Eric Levitz

Elon Musk might be the most powerful man in America. Donald Trump has put his patron in charge of the federal bureaucracy, allowing Musk to tailor the administrative state to his whims, which are far-reaching and almost certainly unconstitutional. The […]

Donald Trump did not campaign on a promise to end the Pentagon’s celebration of Black History Month. Nor did the Republican air advertisements pledging to remove displays honoring nonwhite and female scientists from the National Science Foundation. And no Trump

On New Year’s Eve, America’s most prominent nativist declared that the nation needs more immigrants. “We need competent people, we need smart people coming into our country,” President-elect Donald Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, “we need a lot

Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. This week’s installment of the long-running saga, “House Republicans cannot govern,” will soon be forgotten. Elon Musk’s decision to blow up a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded

It’s likely that no social issue has cost Democrats more votes in recent years than immigration. The Biden-Harris administration presided over America’s largest surge of new arrivals since 1850 according to data from the Census Bureau and Congressional Budget Office.

Democrats have lost ground with the working class for a simple reason: They became “globalist shills.” Under Bill Clinton’s leadership, the party enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and normalized trade relations with China, policies that had devastating

In November, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) issued a dire warning: One of America’s largest insurance companies — Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield — had just “unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the

Recently, I argued that progressives were wrong to see Kamala Harris’s defeat as proof that Democrats have little to gain from moderation. Osita Nwanevu, a contributor to the New Republic and author of the forthcoming book The Right of the

President Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter Biden for all crimes — known and unknown — that his son committed over the past 11 years. This is not a great look for a man who’s decried President-elect Donald Trump’s attacks on

Whenever Democrats lose an election, a debate inevitably ensues over whether they were done in by an unenthused base or an alienated swing electorate. No matter how many times this drama gets restaged, the parts and scripts remain largely the