President-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts in his second administration, putting an emphasis so far on people who were ...

President-elect Donald Trump has flooded the zone with provocative Cabinet nominees. Will a new Republican-majority Senate ...

Controversial nominees like Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth are stretching GOP senators' willingness to abide by the incoming ...

That Trump would choose such candidates for essential roles confirms his bad judgment, and his own unfitness for office. But ...

Before Noem, perhaps the two best-known political figures from South Dakota were Democrats: former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, ...

As Donald Trump rolled out his Cabinet choices last week, the strategy that consigliere Steve Bannon described during the president-elect’s first term naturally popped to mind: “Flood the zone ...

Curtin University’s Dean of Global Futures Joe Siracusa says Donald Trump is looking to make his cabinet a “closed shop”.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem built a national profile during the COVID-19 pandemic, had fellow Republicans buzzing about her future, and published two political memoirs in three years. Lawmakers ...

said “the Freedom Caucus probably would have wanted a pound of flesh,” if Noem had not been nominated for a Cabinet position. He warned that “Mr. Rhoden may face fights simply of guilt by ...