Jon Levine

About the Columnist

Jon Levine is a political reporter for the Sunday New York Post. His work covers city, state and national politics. He has worked on significant continuing stories and investigations, including Hunter Biden and the 2020 presidential election. A native New Yorker, he previously worked as a media reporter for TheWrap and Mediaite. His work has been featured on CNN.com, The Atlantic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. When he’s not working, he’s thinking about work.

The Archive

U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman speaking at SUNY Westchester Community College in a suit and tie

Socialists are on both offense and defense in attempt take NY primaries

June 22, 2024 | 9:15am

New York's red menace is looking to expand their reach across the five boroughs.

composite image: upper left, husary at a protest wearing a green baseball cap, black t-shirt, and a white poster with a large red center; lower left, the post's front page of husary, masked and in a yellow shirt, on the nyc subway with the headlines "mask slips"; left, christopher husary in his room wearing a dark baseball cap and with mustache and bit of a beard

Masked anti-Israel protester who accosted Jewish man on NYC subway revealed

June 22, 2024 | 8:42am

He made no bones about his twisted allegiances Friday when confronted by The Post at his family's five bedroom home in the San Francisco suburb of Haywood.

Collage of Joe Biden and past debate opponents

Joe Biden's short temper, cognitive issues can be exploited by Trump in debate, former opponents say

June 22, 2024 | 8:19am

The June 27 event will have commercial breaks, Robert F. Kennedy won't be there — and Trump will have the last word.

Biden unveils new ad touting his support for gun control after SCOTUS ruling on bump stocks, Hunter's conviction

June 15, 2024 | 5:19pm

President Biden pulled the trigger on a new 30-second ad touting his support for gun control — just days after first son Hunter Biden was convicted on felony gun charges.

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Squad member Cori Bush claimed she performed miracles, cured tumors in autobiography

June 15, 2024 | 12:37pm

House squad member Rep. Cori Bush performed multiple miracles as a religious faith healer, according to her autobiography.

Colin Huang and Tom Cotton, men in suits, holding a microphone

Temu parent company led by top former Chinese Communist officials

June 15, 2024 | 12:23pm

Temu, a Chinese competitor to Amazon, has made aggressive inroads into the United States

Here's who's leading Trump's VP contender pack — for a surprising reason: insiders

June 15, 2024 | 11:42am

Trump -- who would be a lame duck on day one of a new term -- is nervous about a vice president launching their own 2028 campaign the minute they come...

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Hunter Biden felony gun conviction raises stakes at tax-fraud trial

June 15, 2024 | 11:25am

Hunter Biden's conviction on felony gun charges increases the likelihood he could face stiffer penalties at his September tax-evasion, an expert told The Post.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., in a suit, holding a phone in the U.S. Capitol before being censured by the House on December 7, 2023.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman mocked after attacking NY Post: 'Odor of desperation'

June 15, 2024 | 9:58am

Socialist Rep. Jamaal Bowman ripped The New York Post on X after the city's paper of record endorsed his primary opponent, Westchester County Executive George Latimer.

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President Biden expected to rake in $28 million from star-studded LA fundraiser

June 15, 2024 | 9:55am

The cash exceeds the $25 million Team Biden took in during a similar blowout event in March with former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton at Radio City...

A group of men in military uniforms with Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel

CNN takes heat for saying Israeli hostages were 'released'

June 8, 2024 | 3:39pm

Yaari Cohen, an Israeli student called the chyron "disgusting, adding that the network "should be ashamed."

Israeli commander killed in daring Gaza raid that brought 4 hostages home

June 8, 2024 | 2:03pm

Zamora lived in the village of Sde David, near the Israeli city of Sderot — less than 15 miles from the Gaza border.

1987 scene of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's bomb explosion behind a computer store in Salt Lake City

Read Unabomber's never-before-seen letter to a Post reporter

June 8, 2024 | 12:08pm

A never-before-seen missive from unabomber Ted Kaczynski surfaced in Ardsley, New York this week after being mined from the childhood bedroom of Post reporter Jon Levine — me.

Pro-Palestinian activists from local and national organizations form a red line across the front of the White House on June 8, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters descend upon White House

June 8, 2024 | 11:57am

The White House boosted security and put up anti-scaling fencing ahead of a massive anti-Israel protest planned for Saturday.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump waving to the crowd during halftime at the Palmetto Bowl in Columbia, South Carolina on November 25, 2023

GOP planning convention 'contingencies' in case Trump is jailed during nomination: 'Ready for anything'

June 8, 2024 | 8:53am

Trump will be sentenced by in New York City on July 11 after he was convicted of 34 felony counts stemming from hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Israel's war in Gaza arrives in Fire Island

June 8, 2024 | 8:53am

They're here, they're queer — and they love Hamas.

Four Israeli hostages rescued during 'complex' raid in central Gaza

June 8, 2024 | 7:37am

The hostages were rescued during a "complex" operation at two locations in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

Political commentator fired from The Hill days after rolling her eyes at sister of Oct. 7 hostage during interview

June 6, 2024 | 7:17pm

Gray said she had no additional comment when reached by The Post Thursday evening.

Hunter Biden owes ex-wife $2.9M in alimony and other debts as she is set to testify in gun, tax evasion trials

June 1, 2024 | 4:53pm

The first son is scheduled to go on trial for alleged tax crimes in September, another federal trial for illegal gun possession is expected to open next week — Buhle...

U.S. President Joe Biden in a suit and tie, delivering remarks on the Middle East at the State Dining Room in the White House on May 31, 2024

Biden hemorrhaging support from voters without a college degree: poll

June 1, 2024 | 12:18pm

The poll was taken before Trump's was found guilty of falsifying business records in his Manhattan criminal trial on Thursday.