All 26 articles by Chris Lehmann
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Features
Morning Jo(k)e
Joe Scarborough and the Beltway austerians think Nobelist Paul Krugman is a nut. Really, Joe?
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No Sanctuary in the Ivory Tower
Why didn't MIT defend Aaron Swartz?
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Year of the White-Guy Meltdown
Boehner's f-bomb, LaPierre’s rant ... have the white men in power simply lost it?
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Blinded by Thrift Store Irony
It makes very little sense to characterize irony, strictly speaking, as a matter of self-presentation.
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Weak Teavangelicals
Despite great efforts, Billy Graham and his flock failed to pull out a Romney win. Is the 'values voter' era over?
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Rich Deserts
Our new cult of money ensures that breeding shall evermore speak to breeding.
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Ryan Shrugged
Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan can't shake his Randian roots.
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GOP Time Travelers and Other Hucksters
The misguided semantics paving the way to November's election
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The Class That Dare Not Speak its Name
The talk deemed too "political" for TED.
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HBO’s Female Regression Analysis: Girls and Veep
American pop culture teems with characters afraid of adult responsibilities.
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Rubes’ Gold in Sacks
The very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs executive exposes what most already knew: The firm is morally bankrupt.
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No Bark, Less Bite—That Dog Don’t Hunt
Are America's long-running culture wars drawing to a close?
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A Hipstamatic Moment
Kodak is bankrupt. But we still crave the instant nostalgia that was once the company's hallmark.
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Christopher Hitchens: A D.C. Requiem
The fawning homages triggered by the prolific polemicist's death missed the true tragedy of his later career.
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Hollywood’s Fraud-Free Fantasies
On the big and small screens, the entertainment industry fails to explain why the U.S. economy collapsed.
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Au Revoir, Noblesse Oblige
The sense of duty America's ruling class once felt to support the greater good is gone.
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Tea Party Death Trip
Why are some Americans so comfortable letting fellow citizens die?
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When a Paradigm Falls and Nobody Hears It
The neoliberal status quo is indefensible—yet the public silently accepts its supposed legitimacy.
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Murdoch’s Minor Setback
Don’t believe the humility: The mogul’s empire is not crumbling.
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Let Them Eat Megabytes
Our media and pop culture offers virtually no indictment of the signal malady of our age: rampant inequality.
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Oprah’s Celebrity Pyramid Scheme
The daytime talk goddess' therapeutic theology ultimately leads into a blind alley.
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Scofflaws, Elected or Otherwise
America has entered a surreal post-accountability age.
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Twilight of the Social Critics
David Brooks' latest book, The Social Animal, does not bode well for post-crisis America.
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The Babbitt of the Bobos
Is David Brooks America's most misguided pundit?
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Freedom of the Press Moguls
The Newseum, the latest addition to Washington's sprawling, preening, self-singing monument-memorial complex, may boast a constitutional amendment engraved...
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