Marty Levine

Marty Levine June 12, 2025 Tuesday night saw mass protests against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown spread across the country. Here’s how Block Club Chicago described the scene in my...

Marty Levine June 4, 2025 For four weeks, while we traveled across Southeast Asia, I was able to put aside some of the political turmoil in our country. But,...

  Marty Levine May 27, 2025 I just returned from four weeks in Southeast Asia, visiting Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. This was a trip I had wanted to...

Marty Levine April 5, 2024 Almost 6 months have passed since Hamas forces invaded Israel, killed about 1,200 people, and took hundreds more as hostages.  I recognize that on...

Marty Levine February 25, 2024 In 2016 many of us were shocked when Donald Trump won the Presidential election.  How could this egomaniacal, reality show host, a man with...

Marty Levine January 14, 2023 The rate of inflation has come down. Unemployment remains at historically low levels. We keep adding hundreds of thousands of new jobs every month....

Marty Levine December 14, 2023 Last week, three university presidents became the latest sacrificial offerings on the altar of the temple of the “Israel is ALWAYS right” movement. A...

Marty Levine November 29, 2023 My struggle with the rampant conflation of protesting Israel’s actions, policies, and even its very existence as a Jewish state with antisemitism continues. Equally...

Marty Levine November 22, 2023 Is it antisemitic to reject someone’s beliefs and hurt their feeling? Is it antisemitic to speak about your truth but make someone else uncomfortable...

Marty Levine November 17, 2023 A few days ago, I wrote of my worry that it we were reaching a point of no return. The combination of an economy...