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What’s the Matter with Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi?

Tech billionaires and iconoclast journalists suddenly see eye to eye.

Apr 20, 2025
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By Jacob Bacharach

ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID LITMAN

A few weeks into 2025, Ross Douthat, The New York Times’ idiosyncratically conservative columnist, interviewed Marc Andreessen: Netscape co-founder, venture capitalist, general Silicon Valley gadabout, and, lately, fixture in Trump-adjacent Washington, where he has reportedly been interviewing candidates for…

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