Chris Lehmann

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Chris Lehmann is the DC Bureau chief for The Nation and a contributing editor at The Baffler. He was formerly editor of The Baffler and The New Republic, and is the author, most recently, of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream (Melville House, 2016).

Michael Cohen, former president Donald Trump's former attorney, arrives at his home after leaving Manhattan Criminal Court on May 13, 2024, in New York City.

Michael Cohen’s Testimony Reveals the Sad Life of a Trump Toady Michael Cohen’s Testimony Reveals the Sad Life of a Trump Toady

Trump’s former lawyer described in court how the former president demands total sycophancy from his underlings.

May 14, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

President Joe Biden in Emancipation Hall at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2024. Biden denounced antisemitism at college campus protests against Israel during an annual Holocaust commemoration.

What Biden’s Holocaust Speech Ignored What Biden’s Holocaust Speech Ignored

The president’s ahistorical account of Gaza failed to acknowledge the discomfiting truth that brutalized communities can visit the same traumas on others.

May 8, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

Donald Trump listens as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024.

Kristi Noem Is the Latest Republican to Learn You Can’t Out-Trump Donald Trump Kristi Noem Is the Latest Republican to Learn You Can’t Out-Trump Donald Trump

The South Dakota governor's attempt at mimicking the former president’s obstreperous public image has fallen disastrously flat.

May 7, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage

The magazine has unleashed its top writers on the Palestine student movement. The results have been as dire as you might imagine.

May 6, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and ranking member Richard Neal, (D-MA) in the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC.

The Bipartisan War on Pro-Palestinian Activism The Bipartisan War on Pro-Palestinian Activism

A House bill asks the Treasury to revoke the nonprofit status of suspected “terrorist supporting organizations.” Advocates are already singling out Muslim and Palestinian groups.

Apr 29, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

The National Enquirer in a Florence, South Carolina, supermarket on September 14, 2016.

Pecker Exposes Lengths Taken to Please Trump Pecker Exposes Lengths Taken to Please Trump

Testimony by the former National Enquirer publisher detailed the Trump campaign’s involvement in directing the tabloid's coverage of the 2016 election.

Apr 24, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill, in March 2024.

The House Foreign Aid Bills Have Put a Target on Mike Johnson’s Back The House Foreign Aid Bills Have Put a Target on Mike Johnson’s Back

After a vote in favor of sending $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed, far right Republicans are threatening a motion to vacate the speaker of the house.

Apr 22, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

NPR

NPR’s Problems Won’t Be Solved by “Viewpoint Diversity” NPR’s Problems Won’t Be Solved by “Viewpoint Diversity”

Society / April 18, 2024 NPR’s Problems Won’t Be Solved by “Viewpoint Diversity” An embattled NPR editor denouncing the network’s practices fails to understand them—or the prac…

Apr 18, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

The Trump Revival

The Trump Revival The Trump Revival

To a growing contingent of right-wing evangelical Christians, Donald Trump isn’t just an aspiring two-term president. He’s an actual prophet.

Apr 15, 2024 / Feature / Chris Lehmann

Donald Trump is greeted by Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) before the 2020 State of the Union address in the House chamber on February 4, 2020, in Washington, DC.

House Republicans Tie Themselves Into Knots Over Federal Surveillance House Republicans Tie Themselves Into Knots Over Federal Surveillance

The vote to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rose and fell and rose again on the whims of one Donald J. Trump.

Apr 15, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

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