He came to America in 1911 but returned to Russia in the early 1920s to cover the Civil War.
In Boston he covered the the trial of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti trials. He formed the Citizens National Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti.
In the spring of 1939, Levine collaborated with the Soviet intelligence agency defector, Walter Krivitsky, for a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, exposing the horrors of Stalin's regime.
Levine edited the anticommunist magazine Plain Talk from 1946 until 1950 but did not join The Freeman, opting for a stint with Radio Free Europe in West Germany instead.