wired politics lab
DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up
It’s April, and the US is experiencing a self-inflicted trade war and a constitutional crisis over immigration. It’s a lot. ...
The Trump Administration Is Turning Science Against Itself
The nonsense jujitsu is absurd, but is it sincere? In some cases, it’s hard to say. In others it seems ...
The Blunt Force Trauma of the Trump Tariffs
There are situations in which tariffs are a useful tool to address a trade deficit, or to protect key sectors ...
We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections
Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been everywhere in ...
Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Chosen Chaos
Two months into the second Trump administration, the United States is in pure chaos mode. Tens of thousands of workers ...
The United States of Elon Musk Inc.
Where do Elon Musk’s business interests end and Donald Trump’s political interests begin? Trick question—they’re one and the same. How ...
DOGE Is the Deep State
(Small point of order: Musk is both head of DOGE and not head of DOGE, depending on who you ask ...
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
Speaking of which, let’s not forget that DOGE has fired people working to prevent bird flu and to safeguard the ...
The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Not only does DOGE not seem to understand this, it has given no indication that it wants to understand. These ...
DOGE’s Race to the Bottom
The thing about the takeover of key US government institutions by the world’s richest man and his strike force of ...
