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Eric LevitzDaily Intelligencer |
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The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...
The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...
The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...
The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...
It’s February 2020 again. An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and upend our economy,...
Ever since the United States entrusted its presidency to a would-be insurrectionist in January 2025, many Americans have feared for the integrity of...
When President Donald Trump launched his deportation campaign last January, he had the American public at his back. Under Joe Biden, unauthorized...
Last Wednesday, a video surfaced of Alex Pretti kicking out the taillight of an ICE vehicle, 11 days before Border Patrol agents shot him to death....
A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both. Despite the burning in...
America’s immigration debate has often centered on the morality of mass deportation. Progressives have argued that exiling law-abiding families is...
Wall Street is “gobbling up” America’s homes. Firms with names like BlackRock (or Blackstone or SablePebble) are shouldering their way into...
In today’s America, the less money a white voter has, the more likely they are to support Donald Trump. Whites in the bottom 10 percent of...
Progressives have long argued that Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is a fundamentally fascistic enterprise. In their telling, the president’s...
America’s most impassioned Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much. Ask the inhabitants of Bluesky and Truth Social whether a fetus is a...
Renee Nicole Good sat idling in her car Wednesday, observing an ongoing ICE operation. The 37-year-old then attempted to drive away, reportedly at the...
After illegally invading Venezuela — and capturing its dictatorial leader — President Donald Trump is threatening to launch similar attacks...
Over the weekend, the United States invaded Venezuela, captured its leader, and then declared itself to be in charge of South America’s...
A widely despised industry is slurping up Americans’ water — and driving up their electricity bills — as part of a nefarious plot to take their...
Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history. We live in homes conditioned to our ideal...
America is getting old. Between 1960 and 2024, the share of Americans over 65 doubled — from 9 percent to 18 percent. And the US will only grow...
In early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US military to “kill everybody” aboard a speedboat in the Caribbean. A missile...
Voters want stuff to be cheaper. To most economists, the best way to make things more affordable is to make them more plentiful: When the supply of a...
Gen Z was born too late. By the 2020s, the boomers had already bought up all the houses, while the millennials had commandeered the good careers....
The Supreme Court may soon upend President Donald Trump’s trade war. Various state governments and small businesses are challenging the legality of...
The Republican Party has had better days. In Tuesday’s off-year elections, the GOP lost every major race by a mile. Democratic candidates won the...
Socialists just seized the commanding heights of New York City. On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani — a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of...
Over the past year, I’ve had many disquieting realizations — that the American voter is more forgiving of insurrections than inflation, that being...
It’s getting harder to find a job and easier to lose one. Employers are hiring workers at a steadily lower rate while laying them off at a rising...
The Democratic Party has spent most of the past decade deciding to lose. Or so argues a new report from Welcome PAC, an organization that backs...
When liberals denounce Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, they often cast his immigration agenda as a case in point. Back in June, Democrats on the...
Last week, Zohran Mamdani revealed that, if he wins the mayorship this fall, he will end New York City’s “gifted and talented” program for...
Uncle Sam has closed up shop. The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Congress failed to extend its annual appropriations. Now, food will...
The Trump administration will use a government shutdown to gut the Democratic Party’s favorite federal agencies. Or at least, this is what the...
President Donald Trump has brought American democracy to the brink. But Democrats should not moderate any of their positions, for the sake of...
Donald Trump just transformed America’s high-skill immigration system. In a proclamation Friday, the president imposed a $100,000 fee on all new...
There is a deep human impulse to whittle reality down into familiar and self-flattering fairy tales. We all gravitate toward information that...
The Trump administration is openly coercing media organizations into suppressing speech that it does not like. On Monday night, late-night comedian...
Millions of Americans just witnessed a killing. On Wednesday, scattered amid social media’s banal ephemera — tired memes, partisan agit-prop,...
Donald Trump’s government is increasingly authoritarian. The president is launching pretextual investigations against his enemies, while providing...
The Democratic Party’s problems have a two-word solution: “economic populism.” Or so suggests much recent commentary (including, to an extent,...
Donald Trump has declared war on the Federal Reserve’s independence. On Monday, the president ordered the removal of Lisa Cook from the central...
America is short on homes. There are 4.7 million fewer housing units than families in the United States, according to a recent report from the real...
Polling is “90% bullshit.” In fact, all political data is “garbage.” The Democratic consultants who traffic in such numbers are perpetrating a...
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are slowing economic growth, raising prices, undermining American manufacturing, marginalizing the US...
The US economy is bending — but not yet breaking — beneath the weight of President Donald Trump’s nationalist agenda. That is the story told by...
The Democratic Party’s approval rating is at its lowest point in at least 35 years, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released last week. In...
Democrats want you to know that President Donald Trump definitely might be protecting a cabal of child abusers. Or so the party’s recent messaging...
With his tax agenda finally passed, Donald Trump has turned back to his true passion: making America poorer and more geopolitically isolated for no...
Last week, the Senate passed the largest cut to America’s welfare state in modern history. President Donald Trump’s inaptly named “One Big...