Eric Levitz

Joe Biden lost it before he even won the presidency. This is the most notable revelation in Original Sin, a new book-length exposé of the Biden White House by Axios’s Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper. Thompson and Tapper mostly […]

Over the course of April, President Donald Trump imposed large tariffs on goods from every country in the world, pushing America’s average levy on imports to its highest level in roughly a century. In April, the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Many liberals would like the Democratic Party to put climate change at the center of its messaging and policy agenda. They would also like Democrats to win more elections. In a recent column in the Washington Post, former Washington governor

When a Democrat contemplates their nation’s biggest problems today, minimum lot sizes in suburban housing codes probably don’t rank very high on the list. After all, the US president is a reality star turned insurrectionist, who’s ordering investigations of his

Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming into view. The most authoritative election analyses draw on a variety of different

Donald Trump has a gift for inheriting valuable things. And the economy of January 2025 was no exception. When the president took office, stock values were hitting record highs, unemployment was hovering near historic lows, and consumer confidence was stable.

Donald Trump just imposed a 25 percent tariff on virtually all goods produced by America’s two largest trading partners — Canada and Mexico. He simultaneously established a 20 percent across-the-board tariff on Chinese goods. As a result, America’s average tariff

The government produces many of America’s most important economic indicators. And that data influences the media’s coverage of the economy, which likely colors voters’ views of the president. These facts have long led partisans to fear presidential manipulation of economic

Donald Trump scolded the president of Ukraine Friday afternoon for expressing excessive “hatred” for Vladimir Putin and inadequate gratitude for the United States. This extraordinary dustup came at the tail end of a press conference featuring President Trump, Ukrainian President

The Democrats are historically unpopular, receiving exceptionally low marks from both the general public and their own voters. Yet the party is on track to retake the House come 2026. In Gallup’s most recent poll, only 38 percent of Americans