This is part of Hello, Trumpworld, Slate’s reluctant guide to the people who will be calling the shots now—at least for as ...

The president-elect’s carefully chosen appointments represent his vision and priorities for his return to the White House ...

A group of three 20-something young men in black tie walked past me on Capitol Hill on Saturday night, no doubt on their way ...

The incoming president has told allies he wants to seize momentum and avoid the missteps of his first administration.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) reaffirmed his pressure on President-elect Trump’s Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and said ...

President-elect Donald Trump is returning to Washington triumphant: His legal cases are behind him, corporate executives are ...

Americans didn’t learn much about Pentagon nominee Pete Hegseth at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, but they did learn more about the world’s greatest nondeliberative body. Democrats mostly ...

Will Trump's controversial slate of Cabinet nominations get enough votes to pass the Senate? After the first week, a couple ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) announced that he will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, increasing the nominee’s chances of becoming the next head ...

A nominee to serve in President-elect Donald Trump s cabinet said a Hail Mary with members of his family ahead of his ...

The process started going downhill in 1987, when the infamous Robert Bork hearings turned ugly and personal. A Republican, Bork was a federal appeals court judge and former U.S. solicitor general who ...

Combat veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth is among President-elect Trump's more controversial cabinet nominees.