To help our listeners join in on the conversation and share their own voice, Rolling Stone — in partnership with Yappa — will take our weekly Useful Idiots platform and transform the podcast into a live virtual event series. “Useful Idiots” is hosted by contributing veteran editor, Matt Taibbi and …
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Is the world’s biggest political road show enough to win an election? Matt Taibbi heads to Springfield, Virginia to a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in the run-up to Super Tuesday. Are his supporters feeling the Bern? Yes. Baby Yoda tees? Check. “Black people love Bernie,” says one supporter. The enthusiasm …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast. They discuss how Mike Bloomberg or Bernie Sanders would square up in a general election against Trump, Wall …
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