Elon Musk

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.

On Walter Isaacson’s biographical project.

The cosmic delusions of Elon Musk and Wernher von Braun.

Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.

This isn’t the first effort by a president’s appointee to streamline government.

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

DOGE's seizure of government databases is not just an act of bureaucratic reorganization. It is an act of constitutional restructuring.

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and Latin American dictatorship.

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

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.

Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?

Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.

For the entire 20th century, it had felt like telepathy was just around the corner. Why is that especially true now?

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

America’s utopian communities have traditionally promoted egalitarianism and alternatives to capitalism. Company towns do the opposite.

How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian second term has led critics to describe him as a fascist in the mold of Adolf Hitler.