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When New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday, the same day the New York City budget was unveiled, that she was providing $4 billion from the state to help close the city’s budget gap,...

When Barbara Feuerstein, seventy-two, saw a Facebook ad offering a free blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, she jumped at the opportunity. The ad, placed by a research center, offered the test, recently cleared by the...

Amid a multimillion-dollar lobbying and campaign-finance blitz by major financial asset managers, President Donald Trump has introduced a new plan pushing Americans to invest their retirement dollars in Wall Street. Instead of shoring up the...

“In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make,” Ida Tarbell wrote in her autobiography. “He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy...

Earlier this month, the New Yorker published a mesmerizing if bleak article about the “Disney adult” — that distinct American subspecies of grown man or woman who is stuck in Peter Pan consumer mode, who trembles...

On April 16, news broke that Meta had cut ties with its contractor in Kenya, Sama, ending a long-standing outsourcing arrangement it had for content moderation and artificial intelligence training. The decision followed nearly eighteen...

After the Lever reported last month that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcers awarded a defense vendor a $12 million contract to map out immigrants’ routines and real-time locations, the company, Edge Ops LLC, overhauled its...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Mamdani and the Antisemites.” The next day, an article published in the conservative National Review called the mayor’s behavior “shameful.” The day after that, Republican...

The Democratic establishment and the crypto industry are intervening in a competitive Maryland Democratic primary to back a lobbyist who has been working for the tech giant Oracle while simultaneously serving as a state lawmaker.According...

Elon Musk needs no introduction. He is one of the leading capitalists of our time. Unlike many in tech, he gets down and dirty with the physical world (or rather, his employees do), building cars...

Almost four years after taking power, Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia is still Italy’s largest party. Yet in recent months, the polling lead for Meloni’s right-wing coalition has been steadily eroded — and political setbacks have now...

This election cycle, fresh off Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral race, the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is running its largest-ever slate of legislative insurgents. But DSA chapters in...