Matt Taibbi Audio & Video

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history....

Matt Taibbi discusses his book at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. This event was recorded on April 21, 2014.

A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis. Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down.

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police-from the bestselling author of The Divide.

Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist.

Matt Taibbi talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. Mr. Taibbi, a contributor to Rolling Stone magazine, is the author of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus.

Smells Like Dead Elephants is a brilliant collection from Matt Taibbi, "a political reporter with the gonzo spirit that made Hunter S. Thompson and P. J. O'Rourke so much fun" (The Washington Post).

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America in the post-9/11 era....