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DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
The socialism of fools without the socialism
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MAGA rendered powerless by hurled sandwich: my latest for
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DC’s Antifascist Hero—Sandwich Guy—Is Free
A jury refuses to succumb to MAGA’s condiment conspiracy theory.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sean-dunn-sandwich-guy-dc-liberation/
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Turns out that ruling on the brutality of a sandwich assault is a lot like adjudicating a reception in the NFL
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5 days ago
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I think he's better off keeping to the "I haven't heard anything about this" line
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Can the Dems capitalize on Trump's plunging approval ratings? My latest for
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Trump’s Approval Ratings Have Hit a New Low
And Democrats need to seize the moment—for once.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-approval-ratings-low/
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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.
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The great
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@thenation.com
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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.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dick-cheney-war-on-terror-executive-power/
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Dick Cheney, we knew you all too fucking well.
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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…
https://observer.com/2007/07/cheney-undisclosed-flattering-biography-never-lifts-the-veil/
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Mike Johnson's hollowed-out House: my latest for
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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.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mike-johnson-house-shutdown/
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My old masthead home at
@thebaffler.com
graciously let me hold forth on the not-so-great American Trump novel:
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American Gothics | Chris Lehmann
Literary elites have greeted the great crisis of the present age with little more than a collective puzzled shrug.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/american-gothics-lehmann
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Corruption and the MAGA wrecking crew: my latest for
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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.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-house-demolition-trump-corruption/
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David Daley
24 days ago
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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Welcome to the Age of the Robertsmander
The chief justice has let partisan gerrymanders flourish, and created the conditions for near-permanent minority rule.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gerrymandering-john-roberts-us-supreme-court/
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Memphis blues clash: my latest for
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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.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/justin-pearson-tennessee-ninth-congressional-district/
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Fake economist declares love for fake actress
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Maximillian Alvarez
about 1 month ago
New from me
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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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Lies, damn lies, and the MAGA shutdown: my latest for
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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.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/government-shutdown-aca/
about 1 month ago
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Searchlight to nowhere: my latest for
@thenation.com
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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.
https://thenation.com/article/politics/searchlight-adam-jentleson/?nc=1
about 2 months ago
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Jeffries agonistes: my latest for
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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.
https://thenation.com/article/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani/?nc=1
about 2 months ago
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Democracy dies in self-inflicted dipshittery.
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about 2 months ago
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Elizabeth Spiers
about 2 months ago
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners:
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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
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
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The horrors of the Epstein Birthday book and how the press is already overlooking them: my latest for
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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.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-birthday-book-trump-washington-post/
2 months ago
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MAGA's media enablers: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Why the Media Allows MAGA to Cover Up Their Lies With More Lies
The MAGA movement can “walk back” outrageous statements, and the press hardly asks a follow-up.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/walk-back-media-maga-trump-lies/
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Had a brief giddy moment when I imagined Democrats using the Epstein birthday greeting in attack ads under the slogan, "Do you want to vote for this, America?" Then I remembered what party we're dealing with here
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Jack Mirkinson
2 months ago
blogged for
@thenation.com
about bari weiss taking over at cbs news. it would be great not to live in a world where being the worst person imaginable doesn't get you fame fortune and power. alas. may cbs staffers revolt and may her tenure be short and failed!
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Vile Grifters Are Taking Over Establishment Media
Paramount is reportedly set to pay between $100 and $200 million for The Free Press and will install Bari Weiss at the top of CBS News.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bari-weiss-free-press-cbs-news-paramount/
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The Democrats' Zohran-phobia: my latest for
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What Makes Democrats So Afraid of Zohan Mamdani?
With Trump's power grabs escalating, the Democratic establishment is still taking the time to fret over a rising star in its own party.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/establishment-democrats-fear-zohran/
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Amos Posner
2 months ago
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
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From the "Way Too Late, Asshole" files:
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‘Lacking Legitimacy’: Sen. Bill Cassidy Breaks With RFK Jr. After CDC Leadership Exodus
He called on a key government vaccine panel to postpone its upcoming meeting.
https://www.notus.org/health-science/senator-bill-cassidy-rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-cdc-director-susan-monarez-leadership-exodus
2 months ago
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Opinion | E.J. Antoni Is the Right Man for BLS
A serious economist, he will restore the credibility of the bureau’s statistics.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/e-j-antoni-is-the-right-man-for-bls-politics-policy-a8851da1?st=C3qMzc
2 months ago
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Trump's Fed putsch: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Trump’s Attempt to Fire Lisa Cook From the Fed Is a Naked Power Play
The president’s targeting the Federal Reserve governor over a technicality is blatantly politically motivated.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-lisa-cook-fed/
2 months ago
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What cost occupation? My latest for
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Trump’s Occupation Could Cost Billions
And DC residents will be footing much of the bill.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dc-occupation-billions/
3 months ago
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Impeachment now! Making the case in
@harpers.bsky.social
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The Decisive Moment, by Chris Lehmann
Why Congress must impeach Trump
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/09/the-decisive-moment-chris-lehmann-why-congress-must-impeach-trump-revision/
3 months ago
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Dems in the rearguard of public opinion: my latest for
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Democrats Need to Stop Letting Trump Set the Terms of Engagement
With every White House action, from mass deportation to the domestic deployment of federal troops the so-called opposition party has accepted the premise and failed to offer an alternative.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-trump-dc-troops/
3 months ago
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What's behind Trump's war on mail-in ballots--my latest for
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Trump Targets Mail-In Voting, and the Democrats Phone in Their Counter-Strategies
Trump has launched an all-out assault on civic freedoms, but the Democrats aren’t yet giving their base something to vote for.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-mail-voting-democrats-counter-strategies/
3 months ago
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MAGA's future-phobia: my latest for
@thenation.com
thenation.com/article/society/maga-fear-future/?nc=1
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MAGA Conservatives Are Terrified of the Future
Trump and his followers don’t just want to halt progress. They want to turn back the clock.
https://thenation.com/article/society/maga-fear-future/?nc=1
3 months ago
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A new wave of BS at the BLS: my latest for
@thenation.com
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The Case Against E.J. Antoni
Opposing his nomination to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the one thing the left and right can agree on.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ej-antoni-bls-trump-jobs/
3 months ago
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We have reached peak Benny Johnson
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Jacob Silverman
3 months ago
Publishers Weekly gave GILDED RAGE a starred review: "an ominous window into the extremism, accelerationism, and “fusion of corporate and state power” at the highest levels of U.S. politics."
www.publishersweekly.com/9781399419987
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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by Jacob Silverman
In this incisive account, journalist Silverman (Terms of Service) tracks the rise of reactionary conservative politics among Sil...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781399419987
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Maximillian Alvarez
3 months ago
Baltimore! Come to
@redemmas.org
tonight for a blockbuster event. Truly couldn't be more excited to be on stage with my mentor Chris Lehmann of
@thenation.com
to celebrate and discuss brother
@ositanwanevu.com
's vital new book THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE.
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Book launch: Osita Nwanevu presents "The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding" w/Chris Lehmann and Max Alvarez
A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real—from a formidable new voice in political journalism
https://redemmas.org/events/book-launch-osita-nwanevu-presents-the-right-of-the-people-democracy-and-the-case-for-a-new-american-founding-w-chris-lehmann-and-max-alvarez/
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DC under MAGA siege: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Washington, D.C. Is Under a State of Siege
Trump has put the nation’s capital under federal occupation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/washington-dc-trump-federal-occupation/
3 months ago
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Trump's war with the past: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Trump Wants to Make the Confederacy Great Again
The president is making a big push to rewrite the past in favor of some of America's top historical traitors, racists, and scumbags.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/albert-pike-statue-national-park-trump/
3 months ago
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Dems and the resistance grift: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Those Constant Texts Asking You to Donate to Democrats Are Scams
A new analysis shows that if you give $100 to an appeal run by a leading Democratic Party vendor, only $1.60 will actually go to the campaign.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mothership-strategies-democratic-consultants-fundraising-pleas/
3 months ago
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How the Dems can still fail the midterms: my latest for
@thenation.com
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How Democrats Could Blow the Midterms
With Trump's popularity in freefall, 2026 should be a gimme for the opposition. But there are signs that the Dems could sleepwalk into disaster.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-midterms-polling/
3 months ago
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The Columbia cave-in: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Columbia’s Settlement With Trump Is Pure Cowardice
The university agreed to a $221 million payout, tacitly conceding spurious right-wing conspiracy theories about higher education.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-trump-settlement/
4 months ago
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The subhed here really needs to be the name of all future Chris Cillizza columns
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4 months ago
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Jeffrey Epstein, House-wrecker: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Republicans Would Rather Shut Down Congress Than Discuss the Epstein Files
The lesson for Democrats is that they should force confrontations, especially when they drive a wedge into the GOP base.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-house-epstein-rules-committee/
4 months ago
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Jacob Silverman
6 months ago
Here's the cover for my next book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," about the rise of the tech right and the 2024 election. Available for pre-order now. In bookstores 10/7/25.
gildedrage.com
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MAGA's Epstein crack-up: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Trump’s Deep-State Conspiracy Theories Are Getting Beyond His Control
The president’s denial of the existence of government material on Jeffrey Epstein isn’t going over well with his followers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-epstein-client-list/
4 months ago
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Armed McCarthyism: my latest for
@thenation.com
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ICE Is Following the Lead of Anti-Palestinian Doxxing Groups
The agency's brutal racial profiling has drawn its latest targets from the McCarthyite blacklists of organizations like Canary Mission.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ice-canary-mission/
4 months ago
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Egging on Elon: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Hear Me Out: We Should Welcome In Musk’s “America Party”
The tech mogul's latest intervention in US politics serves as a perfect proof-of-concept for the futility and stupidity of billionaire-driven politics.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/hear-me-out-we-should-welcome-in-musks-america-party/
4 months ago
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The big brutal immigration police state: my latest for
@thenation.com
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Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s floundering over immigration leaves it without an opposition strategy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-bill-police-state/
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