‘When you lose you need to shut the...

Former NBA player Charles Barkley congratulated President-elect Donald Trump and criticized the Democratic Party for blaming its candidates for losing the November election, suggesting the problem is much bigger. In the days following the election that saw Trump win the presidency and Republicans take the Senate and House majorities, Barkley offered his own political analysis on his podcast The Steam […]

‘Very sane, very solid’ Glenn Youngkin’s next act...

As the calendar turns to 2025, attention turns toward Virginia, one of the few states with off-year elections, as well as the popular Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA). Republican Youngkin recently waved off questions about joining President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, highlighting his plans to serve out the remainder of his term which ends in January 2026. […]

The bureaucratic behemoth awaiting Pete Hegseth at the...

Pete Hegseth may have been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to weed the woke out of the Department of Defense, but he has a far bigger bureaucratic task on his hands than just scrubbing the Pentagon of DEI. Hegseth, a Princeton and Harvard graduate, served for about two decades in the U.S. Army Reserve and […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Trump’s pick for secretary of defense

Washington Examiner Defense Reporter Mike Brest joins Magazine Executive Editor Jim Antle to discuss President-elect Donald Trump‘s controversial Cabinet nominations, including his pick for secretary of defense and his decision to make former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard his director of National Intelligence. Trump has had rocky relationships with generals who served as secretary of defense, […]

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