Josh Marcus
Josh Marcus is a social justice reporter at The Independent whose politics coverage follows how government power and corporate influence shape civil rights, climate and the carceral system. He joined The Independent in 2021 and reports across prisons, environmental harms and systemic inequality alongside US political developments. His work on The Independent’s End the Death Penalty campaign was shortlisted for the 2022 Digiday Media Awards, reflecting a sustained focus on capital punishment and criminal justice reform. Before joining The Independent, his reporting appeared at outlets including VICE News, Rolling Stone, Outside magazine and Minnesota Public Radio.
Power, security and Trump-era politics
Marcus writes regularly on the mechanics of Trump-era power, from military posturing in the Caribbean to the inner workings of security institutions and partisan spectacle around elections. In one report he examines how Trump has spent months sending ships to the Caribbean and is described as ready to invade Cuba, treating troop movements and naval deployments as a window into the administration’s approach to regional security and brinkmanship.
He has covered calls from former Homeland Security leadership for a “reset” of a department they describe as “radioactive” and a “pariah” because of deportation policy, showing how enforcement agencies become political flashpoints.
His work on H-1B visa rules explains how proposed changes to grace periods could make it even harder for families using the programme to remain in the US, linking immigration policy detail to lived consequences for workers and their dependents. Marcus also covers the more theatrical side of politics, including Trump blasting empty seats at a Republican convention as “fake news” despite photographs of a thin crowd, and online outrage over journalists and staff serving as Air Force One decoys, using these stories to illustrate how image management, media criticism and personal security tactics intertwine.
Money and influence inside Trump-world are a recurring thread. Marcus has broken down how Trump and his family built a fortune through a crypto empire after previously calling Bitcoin a “scam”, focusing on the gulf between their earnings and the losses suffered by everyday investors. He has detailed how companies backed by Trump’s sons earn billions from increased defence spending, treating procurement and contracting as part of the political story rather than a separate business beat. Across these pieces, he places financial flows, military tools and immigration rules in the same frame to show how policy, profit and personal power reinforce one another.
Technology, data centres and environmental politics
Marcus reports extensively on where advanced technology collides with environmental risk and political backlash. He has covered plans for an Amazon-linked power plant serving data centres in Texas that could become one of America’s biggest polluters, treating emissions, grid impacts and corporate strategy as part of the same narrative. In a broader feature, he shows how communities nationwide are fighting furiously against data centres, while the companies behind them turn to politics to overcome resistance, highlighting zoning battles, local organising and new lobbying efforts around digital infrastructure.
His work on Katie Miller’s financial stake in Elon Musk’s AI firm while publicly attacking rival companies uses personal holdings and rhetorical campaigns to reveal conflicts of interest in the emerging AI sector.
He also tracks the frontier of military technology.
In a long reported piece on Foundation Future Industries, Marcus examines efforts to build robot soldiers for tomorrow’s wars and the growing alarm among human rights experts, treating automation, ethics and battlefield doctrine as a single story rather than separate technical beats. That same sensibility appears in his coverage of graduation speeches where speakers insist on optimism about artificial intelligence but students respond with boos, capturing how political rhetoric about innovation diverges from public anxiety about jobs and social disruption. His technology writing consistently connects hardware, platforms and prediction markets to electoral dynamics, regulatory debates and community-level reaction rather than treating them as neutral advances.
Civil rights, prisons and punishment
Civil rights and the justice system sit at the core of Marcus’s remit, both in his official brief and in his choice of stories. Beyond capital punishment work, he covers violence and suspicion around Black lives, such as the case of a man arrested over the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree, situating individual tragedies in the wider context of policing and racial justice. His broader portfolio on prisons and punishment, as reflected in his role description and death penalty campaign work, emphasises the human consequences of incarceration and the policy choices that sustain it.
Across these pieces, Marcus writes in direct, explanatory prose that privileges the experiences of people subject to state power and the systems designed to control them.
Emerging trends and political futures
Marcus uses explainers and bulletins to track where political futures are being priced and imagined. In coverage of prediction markets, he has described how Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez emerges as a frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, while conventional polling still places other figures ahead, showing how different information systems produce different pictures of the future. His reporting on Trump’s crypto ventures and on data centre fights brings together speculative finance, energy demand and campaign positioning to show how technological and economic bets feed directly into electoral strategy.
Across politics, technology and justice, Marcus’s distinction lies in treating each story as part of an evolving system of power, rather than as isolated events, with particular attention to who profits, who is policed and who is left to deal with the environmental and social costs.
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