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Eric Levitz

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The “populist” crusade to make the suburbs more segregated and expensive

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...

17.03.2026 4

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The Democrats are about to make a trillion-dollar mistake

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...

16.03.2026 20

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The global oil crisis is even worse than it looks

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...

11.03.2026 10

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4 reasons why AI (probably) won’t take your job

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...

05.03.2026 40

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The AI industry’s civil war

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...

04.03.2026 7

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AI could transform the economy by year’s end

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,...

11.02.2026 20

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Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail.

Ever since the United States entrusted its presidency to a would-be insurrectionist in January 2025, many Americans have feared for the integrity of...

09.02.2026 4

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Trump has turned his biggest political asset into a liability

When President Donald Trump launched his deportation campaign last January, he had the American public at his back. Under Joe Biden, unauthorized...

02.02.2026 20

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The dismaying response to a new Alex Pretti video

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....

31.01.2026 20

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The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti

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...

27.01.2026 6

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You don’t need to be a liberal to oppose Trump’s ICE

America’s immigration debate has often centered on the morality of mass deportation. Progressives have argued that exiling law-abiding families is...

24.01.2026 60

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Trump’s war on Wall Street landlords could raise your rent

Wall Street is “gobbling up” America’s homes. Firms with names like BlackRock (or Blackstone or SablePebble) are shouldering their way into...

23.01.2026 20

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A very simple explanation for why politics is broken

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...

20.01.2026 30

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The Trump administration can’t stop winking at white nationalists

Progressives have long argued that Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is a fundamentally fascistic enterprise. In their telling, the president’s...

15.01.2026 100

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The fiction at the heart of America’s political divide

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...

12.01.2026 100

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Trump’s menacingly dishonest response to the Minnesota ICE shooting

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...

09.01.2026 40

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After Venezuela, how far could Trump really go?

After illegally invading Venezuela — and capturing its dictatorial leader — President Donald Trump is threatening to launch similar attacks...

06.01.2026 20

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Did Trump really invade Venezuela for oil?

Over the weekend, the United States invaded Venezuela, captured its leader, and then declared itself to be in charge of South America’s...

05.01.2026 10

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The political backlash to AI is overstated

A widely despised industry is slurping up Americans’ water — and driving up their electricity bills — as part of a nefarious plot to take their...

30.12.2025 8

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America is richer than ever. Why is it so unhappy?

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...

17.12.2025 8

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Older voters are gaining power. Young people are paying the price.

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...

09.12.2025 10

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The twisted reason why Trump is bombing Venezuelan boats

In early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US military to “kill everybody” aboard a speedboat in the Caribbean.  A missile...

04.12.2025 9

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Should the government just ban high prices?

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...

24.11.2025 10

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Is Gen Z “utterly screwed”?

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....

18.11.2025 50

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The Supreme Court just might save Trump from himself

The Supreme Court may soon upend President Donald Trump’s trade war. Various state governments and small businesses are challenging the legality of...

12.11.2025 8

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This is how the Trump coalition unravels

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...

06.11.2025 10

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How would Zohran Mamdani’s dream economy actually work?

Socialists just seized the commanding heights of New York City. On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani — a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of...

05.11.2025 10

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The most likely AI apocalypse

Over the past year, I’ve had many disquieting realizations — that the American voter is more forgiving of insurrections than inflation, that being...

04.11.2025 40

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The job market is getting worse. So why are stocks booming?

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...

31.10.2025 20

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The real reason why Democrats are so unpopular

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...

29.10.2025 30

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5 reasons even conservatives should oppose Trump’s immigration policy

When liberals denounce Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, they often cast his immigration agenda as a case in point. Back in June, Democrats on the...

15.10.2025 9

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The real lesson of Zohran Mamdani’s education controversy

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...

10.10.2025 10

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The real reason Democrats forced a government shutdown

Uncle Sam has closed up shop.  The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Congress failed to extend its annual appropriations. Now, food will...

01.10.2025 10

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Democrats’ shutdown strategy hinges on a risky bet

The Trump administration will use a government shutdown to gut the Democratic Party’s favorite federal agencies.  Or at least, this is what the...

29.09.2025 10

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The big contradiction in progressive thinking about Trump

President Donald Trump has brought American democracy to the brink. But Democrats should not moderate any of their positions, for the sake of...

26.09.2025 7

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Trump’s crackdown on high-skill immigration will make Americans poorer

Donald Trump just transformed America’s high-skill immigration system. In a proclamation Friday, the president imposed a $100,000 fee on all new...

23.09.2025 30

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The comforting fiction that Charlie Kirk’s killer was far-right

There is a deep human impulse to whittle reality down into familiar and self-flattering fairy tales. We all gravitate toward information that...

20.09.2025 10

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The right’s big lie about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension

The Trump administration is openly coercing media organizations into suppressing speech that it does not like.  On Monday night, late-night comedian...

19.09.2025 10

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The right’s vicious, ironic response to Charlie Kirk’s death

Millions of Americans just witnessed a killing.  On Wednesday, scattered amid social media’s banal ephemera — tired memes, partisan agit-prop,...

12.09.2025 10

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Democrats can’t save democracy by shutting down the government

Donald Trump’s government is increasingly authoritarian.  The president is launching pretextual investigations against his enemies, while providing...

10.09.2025 10

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The big problem with “no tax on tips” 

The Democratic Party’s problems have a two-word solution: “economic populism.” Or so suggests much recent commentary (including, to an extent,...

04.09.2025 10

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Do liberals need to choose between defending democracy and the Fed?

Donald Trump has declared war on the Federal Reserve’s independence. On Monday, the president ordered the removal of Lisa Cook from the central...

28.08.2025 8

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What far-left cranks get right about the housing crisis 

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...

26.08.2025 10

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A dangerous new idea about what Democrats are doing wrong

Polling is “90% bullshit.” In fact, all political data is “garbage.” The Democratic consultants who traffic in such numbers are perpetrating a...

18.08.2025 20

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Why Trump’s tariffs could live forever 

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are slowing economic growth, raising prices, undermining American manufacturing, marginalizing the US...

06.08.2025 10

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Turns out the Trump economy is not doing so well after all

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...

04.08.2025 20

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5 reasons Democrats are in good shape — and 2 reasons they’re in deep trouble

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...

01.08.2025 30

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Democrats are right to flirt with Trump-Epstein conspiracies

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...

18.07.2025 8

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The lie at the heart of Trump’s entire economic agenda

With his tax agenda finally passed, Donald Trump has turned back to his true passion: making America poorer and more geopolitically isolated for no...

16.07.2025 9

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The wrong lesson to take from Trump’s gutting of Medicaid

Last week, the Senate passed the largest cut to America’s welfare state in modern history. President Donald Trump’s inaptly named “One Big...

09.07.2025 9

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