Named one of fifty Power Punks of 2003 by the New York Observer, Matt Taibbi is a writer for Rolling Stone and a longtime media critic. He recently returned from Russia, where he edited the satirical magazine The eXile. He has also played professional basketball in Mongolia. The author of Spanking the Donkey (The New Press), Insane Clown President, and The Great Derangement, among other books, he lives in Manhattan.