


Elon Musk’s failure in government
His legacy will be to make reform even harder
WHEN DONALD TRUMP announced last November that Elon Musk would be heading a government-efficiency initiative, many of his fellow magnates were delighted. The idea, wrote Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, was “one of the greatest things I’ve ever read.” Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, wrote his own three-step guide to how DOGE, as it became known, could influence government policy. Even Bernie Sanders, a left-wing senator, tweeted hedged support, saying that Mr Musk was “right”, pointing to waste and fraud in the defence budget.
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The fantastical world of Republican economic thinking
The elites of the American right cannot reconcile the inconsistencies in their policy platform

Why stricter voting laws no longer help Republicans
The party is pushing tougher requirements anyway

Why the president must not be lexicographer-in-chief
Who decides what legal terms mean? If it is Donald Trump, God help America
America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
A visit to the second biggest, in Georgia, shows what that looks like
Demand for American degrees is sinking
Trump’s war on universities is driving talent away
Why would Texas Republicans object to conservative, pro-family developers?
Because they’re Muslim, of course