chrislehmann
@chrislehmann.bsky.social
DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
The Nuzzi seizure of power: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Nuzzi Seizure of Power
The journalist’s rise and fall and rise again looks like a performance of tabloid drama. But really, it’s Beltway access reporting taken to its natural extreme.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Nuzzi seizure of power: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
It happened here, and how: my latest Nation print column www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The 1935 Novel That Predicted Trump’s Second Term
Sinclair Lewis imagined an American version of the rise of fascism in Europe. His predictions didn’t come true then, but seem eerily familiar now.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It happened here, and how: my latest Nation print column www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein and the predators' code: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Who’s Afraid of the Epstein Files?
The release of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents is likely to implicate a whole network of members of the American ruling class.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Jeffrey Epstein and the predators' code: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump's Epstein-dammerung: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Epstein Files Could Sink Finally Donald Trump
New emails show Trump knew of Epstein’s trafficking. As sickening as it is, it should be no surprise.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trump's Epstein-dammerung: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The socialism of fools without the socialism
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The socialism of fools without the socialism
MAGA rendered powerless by hurled sandwich: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
DC’s Antifascist Hero—Sandwich Guy—Is Free
A jury refuses to succumb to MAGA’s condiment conspiracy theory.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
MAGA rendered powerless by hurled sandwich: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Turns out that ruling on the brutality of a sandwich assault is a lot like adjudicating a reception in the NFL
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Turns out that ruling on the brutality of a sandwich assault is a lot like adjudicating a reception in the NFL
I think he's better off keeping to the "I haven't heard anything about this" line
Johnson: I don't think the loss last night was any reflection about Republicans at all.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I think he's better off keeping to the "I haven't heard anything about this" line
Can the Dems capitalize on Trump's plunging approval ratings? My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Hit a New Low
And Democrats need to seize the moment—for once.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Can the Dems capitalize on Trump's plunging approval ratings? My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Just thinking back to 2020, when savvy Resistance Democrats were lobbying to replace Joe Biden at the top of the presidential ticket with Andrew Cuomo.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Just thinking back to 2020, when savvy Resistance Democrats were lobbying to replace Joe Biden at the top of the presidential ticket with Andrew Cuomo.
The great @attackerman.bsky.social weighs in on the gruesome Cheney legacy at @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The great @attackerman.bsky.social weighs in on the gruesome Cheney legacy at @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Dick Cheney, we knew you all too fucking well. observer.com/2007/07/chen...
Cheney Undisclosed: Flattering Biography Never Lifts the Veil
CHENEY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL VICE PRESIDENTBy Stephen F. HayesHarperCollins, 578 pages, $27.95“Untold story” is right. Weekly Standard senior writer Stephen…
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November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Dick Cheney, we knew you all too fucking well. observer.com/2007/07/chen...
Mike Johnson's hollowed-out House: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Mike Johnson’s House Is Fox News With a Gavel
The House speaker admits that his legislative chamber no longer matters. That’s the outcome of a series of deliberate leadership decisions to ensure its powerlessness.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Mike Johnson's hollowed-out House: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My old masthead home at @thebaffler.com graciously let me hold forth on the not-so-great American Trump novel: thebaffler.com/salvos/ameri...
American Gothics | Chris Lehmann
Literary elites have greeted the great crisis of the present age with little more than a collective puzzled shrug.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My old masthead home at @thebaffler.com graciously let me hold forth on the not-so-great American Trump novel: thebaffler.com/salvos/ameri...
Corruption and the MAGA wrecking crew: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The White House Is Being Destroyed Because Corruption Doesn't Matter Anymore
The demolition of the East Wing is a symbol of a system that long ago stopped caring about the kind of blatant graft that Trump loves.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Corruption and the MAGA wrecking crew: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Stop blaming poor Elbridge Gerry. He didn't do this.
John Roberts did. We should name it after him.
It's Robertsmandering now.
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John Roberts did. We should name it after him.
It's Robertsmandering now.
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Welcome to the Age of the Robertsmander
The chief justice has let partisan gerrymanders flourish, and created the conditions for near-permanent minority rule.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Stop blaming poor Elbridge Gerry. He didn't do this.
John Roberts did. We should name it after him.
It's Robertsmandering now.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
John Roberts did. We should name it after him.
It's Robertsmandering now.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Memphis blues clash: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Why Justin Pearson Wants to Unseat a 10-Term Democratic Incumbent in Congress
The Tennessee state representative explains why he is facing off against Steve Cohen to be the Democratic nominee to represent the Memphis area in Washington.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Memphis blues clash: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Fake economist declares love for fake actress
🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood.
Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...
Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...
October 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fake economist declares love for fake actress
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How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military
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How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military
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How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military
A grassroots campaign successful pressured the tech monopoly to take an unprecedented step toward suspending its complicity in the Gaza genocide
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October 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New from me @thenation.com
How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military
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How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military
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Lies, damn lies, and the MAGA shutdown: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Government Shutdown Is Based on a 16-Year-Old Lie
In 2009, Republicans falsely claimed that the Affordable Care Act would benefit undocumented immigrants. They’re still peddling the same bullshit.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lies, damn lies, and the MAGA shutdown: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Searchlight to nowhere: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/politics/searchlight-adam-jentleson/?nc=1
The Latest New Democratic Think Tank Is a Dead End
The Searchlight Institute, founded by former senate staffer Adam Jentelson, epitomizes the careerist tendencies of white-collar workers on the Hill.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Searchlight to nowhere: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/politics/searchlight-adam-jentleson/?nc=1
Jeffries agonistes: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani/?nc=1
Hakeem Jeffries Is the Kind of Democrat Voters Have Lost Faith in
With most New York Democrats endorsing their party's candidate for mayor, the two minority leaders in Congress remain holdouts.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Jeffries agonistes: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani/?nc=1
Democracy dies in self-inflicted dipshittery.
“Evidence suggests the shooter might have been motivated at least in part by left-wing ideology”
That’s the Washpost editorial page.
Today.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
That’s the Washpost editorial page.
Today.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | After Charlie Kirk’s killing, suspect’s family put the country first
A father’s choice spared the country further agony by accelerating justice in this case.
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September 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Democracy dies in self-inflicted dipshittery.
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The horrors of the Epstein Birthday book and how the press is already overlooking them: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Why Is “The Washington Post” Whitewashing Epstein’s Stomach-Churning Birthday Book?
In their social circle, Trump and Epstein were so identified as predators that the pair trafficking young women would be instantly recognized as fodder for a joke.
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September 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The horrors of the Epstein Birthday book and how the press is already overlooking them: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...