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October 24, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Sean Duffy Is Pissing Off All of Trumpworld With His Feud With Musk
“Sean has overplayed his hand,” one person said of the transportation secretary.
October 1, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Sure Picked Some Convenient Projects to Exclude From Shutdown
Donald Trump declared that workers on some of his pet projects were essential.
July 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Melts Down Over Elon Musk’s Newest Political Endeavor
Donald Trump is fuming at his former First Buddy.
June 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Yanks SpaceX Program After Trump Threatens to Cut Contracts
Elon Musk’s breakup with Donald Trump somehow got more dramatic.
June 3, 2025
Kate Aronoff
Trump Is Going to Raise Your Insurance Premiums
To model risk, insurance companies rely on climate data gathered by the federal government. The Trump administration is decimating the agencies collecting it. Guess who will pay?
May 2, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk Is Poised to Get Another Huge Payday From the Government
Cuts to NASA mean that Musk’s SpaceX company is well positioned to reap in a billion dollars—at least—in government contracts.
February 13, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk’s DOGE Minions Have Found Their New Target: NASA
Conflict of interest, much?
January 28, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Key Programs Trump’s Budget Freeze Just Wrecked
Donald Trump ordered a widespread pause on federal grans and loans.
December 4, 2024
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Gives Elon Musk’s Buddy Total Control Over NASA
Donald Trump’s pick for NASA head, billionaire Jared Isaacman, should worry anyone who cares about space.
June 28, 2024
Timothy Noah
Did I Mention an Asteroid May Kill You?
As two of these killers pass near the Earth, let’s ponder an underappreciated global threat.
April 29, 2021
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Ganesh Sitaraman
The Coming Revolution in the American Economy
In the Biden era, the Reaganite consensus is finally breaking down.
April 19, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Elon Musk Wants to Move Fast and Break Space
SpaceX’s Starlink project would add thousands of satellites to a very crowded sky.
December 3, 2020
Magazine
Clive Thompson
Monetizing the Final Frontier
The strange new push for space privatization
May 10, 2018
Fran Quigley
Building a NASA for Prescription Drugs
A bold solution to America's soaring drug prices
January 18, 2018
Emily Atkin
Why is Trump censoring some agencies’ climate science, but not others’?
November 1, 2017
Emily Atkin
Republican senator: NASA disputes climate consensus. NASA: No we don’t.
October 30, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s Gang of Climate Deniers Has Grown Into an Army
He keeps picking deniers for top government positions: NASA might soon be run by a GOP congressman who blames global warming on the sun.
August 21, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s budget cuts could mess up your next solar eclipse viewing.
March 16, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s budget is a middle finger to science.
February 22, 2017
Emily Atkin
Tired of Earth? Well, NASA has some good news.
Tired of living on this planet? Well, NASA has some good news
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