One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.
Matt Taibbi2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.
Matt TaibbiThe race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
Matt TaibbiThere is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi