I’m a politics reporter on the Trump GOP beat — and more recently the fraught Trumpworld–Elon Musk sub-beat — as a contributor for WIRED magazine and the Columbia Journalism Review. On politics and other subjects, I’m available for freelance work (like this Kash Patel v. Elon Musk scoop on DropSite News). On the side, I write the Straight from the Hut newsletter, a non-paywalled but pay-to-support publication focused on campaign and communications strategy — and, because why not, also scoops.

I’ve been writing a series of stories for WIRED on Elon Musk’s political influence within the Trump campaign and now Trump White House.

Print is my first love, but I’ve also hosted and produced podcasts, and appear on cable news from time to time. You might like these MSNBC segments from Chris Hayes and Ali Vitali.

Back during my time at The Daily Beast, you may have heard about my Ron DeSantis pudding fingers story—a sticky anecdote from a longer feature—or the leaked Nancy Mace staff handbook, or that time DeSantis security roughed up a teenager for trying to ask civics-oriented questions. Right before Election Day at WIRED, I broke the story about the terrible working conditions under Elon Musk’s voter turnout operation in Michigan, where paid door knockers were driven around in a U-Haul with no rear seating, and threatened to have their lodging payments withheld if they didn’t hit their quotas.

You can keep up with my latest clips right here on my newsletter.