Voters are right to want a less bloated and wasteful government. But Elon Musk’s plan will fail because the most inefficient parts lie outside it.
Elon Musk
Posted inPolitics
ByteDance and Trump’s Perplexing TikTok Pirouette
Trump was for a TikTok ban until he wasn’t. Why does the 47th president have a different position than the 45th, and how might the Roberts Court rule on the popular platform?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Musk and Ramaswamy’s DOGE Project to Eviscerate the Federal Government is a Legal Train Wreck
The half-truths and lies in their “Department of Government Efficiency” blueprint for kneecapping the administrative state begin to expose the plan’s vulnerabilities.
Posted inPolitics
The Media Threat We Face and the Media Revolution We Need
The problem isn’t just disinformation or right-wing media, explains a former Democratic member of Congress, but how media reaches us.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Trump Isn’t Even Pretending He Would Fight Corporate Power
The former president is shamelessly offering plutocrats like Elon Musk political favors for their support—and no longer promising to take on monopolists.
Posted inNewsletter
Trump’s Ground Operation Is Failing to Launch
Also, a reflection on the career of Howard Baker and a look at this election’s polling gender gap—all in the August 15, 2024 newsletter.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will the Supreme Court Kill the National Labor Relations Board?
As Starbucks—and Elon Musk’s SpaceX—take aim at the New Deal-era body, the Roberts Court could severely curtail the right of workers to organize. Here’s how.
Posted inBooks
The Truth About Lies
Campaign disinformation is ubiquitous and hard to fight. But it mostly feeds the fever swamps and seldom changes election results.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Elon Musk’s War on the New Deal—and Democracy
The South African-born mogul is now trying to gut the 89-year-old National Labor Relations Board.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Home Is Where the Work Is
When I worked at the Washington Monthly in the 1980s, the most notable aspect of the office, aside from its shabbiness, was the almost total physical absence of the boss, founder and editor in chief Charles Peters. Pioneering in so many ways—his column, “Tilting at Windmills,” a collection of delightful, insightful, counter-conventional mini-essays, has often […]
