Eric Levitz

New York

Senior Correspondent, Politics at Vox

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Articles

US war with Iran: 3 ways Americans could pay for Trump’s strikes

4 days ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

President Donald Trump has framed his strikes on Iran as a costless triumph. The president is not asking Americans to accept sacrifices in service of destroying the Iranian nuclear program — only to applaud his already successful destruction of it. “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump declared Saturday night. “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
The top priority of progressive politics may be slipping out of reach forever

1 week ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

Four years ago, America was on the cusp of the largest expansion of its welfare state since the 1960s. Under Joe Biden in 2021, House Democrats passed legislation that would have established a monthly child allowance for most families, an expansion of Medicaid’s elder care services, federal child care subsidies, universal prekindergarten, and a paid family leave program, among other new social benefits. But that bill failed — and then, so did Biden’s presidency.
Why the right is rushing to ban lab grown meat that could save tens of billions of animals every year

2 weeks ago | geneticliteracyproject.org | Eric Levitz

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LA protests: Why Trump escalated ICE’s crackdown on immigrants

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

In recent days, mass protests in Los Angeles have dominated the headlines. Images of demonstrators facing off with National Guard members and flaming cars have filled the news. The primary cause of this unrest has been less visible, but no less disorderly or disruptive. Behind the tensions in LA lies a radical escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
Opinion: 3 takeaways from the most authoritative autopsy of the 2024 election yet

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Eric Levitz

It’s been more than six months, but Democrats are still picking over the 2024 election. The latest autopsy comes courtesy of Catalist, a Democratic data firm with a widely coveted voter database. Their entire report is worth reading, but I’d like to spotlight three takeaways that have especially significant implications for Democratic strategy going forward. First, Democrats did not lose because they failed to turn out the progressive base.
Americans are reading less. Is that poisoning our politics?

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

If you aren’t feeling the itch yet, you will soon. It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph. But before long, a little voice in your head will whisper, “Click away for just a second” — just long enough to take a quick glance at your email or Instagram feed or group chat or 401(k) or chatbot’s answer to “how to tell if a mole is cancerous” or Amazon results for “joint-smoking garden gnomes.”At least, this will happen if you’re anything like myself.
Democrats don’t need to choose between populism and abundance liberalism

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

In the months since Kamala Harris’s defeat, Democrats have debated the party’s political and policy mistakes. This argument has centered in part on (Vox co-founder) Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestselling book, Abundance. Those political columnists argue that Democrats have failed to deliver material plenty: Blue states don’t provide their residents with adequate housing, and federal Democrats have struggled to build anything on time and budget.
Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it

4 weeks ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

Conservatives want the government to dictate what you can and cannot eat. Or so Republican policymaking increasingly suggests. Earlier this month, Montana and Nebraska became the latest US states to ban lab-grown meat (also known as “cellular meat” or “cultivated meat”). Unlike plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger, lab-grown meat consists of actual animal tissue, but made without slaughtering animals.
Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Eric Levitz

Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try itWhen animal cruelty trumps capitalism. Conservatives want the government to dictate what you can and cannot eat. Or so Republican policymaking increasingly suggests. Earlier this month, Montana and Nebraska became the latest US states to ban lab-grown meat (also known as “cellular meat” or …
3 takeaways from the most authoritative autopsy of the 2024 election yet

1 month ago | vox.com | Eric Levitz

It’s been more than six months, but Democrats are still picking over the cold, dead body of the 2024 election. The latest autopsy comes courtesy of Catalist, a Democratic data firm with a widely coveted voter database. By now, you may feel that you know more about how Democrats lost last year than you ever wished to know. Which would be understandable.