I’m a senior writer for WIRED covering the White House and national politics.

I started with the magazine as a freelancer, writing series of stories for WIRED on Elon Musk’s political influence within the Trump campaign and then the Trump White House. Subsequently, I broke the first major story about rifts in President trump’s inner circle over Musk’s role with DOGE, revealed for the first time Stephen Miller and his wife Katie’s influence on Musk as his guides to life in Washington, co-wrote the first story on the unprecedented multi-million dollar paid dinners at Mar-a-Lago once Trump took office, and delivered a tight deadline scoop on Musk’s push for a government shutdown — which was averted, in part, because of our reporting’s impact on Sen. Chuck Schumer’s decision making.

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.

(Reader note: This website was last updated in May, 2025.)