Elon Musk

“It’s ironic that, as a pro-democracy and pro-climate group, we’re protesting against electric cars,” one activist said. “But you cannot sacrifice our democracy for one piece of the thing.”

Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda.

Her work was so quiet and fundamental—to academia and industry, all over the world—that she believed her job would be safe.

The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

A day in the life of a claims rep for America’s largest government program.

Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.

Zain Shirazi, inspired by his family’s experience of post-9/11 racism, has been fighting workplace harassment for the federal government. The Trump Administration fired him.

The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.

Silicon Valley has struggled to measure employees’ effectiveness. So how can Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency expect to fix the federal government?

Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era.

How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Elon Musk’s campaign to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will end up hurting the very people Donald Trump promised to safeguard.

Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.

The nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.

Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department.

The new Administration’s move to shutter U.S.A.I.D. has halted vital aid programs around the world and left thousands of development workers in a state of limbo.

The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.

Representing Silicon Valley in Congress, Khanna knows tech moguls—and knows how dangerous they are. “Some of them,” he tells David Remnick, “think they’re Nietzsche’s Superman.”

The world’s richest man has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took place more than a decade ago.