He also h…

Apr 9

One of the bravest, most trail-blazing journalists alive today is undoubtedly Marlow Stern, a Senior Editor at the Daily Beast. Because his staggering …

Apr 7

After I published a post this week about elite journalists’ increasing reliance on “therapeutic trauma jargon” to make professional demands, one of the…

Apr 2

Photo by Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images On March 28, Washington Post journalist Felicia Sonmez posted a Twitter thread describing the intense trauma…

Mar 31

A protester in Brooklyn (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Last summer, as I set out on a cross-country trip to cover what the New Y…

Mar 26

How Boomers Ruined Everything Listen now (57 min) | Helen Andrews’ fabulously acidic book Boomers has earned a rousing enough recommendation from me that I decided to feature her as…

Mar 23

Thomas Rid testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 On March 30, 2017, the Senate Intelligence Committee convened one of what would b…

Mar 19

Arianna Huffington Lights The Empire State Building In Celebration Of The Huffington Post's 10 Year Anniversary (Photo by Desiree Navarro/WireImage) La…

Mar 15

An introduction

Mar 10

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Mar 2

Tulsi Gabbard on the Red Scare podcast!Listen now (41 min) | Subscribe to Red Scare! https://www.patreon.com/posts/33684113 Support MT on Patreon and PayPal! https://www.patreon.com/mtracey …

Feb 3, 2020

The Democratic candidates and foreign policy Listen now (99 min) | I talked to Branko Marcetic, writer for Jacobin and In These Times, about the foreign policy positioning of the Democratic primar…

Oct 10, 2019

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