As he paced across a stage at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told the hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals he had summoned from around ...

The defense secretary has successfully reshaped the Pentagon press corps to include some of the furthest-right “reporters.” ...

That penchant for performative press hatred is key to understanding Hegseth, who has, since our interview, ascended from Fox ...