Eric Levitz

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...

The Trump administration announced last Friday that US visa holders who want a green card must first return to their home countries and apply from there, “except in extraordinary circumstances.” On...

President Donald Trump has put the US economy through the wringer.  Since taking office, he has: And yet, the American economy keeps trudging forward like a gut-shot zombie, damaged but undeterred ...

In any given week, more than a billion people now look to chatbots for information and advice — as well as robo-plagiarism, erotica, and myriad other services. ChatGPT alone boasts 900 million week...

The only good data center is a canceled data center. Or so a growing number of Americans seem to feel.  Throughout the United States, citizens are mobilizing against the construction of new data ce...

For years, many Democrats have lamented the fact that some workers at highly profitable corporations — from Amazon to Walmart to McDonald’s — receive Medicaid benefits.  Their reasoning isn’t hard ...

Hasan Piker is exceptionally good at ranting about politics while playing video games. In the late 20th century, this would have made him a fun (if exhausting) hang. In today’s era, it has rendered...