Inside the rush to respond to Musk’s ‘What did you do last week?’
Cabinet secretaries in the US struggle to respond to a directive from President Donald Trump’s most powerful adviser
Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s brutal rampage through the US government should be a warning to our politicians
A State that wastes the guts of €7m on an unusable computer system is rubbing salt in the wounds of citizens who have delayed starting families because of the housing crisis
Elon Musk says: ‘My Irish friends are awesome’ – but who are they?
In the News podcast: Musk shares posts complaining about immigration into Ireland by Michael O’Keeffe, one of a number of Irish people to have grabbed the world’s richest man’s attention
Europe should be flattered by Maga’s attacks
A central goal of Trump’s henchmen is to defang the EU’s regulatory power for the benefit of American Big Tech
Irish Tesla owners: How do you feel about your car as Elon Musk makes the headlines?
Have your say: Sales of the electric car across Europe almost halved in January
Kathy Sheridan: Zelenskiy embodies the sacrifice of his people
Ukrainian leader has offered to step down in exchange for Nato membership or if it brings peace
America is suffering from an epidemic of mass cowardice
The US is not yet a fascist society, but acting as if it is risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy
Response to Elon Musk’s email shows possible limits to how far he can push US bureaucracy
Several government agencies tell employees not to reply to Musk’s email asking ‘what did you do last week?’
The idiot wind now howling through the US offers Ireland a transformative windfall
Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains
Trump administration cuts 1,600 USAid jobs with others placed on administrative leave
Billionaire Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency has led an effort to gut the US Agency
Trump and his contradictory economic agenda
US president stood for election on a pro-growth platform but with ostensibly anti-growth policies
Trump, America’s Emperor of Chaos, is far more dangerous this time
Trump’s opponents cower before him, and many of the country’s institutions look unfit for opposition
Markets shrug off Trump’s authoritarian signals
It pays to see the glass as half-full in bull markets, but risks are rising
The White Lotus effect: Who’d associate themselves with such sickening decadence? Almost anyone who can afford to, it seems
‘These people are awful. Oh, I so want to be them’ has always been a key component of the American dream
Case involving Gript, X and the State is grist to the conspiracy theorist mill
If a search warrant had been executed against the Gript office then it would have known about it; but an order to an internet firm demanding private messages is invisible
Elon Musk’s Irish friends and their influence on the powerful billionaire
Musk frequently shares or highlights posts complaining about immigration into Ireland by Michael O’Keeffe, one of a number of Irish people to have grabbed the world’s richest man’s attention
Javier Milei wins Senate votes despite memecoin scandal
Libertarian secures electoral reform after his most difficult week since becoming Argentina’s president
Tesla reaches Irish milestone with 10,000 EVs sold and delivered
Elon Musk-helmed company will launch the Model Y SUV to the Irish market in May
America divided: Musk and Trump on Fox News, Sanders on CNN
Switching from one channel to the other underlines the seismic drift between competing ideologies
Musk’s X in talks to raise money at $44bn valuation
Valuation would match price Musk paid for site despite loss of users and advertisers
Musk debuts Grok-3 AI chatbot to rival OpenAI, DeepSeek
‘Smartest AI on Earth’ available to X’s Premium+ subscribers immediately
Ireland’s EU commissioner snubs offer to meet top Meta executive
Michael McGrath dodged request to sit down with Facebook executive Nick Clegg, records show
Who will stand up to Trump at High Noon?
Trump’s glowering mugshot even hangs outside the Oval, like an Old West 'Wanted: dead or alive' poster
Washington DC feels like a city benignly anticipating its own ruin
The question implicit in US foreign policy - ‘who’s going to stop us?' - is now live in the country’s domestic affairs
Elon Musk’s distractions imperil Tesla as rollercoaster ride continues
Crazy market behaviour cannot persist indefinitely
Safe, transparent, trustworthy AI? No thanks, say US and UK
Planet Business: Plastic straw update, Elon Musk’s 19-year-old Doge lieutenant and the latest in Gulf of America appeasement
Forget Nvidia – the world’s hottest stock is Palantir Technologies
Company was the top-performing S&P 500 stock in 2024
Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Zelenskiy says peace deal possible only after plan is agreed with US and Europe
US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’
How will Elon Musk’s business empire benefit from his relationship with Trump?
The world’s richest man now holds huge sway over its most powerful leader — and the US government
Will ‘steely, unflinching’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt be chewed up like her predecessors?
As with Sean Spicer and Kayleigh McEnany before her, Leavitt (27) knows that keeping media-obsessed Donald Trump happy is a high wire act
Kanye West has taken vice-signalling to a new level of brutishness. Can he come back?
The pendulum will probably find a position of equilibrium between the priggish extravagances of the 2010s and the nastiness of the current moment
‘It’s boobing out!’ Kim Kardashian cries. Irish Times readers will recognise this reference to the Heaney poem of that name
The celebrity clan have so Truman Show-ed their existence that all significant events in their lives have occurred on camera
Unelected Musk holds court in Trump’s Oval Office as he defends efficiency drive
Musk, accompanied by son X, seeks to present the work of Doge as good common sense as Trump stays largely silent
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