Eric Levitz

In the United States, building a data center now polls roughly as well as abolishing the police. If current trends continue, server warehouses may soon be less popular with Americans than pizza top...

Americans want to soak the rich. But few have strong opinions about precisely how.  Indeed, even among our nation’s most impassioned class warriors, contemplating the fine details of tax policy is ...

The general election for Wisconsin governor is now a week old. But the past seven days of debate between the race’s Republican and Democratic candidates can be paraphrased in just two lines: “My op...

In recent months, two ideas that were once on the fringes of Democratic policy thinking — cutting off financial support and stopping arms transfers to Israel — have gone mainstream. Nearly half of ...

New Yorkers will soon enjoy a 30 percent discount on their meat, seafood, milk, and bread — so long as they shop at a city-owned store. Mayor Zohran Mamdani touted such bargains this week at a pres...

The AI industry’s investors and critics don’t agree on much. But many in each camp share at least one basic conviction: America’s top labs are about to make a killing.  Capital markets have signale...

Abdul El-Sayed is among America’s most prominent proponents of Medicare-for-all.  The frontrunner in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary literally wrote the book on that policy (or at least, a boo...

The Democratic Socialists of America say they are fighting for “a government by, for, and of the working class.”  Yet the organization’s membership and candidates consist largely of educated profes...

President Donald Trump blames immigrants for virtually every problem in American economic life. In the president’s telling, the undocumented have been taking American-born citizens’ jobs, lowering ...

As America’s housing crisis deepens, policymakers are increasingly turning to an old idea for improving affordability: making large rent increases illegal. In recent years. Oregon, Washington, and ...

The left is painting Blue America rose. In just the past two weeks, four insurgent left-wing candidates — including three socialists — have won Democratic congressional primaries. The latest victor...

New York’s congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to be the moment AI’s top backers definitively proved they could bend US politics to their will. Instead, they left behind a muddy stalem...

AI is rapidly gaining abilities that once belonged to humanity alone. In just the past four years, chatbots have learned how to build apps, make video games, generate research reports, compose song...

In a sense, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is getting what he wanted. Amodei has long argued that AI is becoming dangerously powerful — and thus, that regulatory restrictions on the technology are urge...

A new, bipartisan idea is taking Washington by storm: collective ownership of the means of production.  Sort of, anyway. Last Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he would soon be meeting ...

Humanity may be scrolling its way out of existence.  Across the globe, fertility rates are plummeting. In 2023, the average number of births per woman worldwide fell beneath 2.1 — the minimum level...