Elon Musk

Video: How Big Tech is reviving colonialism

By Erik English | Disruptive Technologies

Cover to the propaganda comic book "Is This Tomorrow," published in 1947, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The consequences of the Trump administration’s hostile empathy

By Erik English | Analysis

US President Donald Trump listens to US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speak about the Golden Dome missile defense shield in the Oval Office on May 20. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The 15-minute interview: Joe Cirincione on Golden Dome and the long-running US missile defense debacle

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The real ‘Great Replacement’

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Columnists, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

We’re back: How tuberculosis is set to surge globally once again

By Erik English | Biosecurity

Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth

By Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith | Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics, Technology and Security

INTERVIEW: Staring into the DOGE abyss with WIRED’s Tim Marchman

By Thomas Gaulkin | Interviews

A protester near the Trinity nuclear test site. Legislation to extend and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was recently reintroduced in the US Senate after stalling in the House late im 2024. (Credit: Jonny Coker / KRWG)

The 15-minute interview: Sen. Ben Ray Luján on the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act

By John Mecklin | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste

For this French senator, Trump is a traitor—and Europe is now alone

By François Diaz-Maurin | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, accompanied by President Donald Trump and his son X Musk, speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11. The executive order implements the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) "workforce optimization initiative," which, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Trump, Musk, and DOGE are undermining US intelligence and national security

By Thomas Fingar | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

Protesters demonstrating in support of USAID on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 in Washington, DC.

How the shutdown of USAID will hurt Americans and empower foreign adversaries

By Erik English | Analysis

Laptop open to Department of the Treasury page with 404 error

Why DOGE’s meddling at Treasury could have catastrophic consequences for the US economy

By Liz Fong-Jones | Disruptive Technologies