Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi has long been one of the fiercest, funniest political reporters in the biz. He has chased down stories in Iraq and New Orleans, and he’s hung out with everyone from John Kerry to Stephen Colbert, writing about his adventures both in Rolling Stone and in his regular online column, The Low Post.

Now you get a chance to pick his brain. Next Thursday, June 21st, Matt will answer your email questions. Start sending them right now to Taibbi@RollingStone.com. Want to know what John Kerry’s really like? Is Dick Cheney actually that evil? What’s Matt’s favorite breakfast cereal? Fire away — it’s all fair game.

There will be obituaries of Yeltsin on the front page of every major newspaper in the world tomorrow. There will be bromides, there will be asides…but none of them will have the force and directness you’d expect from our own Matt Taibbi, who — from his vantage high atop the leadership of the infamous Moscow-based newspaper The Exile — witnessed first-hand every single year of Boris’ mismanagement of the fall of communism. Cut through the crap and feast on the latest installment of The Low Post…and, as always, let us know what you think.

The minute the Imus situation blew up, did you know exactly what was going to happen? If so, you might enjoy Matt Taibbi’s vicious new column, in which not one of the major players — Snoop Dogg, major media, Al Sharpton — is spared a bit of mercy. Check it out and let us know what you’ve learned in the wake of the latest, lamest “censorship” battle.

In his latest column, Matt Taibbi, turns a bleary eye to campaign coverage of the 2008 election. Surprise! It’s a bunch of gossip-y, puff piece crap. Check it out — don’t miss hilariously damning assessments of select New York Times articles — and let us know what you think.

In his latest column, Matt Taibbi writes that the Republicans like Lincoln Diaz-Balart had for more than a decade run Congress “like a basement cock-fighting ring.” And just two months out of power, he says, “they’re already transformed into a bunch of squawking dissidents more pretentious than Rage Against the Machine.”

What’s your take?

Below is a letter home from an unnamed Marine F/A -18 pilot in Iraq. Read Matt Taibbi’s latest column and share your reactions.

The fellas from 121 started showing up the other day. It’s starting to sink in…I’ll have to go home, the opportunities to kill these fuckers is rapidly coming to an end. Like a hobby I’ll never get to practice again. It’s not a great war, but it’s the only one we’ve got. God, I do love killing these bastards…Morale is high, the Marines can smell the barn. It’s hard to keep them focused. I still have 20 days of kill these motherfuckers, so I don’t wanna take even one day off.

This week, Matt Taibbi takes on Time columnist Joe Klein and the ways Iraq war apologists/Bush pals continue to defend the battle plan and, worse, how they demonize war critics as liberal “leftists” who are “rooting” for America to lose. Sound familiar? The matter is still urgent, given Klein’s recent column about McCain’s “consistency” on the war. The only thing consistent about opinion on the war, Taibbi argues, is how inconsistent its proponents are, how much they’ve gained from attacking the other sides’ waffling (read: flip flop) and how little it all matters in the face of another day, another helicopter down.

Check out the story and share your thoughts here.

Hillary’s got a gambling addiction! Barack smoked opium with the One Eyed Sheik in the ’80s! McCain enjoyed his torture — and hates freedom maybe a little bit! Tom Vilsack…pays to much for car insurance.

It’s the season of the smear. We’ve only just begun the runup to the 2008 presidential election, and as Matt Taibbi argues in his latest column, “The Scum Also Rises,” we’ve gotten an ugly look at where politics is heading.

Find out how bad it’s gonna get, and give your own forecast here.