Jim Swift

1 day ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift

Hard to turn around these days without tripping over an embarrassing story about Pete Hegseth’s clown-car Defense Department, but here’s one particularly evocative vignette from Politico about his outgoing chief of staff, Joe Kasper:At times, Kasper’s detractors say his leadership seemed almost juvenile. He graphically described his bowel movements to colleagues in one high-level meeting, according to two people who were in the meetings.

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Andrew Egger |Cathy Young |Jim Swift

NowNew York CNN — Ever since President Donald Trump introduced his first round of new tariffs, it’s been a waiting game to see just how much they’ll impact the global economy. This week, one of the earliest signs was revealed — and it wasn’t pretty. South Korea’s Customs Service reported that exports for …

3 days ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift |Joe Perticone

If you were an ailing pope, one of the metal things you could do is gut it through Holy Week out of sheer force of will and die on Easter Monday. RIP, Francis. Happy Monday. by Joe PerticoneVATICAN CITY—I was walking along the Tiber river when a push notification delivered the news that Pope Francis, a pragmatic leader of the church who emphasized practicing compassion above nearly everything else, had died Monday morning after celebrating Easter. I arrived in the Piazza San Pietro soon thereafter.

5 days ago | thebulwark.com | Jim Swift

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6 days ago | thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift

A major intra-Democratic story to watch going forward: David Hogg, one of several vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee, is planning on spending millions on primary challenges against some House Democratic incumbents next year through a separate group he leads. As you might expect, many House Democrats are less than thrilled about this. “What a disappointment from leadership,” Rep. Hillary Scholten, a Michigan swing-district lawmaker, told Axios.