Efficiency − or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it
- Written by Allison Stanger, Distinguished Endowed Professor, Middlebury
Elon Musk, right, has moved to take the reins of the U.S. government.Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesElon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory...