Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, will appear before the Senate on Tuesday morning.

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.

A telling moment in the supremely depressing Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality who is Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, came right at the beginning, when the former Republican senator Norm Coleman introduced him.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department sat for a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday after hearings for Veterans’ Affairs Secretary nominee Doug Collins and Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum were postponed.

Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee to lead the Defense Department, promised to be a change agent and keep politics out of the military in his confirmation hearing.

After the initial crush of personnel announcements for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

Fashion is essentially a story of what the paleontologists Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge called “punctuated equilibrium,” a theory positing that significant change comes in spurts that interrupt lengthy periods of stability or slow evolution. It’s how we got L.B.D.s, the New Look, pants, the possibilities of destruction.

Hegseth used his opening statement at his confirmation hearing to promise a decisive shift in Pentagon culture should he succeed in his nomination.