Matt Taibbi is contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine and the author of several books. They include Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap and Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus.
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