Welcome to 538's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

A made-up story about Musk helping a Starbucks barista's daughter originated on YouTube, then took on new life thanks to ...

Colbert got to that first by describing Musk, who holds no government position but has been illegally given access to dozens ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa needed to call Elon Musk on Monday evening. So his adviser, Bejani Chauke, called ...

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is set to release an Android version of its chatbot Grok, currently available for pre-registration ...

Trump on Sunday accused South Africa of confiscating land and badly treating "certain classes of people". Ramaphosa responded on Monday that the government had not confiscated any land and the policy ...

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch thinks the clamor from people like Elon Musk to declare AI as smarter than humans is driven by an ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paid nearly $1 million to settle a sexual misconduct case brought by one of the employees at his ...

Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having ...

China’s Ministry of Finance announced the same day that it would levy a 15 percent tax on certain types of coal and liquefied natural gas, as well as a 10 percent tariff on agricultural machinery, ...

China countered President Donald Trump’sacross-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports. It will also launch an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade ...

Already, estimates of the wealth held by the top one percent in the US are high (US$11.6 million on an average in 2025) and ...