This is really important. You can argue (if you want) that Kirk's alleged killer probably had syncretic political views, or that things are still "unclear." You cannot argue there is any affirmative evidence that he was a right-winger. This is not an ideological assertion. It is a statement of fact.

Trump is waging a war on American science and innovation. His $100,000 fee on H-1B visas will chase top researchers to other rich countries. In the long-term, our living standards will likely be lower as a result www.vox.com/politics/462...

The moment we deem ourselves immune to ideological chauvinism and unreason, we become more vulnerable to both. www.vox.com/politics/462...

Few people still need to hear this but: The Trump administration wants you to say that Charlie Kirk's killer was far-right www.vox.com/politics/462...

Joe Biden pressured social media companies to suppress anti-vax advocacy during the COVID pandemic. That raised legitimate free speech concerns. But Trump's attack on the First Amendment is vastly more egregious and profound. Conservatives shouldn't pretend otherwise www.vox.com/politics/462...

Trump's FCC isn't just threatening to take regulatory action against broadcasters who air criticism of the president. It has already done so. www.vox.com/politics/462...

Today would be a good day to support independent media -- ideally, the company that employs me -- but failing that, another of your choice www.vox.com/support-now

Conservatives have decided to honor Charlie Kirk's memory by embracing woke safety-ism www.vox.com/politics/461...

The right's response to Charlie Kirk's murder is nightmarishly Orwellian. Conservatives are signaling that the truth will be no obstacle to the sating of their bloodlust, nor to the exploitation of tragedy for partisan gain. www.vox.com/politics/461...

This man fomented an insurrection, then bestowed pardons and military honors on its perpetrators. Here, he praises "free speech," then attributes all political violence to his ideological foes and vows to crack down on their organizations. We're living in an Orwellian nightmare.

1) I wrote about the Democrats' "shutdown" debate. TLDR: A government shutdown aimed at imposing constraints on Trump's authoritarianism will fail. But Democrats should maybe do one, anyway. www.vox.com/politics/460...

Basically, I think @ericlevitz.bsky.social is right here in that Dems basically need to focus less on trying to lean into Abundance as a messaging theme and just hammer the left-populist messages that work *along* with doing good policy that works www.vox.com/politics/415...

I think @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is a great writer. I'm frequently jealous of his work and recommend purchasing his newsletter/book. But I also very strongly disagreed with his recent polemic against polling and wrote about why www.vox.com/politics/458...

1) The US economy is bending -- but not yet breaking -- beneath the weight of Trump's rightwing nationalism. The president's restrictive trade and immigration policies are largely responsible for the slowdown in economic growth. www.vox.com/politics/422...

The Democrats are historically unpopular. Wrote up 5 reasons to think they'll be OK anyway, and two to think the party is cooked www.vox.com/politics/421...

Donald Trump's official line on the Epstein case is that: 1) A vast Democratic conspiracy worked for years to forge documents implicating its enemies in child sex abuse. 2) He can't understand why his supporters would find that interesting. www.vox.com/politics/420...

The Trump administration's handling of the Epstein case is indisputably scandalous. If nothing else, it demonstrates the White House's flagrant dishonesty and staggering incompetence www.vox.com/politics/420...

Donald Trump broke the oldest rule of politics: If you're going to publicly acknowledge that your child sex trafficker friend likes women "on the younger side," don't *also* coyly reference a "wonderful secret" in your letters to him. www.vox.com/politics/420...

@ericlevitz.bsky.social did the math and no there are not 35m people just sitting around on Medicaid -- www.vox.com/politics/419...

The Trump administration wants to mass deport farmworkers, then send Medicaid recipients to the countryside www.vox.com/politics/419...

Trump's trade, mass deportation, and Medicaid agendas are all premised on the same wild lie www.vox.com/politics/419...

Wrote about the president's trade policy www.vox.com/politics/419...

In theory, the GOP sees environmental harm as an acceptable cost of making goods cheap and American industries competitive. In reality, the GOP is acting as though ecological destruction is an end in itself -- one worth sacrificing affordability and competitiveness to www.vox.com/politics/418...

My essay on how the decline of deep reading is (arguably) reshaping our consciousness, culture, and politics is out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/politics/414...

I wrote about what Democrats can (and can’t) learn from Mamdani’s stunning triumph Tuesday. One potential lesson: Portraying your opponent as anti-Israel isn’t a surefire winner in Democratic primaries anymore www.vox.com/politics/417...

Four years ago, America was on the cusp of the largest welfare state expansion since LBJ. Now, we're on the brink of the largest cut to public health insurance ever. And the outlook for growing the safety net in the future looks increasingly grim. I wrote about why www.vox.com/politics/417...

The root cause of Trump's radical new ICE policy is very dumb Trump successfully brought border crossings to a halt. But this caused his deportation numbers to fall below Biden's. So ICE is terrorizing longtime US residents until Trump can say he's got the bigger number www.vox.com/politics/416...

"Deep literacy encourages abstract thought. But abstractions can be morally beneficent or abominable, illuminating or obfuscatory." —@ericlevitz.bsky.social‬ for ‪@vox.com‬ www.vox.com/politics/414...

Americans are reading less. And even avid readers now struggle to concentrate on longform texts. Some analysts argue that this decline in "deep literacy" is poisoning our politics. I explored that theory (and my own brain rot) in a long piece you probably won't read www.vox.com/politics/414...

Democrats don't need to choose between making it easier to build stuff and soaking the rich. Abundance liberalism is compatible with economic populism -- if, by the latter, we mean a politics that redistributes income/power from the few to the many. www.vox.com/politics/415...

The Trump administration is systematically undermining American innovation -- gutting funding for scientific research and energy development, while chasing scientific talent from the country www.vox.com/technology/4...

This just isn't true. Far-right demographic panic definitely drives some natalist advocacy. But global fertility is on the cusp of falling below replacement. Absent major gains in automation, this is going to be a major source of economic strain during our lifetimes.

Some Dems say that tariffs are a sound tool for stopping firms from exploiting cheap labor abroad But if you impose tariffs on poor nations - w/o simultaneously offering an alternative development path - you just immiserate them (while lowering real wages in America too) www.vox.com/politics/407...

Democrats can just say that the tariffs are bad www.vox.com/politics/407...

This is not an excerpt from Klein and Thompson's book. And in that book, they express support for increasing redistribution multiple times, including by socializing the future profits of AI. It is hard to make the case against zoning reform without lying. But that is not an excuse for doing so.

A new study suggested that moderation may actually *hurt* Dems by depressing turnout. It got written up by the Times. But its results have been misrepresented. The paper's actual data shows that moderation helps Dems with swing voters and doesn't seem to impact turnout www.vox.com/politics/406...

Critics of "abundance liberalism" accuse it of sacrificing the interests of working-class people to the pursuit of "growth at all costs." In truth, for decades, Democrats have put the legacy of *anti-growth* environmentalism above working-class interests www.vox.com/politics/405...

I think this captures the intersection of those topics best whether someone reads books, informs themselves about the world, pays attention to current events, is a crucial indicator of political alignment and that is just a really fuckin weird new thing for Democrats to sort out

this interview is excellent and it worries me that bsky political discourse is getting mad about it www.vox.com/politics/403...

Intuitively, if you have high union entry costs, you will have strong unions only in bottleneck sectors, and existing unions will encourage these bottlenecks to persist without countervailing power from other sections of labor.

The supply side liberal crew, who I mostly agree with, should support sectoral bargaining to reduce labor costs overall and rebalance them toward higher productivity sectors.

Some abundance-oriented intellectuals would disagree, but my read on the abundance school’s greater significance is as an attempt to recover elements of the New Deal’s political economy and move past the New Left/degrowther instincts that still have too much influence over contemporary liberalism.

1) I spoke with @davidshor about his autopsy of the 2024 campaign. Based on voter file data, 26 million voter interviews, and precinct returns, he reaches a few conclusions. One is that if all registered voters had turned out, Trump would have won a landslide: www.vox.com/politics/403...

I had a great conversation with the great @ericlevitz.bsky.social about our current political predicament. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNE...

50 Days of Trump 2.0 | @ericlevitz.bsky.social of @vox.com and @robertwrighter.bsky.social discuss Elon’s ups and downs (and his darkly weird grandfather); tariff chaos; worthwhile Canadian backlash; free speech threats; oligarchic milestones; and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNE...

1) Economic growth is slowing. So the Trump administration wants to redefine "economic growth" -- by removing government production from GDP. This is a very dumb and ominous development. www.vox.com/politics/402...

Trump's stated reasons for upending trade on the North American continent keep changing. None make any sense. www.vox.com/politics/402...

Trump doesn't seem to know why he just launched a giant trade war www.vox.com/politics/402...

Ukraine is not well positioned to win a war of attrition. Peace will require a ceasefire in which it makes some territorial concessions. But the U.S. president signaling indifference to Ukraine's fate makes such a ceasefire *less* likely. www.vox.com/politics/402...

To understand the Trump administration's feud with Zelensky, it's helpful to note that a segment of the American right is unabashedly pro-Putin, and has been for over a decade www.vox.com/politics/402...