With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...

Last week, I wrote about how the Trump administration has replaced any sort of concept of governance with governance-by-trolling—a government optimized purely for making a huge segment of the country angry while the base cheers them on. The entire apparatus of federal power has been repurposed into a machine for generating engagement through cruelty, with no actual governing philosophy beyond "own the libs."

A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.

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WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

A new Trump administration directive calls on remaining USAID staff to purge the agency’s classified safes and personnel records.

A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

Tom Krause, an ally of Elon Musk’s, is expected to take over the key position.

DOGE staffers will get read-only access to CFPB data, systems, and equipment, according to an internal email reviewed by WIRED.

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The adviser and speechwriter, who has been with President-elect Donald J. Trump since his first term in 2016, is anticipated to have a vast portfolio and influence.