Chris Lehmann

Was The New York Times just bamboozled by a grifter? Earlier this month, the paper of record ran what it clearly intended as an inspirational story

Taking a break from convulsing the news cycle with nonsensical ultimatums about the Iran war, President Donald Trump elected to stir things up at

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism

When Republicans looked like they would engineer a massive midterm advantage by stealing House seats via mid-decade redistricting, Democrats didn't wring their hands and whine about the unfairness of it all.

Or to ever hold another one again. This weekend's assassination attempt targeting members of the Trump administration has provoked the

This weekend's assassination attempt targeting members of the Trump administration has provoked the now-standard suite of responses to outbreaks of political violence: the rush to detect rigid partisan motivations in an otherwise messy and meaning-challenged act ; the bad-faith demands to suppress political speech ; the high-formalist calls for national unity from on high.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially eviscerated the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in Callais v Louisiana.

On the morning of May 6, the FBI raided the office, and a clutch of businesses, belonging to an 82-year-old Virginia state lawmaker named L.

Watergate analogies, together with the cursed “-gate” suffix , are often the most glib and least useful analytic devices in assessing the scale of government corruption.

Remember the Golden Age? That was the main pitch behind Donald Trump's 2024 reelection campaign: On his return, he'd tame the inflationary legacy