America This Week

By 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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05.17.2024
America This Week, May 17, 2024: "Delusion, Not Just Once A Year"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A wild backlash against a poll underscores the neverending cycle of mad delusions that American pop culture has become. Plus, Heinrich Böll's my-how-relevant "Christmas Not Just Once...
05.10.2024
America This Week, May 10, 2024: Canada Über Alles! On Justin Trudeau's Terrifying New Speech Law
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt discuss the New York Times and Canada's Online Harms Act. Plus, "The Story-Teller," by Saki. Www.Racket.news
05.03.2024
America This Week, May 3, 2024: Gaza, Columbia, and More, in "I&P"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt finally talk about a long-avoided subject. Plus, John Updike's "A&P;"
04.26.2024
America This Week, April 26, 2024: "The Magic Weekend"
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04.19.2024
America This Week, April 19, 2024: "To Build a Surveillance State."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news What does the "Right to Knowledge" mean, and why is it so dangerous? Walter and Matt ponder the less funny side of the Katherine Maher story. Plus,...
04.12.2024
America This Week, April 12, 2024: "NPR's Greatest Hits."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Matt and Walter dive into NPR editor Uri Berliner's comments, then review some of the most curious NPR stories of late. Also: "Jackals and Arabs" by Franz...
04.05.2024
America This Week, April 5, 2024: “The Nine Billion RFK Answers Ignored”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news If CNN spends an hour interviewing Robert F. Kennedy and doesn’t hear his answers, did it happen? Walter and Matt discuss. Plus “The Nine Billion Names of...
03.29.2024
America This Week, March 29, 2024: "MSNBC Loses Its Nose Over Ronna"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news You can't stick your nose up at the world if it's gone. Walter and Matt relive the Ronna McDaniel chorus, condemn absolutely all scissors imagery, and read...
03.22.2024
America This Week, March 22, 2024: "Swimming in the Deep State is Kind of Awesome"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Link to New York Times editorial: “It Turns Out the Deep State is Actually Kind of Awesome.” See also subsequent contest content. Link to Starship...
03.15.2024
America This Week, March 15, 2024: “A Circle of Censorious Friends”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt sound the alarm on the unexpectedly horrifying TikTok bill, and laugh over Vladimir Voinovich’s classic Samizdat satire, “A Circle of Friends.”
03.01.2024
America This Week, March 1, 2024: "The Surveillance State is a Moody, Sadistic Child"
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02.23.2024
America This Week, February 23, 2024: "Ukraine’s Blues"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Matt and Walter discuss the Russia “insta-threat” and review “Sonny’s Blues” www.Racket.news
02.16.2024
America This Week, February 16, 2024: "How a Political Scandal Fed Two Podcast Hosts"
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02.07.2024
America This Week, February 7, 2024: "The Destruction of Journalism"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The mania over the Tucker Carlson interview explored in an early release of America This Week. Also, "The Destruction of Kreshev," by the incomparable I.B. Singer
01.19.2024
America This Week, January 19, 2024: "The Creeping Evil of Davos"
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01.12.2024
America This Week, January 12, 2024: "Presidents, the Most Dangerous Game"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt explore the last throes of pre-election madness, recap the DeSantis-Haley unlikability Olympics, and review "The Most Dangerous Game." www.Racket.news
01.05.2024
America This Week, January 05, 2024
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt return from the holidays to discuss Claudine Gay's resignation, Trump's ballot battle, and Anton Chekhov's, "The Lady with the Dog" www.racket.news
12.22.2023
America This Week, December 22, 2023: "Presidential FUBAR"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt talk Colorado, the Transition Integrity Project, and Kurt Vonnegut's unpublished gem, "FUBAR" www.Racket.news
12.15.2023
America This Week, December 15th, 2023: "Leave This Movie Behind"
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12.08.2023
America This Week, December 8th, 2023: "The Hawks Who Cried Wolf"
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12.01.2023
America This Week, December 1st, 2023 “Before the Congress”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news On the House hearing, giving up on Democrats, and “Before the Law” by Kafka www.Racket.news
11.17.2023
America This Week, November 16th, 2023: "Emergency Election"
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11.10.2023
America This Week, November 10th, 2023:
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11.03.2023
America This Week, November 3rd, 2023: "How I Contemplated the Next PATRIOT Act"
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10.13.2023
America This Week, October 13th, 2023: "Tragedy in the Middle East"
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10.06.2023
America This Week, October 6, 2023: "School of Crock"
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09.29.2023
America This Week, September 29, 2023: "The Tell-Tale Reich"
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09.22.2023
America This Week, September 22, 2023
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt on the insta-punishment system unveiled in the Russell Brand case, Britain's increasing role as a testing ground for speech-suppression techques, and Alexander Pushkin's "The...
09.15.2023
America This Week, September 15, 2023: "State Media's Coming-Out Party"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt take on White House journalism instructions, Ukraine's warning to "propagandists" abroad, jarring JFK assassination news, and Fritz Leiber's "Coming Attraction"
09.08.2023
America This Week, September 8, 2023: "Comedy is Not Pretty"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt on Bill Maher, "Strikeforce Suck," and the new era of comedy as narrative-enforcement. Also, "The Lottery of Babylon," by Jose Luis Borges
09.01.2023
America This Week, September 1, 2023: "There Will Be Censorship"
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08.25.2023
America This Week, August 25, 2023: "Normie Politics is Dead"
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08.18.2023
Episode 52: America This Week, August 18, "Indicted Hard With a Vengeance"
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08.11.2023
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08.04.2023
Episode 50: America This Week, August 4, 2023, "The Red-Headed Indictment"
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07.28.2023
Episode 49: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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07.21.2023
Episode 48: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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07.14.2023
Episode 47: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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07.07.2023
Episode 46: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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06.30.2023
Episode 45: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter and Matt avoid the Russia bait-bucket, discuss the Dem’s pathologizing of dissent, and read Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"
06.23.2023
Episode 44: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Listen now | Walter and Matt discuss our love for communal panic, the Titan sub, Lab Leak and a new push against debate, the potential for billionaire...
06.16.2023
Episode 43: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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06.09.2023
Episode 42: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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06.02.2023
Episode 41: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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05.26.2023
Episode 40: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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05.19.2023
Episode 39: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
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05.12.2023
Episode 38: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news On the Department of Homeland Security's creepy community-snitch role-playing exercise, plus Matt and Walter discuss "The Library of Babel" in a new feature
05.05.2023
Episode 37: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Take this Internet and shove it! Walter and Matt discuss the lack of anti-war voices, give up on ever repairing mainstream media, and endorse setting off for...
04.29.2023
Episode 36: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news "ENEMY DUMB, EVIL" : Walter and Matt discuss Tucker Carlson's exit and the successful homogenization of the media landscape
04.21.2023
Episode 35: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Walter for President!

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America This Week episodes:

America This Week, May 17, 2024: "Delusion, Not Just Once A Year"

America This Week, May 10, 2024: Canada Über Alles! On Justin Trudeau's Terrifying New Speech Law

America This Week, May 3, 2024: Gaza, Columbia, and More, in "I&P"

America This Week, April 26, 2024: "The Magic Weekend"

America This Week, April 19, 2024: "To Build a Surveillance State."

America This Week, April 12, 2024: "NPR's Greatest Hits."

America This Week, April 5, 2024: “The Nine Billion RFK Answers Ignored”

America This Week, March 29, 2024: "MSNBC Loses Its Nose Over Ronna"

America This Week, March 22, 2024: "Swimming in the Deep State is Kind of Awesome"

America This Week, March 15, 2024: “A Circle of Censorious Friends”

America This Week, March 1, 2024: "The Surveillance State is a Moody, Sadistic Child"

America This Week, February 23, 2024: "Ukraine’s Blues"

America This Week, February 16, 2024: "How a Political Scandal Fed Two Podcast Hosts"

America This Week, February 7, 2024: "The Destruction of Journalism"

America This Week, January 19, 2024: "The Creeping Evil of Davos"

America This Week, January 12, 2024: "Presidents, the Most Dangerous Game"

America This Week, January 05, 2024

America This Week, December 22, 2023: "Presidential FUBAR"

America This Week, December 15th, 2023: "Leave This Movie Behind"

America This Week, December 8th, 2023: "The Hawks Who Cried Wolf"

America This Week, December 1st, 2023 “Before the Congress”

America This Week, November 16th, 2023: "Emergency Election"

America This Week, November 10th, 2023:

America This Week, November 3rd, 2023: "How I Contemplated the Next PATRIOT Act"

America This Week, October 13th, 2023: "Tragedy in the Middle East"

America This Week, October 6, 2023: "School of Crock"

America This Week, September 29, 2023: "The Tell-Tale Reich"

America This Week, September 22, 2023

America This Week, September 15, 2023: "State Media's Coming-Out Party"

America This Week, September 8, 2023: "Comedy is Not Pretty"

America This Week, September 1, 2023: "There Will Be Censorship"

America This Week, August 25, 2023: "Normie Politics is Dead"

Episode 52: America This Week, August 18, "Indicted Hard With a Vengeance"

CAMPAIGN 2024 PREVIEW: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 50: America This Week, August 4, 2023, "The Red-Headed Indictment"

Episode 49: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 48: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 47: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 46: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 45: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 44: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 43: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 42: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 41: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 40: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 39: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 38: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 37: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 36: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

Episode 35: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

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