Topic: History

Even on a partly-to-fully cloudy day, you can see wonders when atop the Montauk Lighthouse. The Camp Hero radar dish is a few miles southwest, and Block Island and Connecticut are a skip across the Sound. The climb of 137 steps brings you to 110.5 feet above the ground and several more above sea level.

What makes Matt Taibbi a good journalist? Find out from the man himself. In the fourth installment of our series of interviews with the Rolling Stone writer, Plum's Anthony Gray talks with Taibbi about personal reporting techniques, and other journalists, such as Hunter S. Thompson, that he admires.

Taibbi on the 2008 Election in Part 1.

Taibbi on Congress in Part 2.

Taibbi on Iraq in Part 3.

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The war in Iraq is now approaching its fifth year, and it remains as heavy of an issue now as it did since its beginning. In the third part of our series of interviews with Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, the journalist speaks with Anthony Gray about Congress' role in keeping track of specific Iraq projects, the $8 billion in cash that was lost, and government safeguards now in place to fix these problems.

See Taibbi's take on the 2008 Election in Part 1.

See Taibbi's take on Congress in Part 2.

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