Andrew Prokop

As Elon Musk has rampaged around the federal government for four weeks, canceling contracts and dismantling whole departments, he’s claimed all the actions of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were “maximally transparent.” Yet there’s been nothing transparent about the […]

President Donald Trump wants larger nonprofits and academic institutions investigated for the “egregious” use of DEI. Elon Musk is trying to purge the federal workforce, and accusing nonprofits and the media of corruption in conspiratorial and factually inaccurate ways. Marc

A bitter public feud split the MAGA movement over the holidays, as supporters of high-skilled legal immigration like Elon Musk argued vociferously (and sometimes profanely) with the right’s immigration critics over the topic of H-1B visas. Musk, like many tech

Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. President-elect Donald Trump didn’t even wait to start his second term before throwing Congress into chaos, sinking a bipartisan spending deal and making his own demands as a government

What ails the Democratic Party? Since Kamala Harris’s defeat, several Democrats and center-left commentators have pointed the finger at one culprit: “the groups.” Specifically, they claim, progressive interest and activist groups have both moved too far left and grown far

There’s a pretty widespread consensus about which issue was most responsible for Kamala Harris’s defeat: inflation. There’s much less consensus on what, if anything, Democrats could have done differently about it. Polls have been clear for years that voters were

With President-elect Donald Trump’s latest slate of extreme or controversial nominees — Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and

Democrats have faced a bitterly disappointing defeat, and the debate is on about why that happened. Amid the opportunistic finger-pointing and evidence-free assertions that Vice President Kamala Harris could have won if only she had done this or that, there

Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member today. Kamala Harris lost the presidential election and Democrats lost control of the Senate. But when you zoom in on the details of that result, there’s a striking pattern: Democratic

Fearless journalism needs your support now more than ever. Become a Vox Member today. Four years after Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election and left office in disgrace, the American people returned him to power in the 2024