We explore Musk’s agenda and ideology. By Jonathan Mahler I’m a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Over the course of the 2024 presidential campaign, Elon Musk went from dark-money donor to high-profile surrogate to unofficial chief of staff.

Musk wants to publicly tangle with the regulator that has the most muscle to flex over his space business. Will his strategy work?

Brendan Carr, a Republican who Trump first put on the commission in 2017, has emerged in recent years as a vocal defender of Musk and his companies.

X owner and adviser Boris Epshteyn reportedly came to blows over how much influence each exerts on president-elect’s choices for top administration jobs

Those who worked under Musk say his past efforts to micromanage in the private sector have yielded mixed results. Elon Musk has big plans for his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once Donald Trump takes the White House in January.

After spending more than a hundred million dollars to help Trump get elected, Musk stands to earn a lot more. On Wednesday, during a gathering at Mar-a-Lago attended by some of Donald Trump ’s closest associates,