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Pete Buttigieg blasts Trump's rant against air traffic controllers and the Biden administration

“Other than mostly pronouncing my name right, everything he said was wrong,” Buttigieg said.

Pete Buttigieg will join Abigail Spanberger for Virginia get-out-the-vote rally

The gay former transportation secretary and Democratic star will join the pro-LGBTQ+ candidate for governor in Charlottesville.

Pete Buttigieg warns progressives to focus on reinvention and not restoration

“Our job is not to go around picking up the shards of what there was and trying to tape them back together,” the former transportation secretary said.

Pete Buttigieg responds to Tucker Carlson’s ‘very specific questions about gay sex’ on Kara Swisher’s podcast

“I suppose it’s a sign of progress that their idea of a conspiracy is that I’m actually secretly straight,” the former transportation secretary said.

Rachel Maddow confronts Kamala Harris on not picking Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because he’s gay

"To say that he couldn’t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay. It’s hard to hear,” Maddow told the former vice president.

Pete Buttigieg responds to Kamala Harris not choosing him as her running mate because he’s gay

In her upcoming book, Harris says Americans wouldn't have voted for a Black woman and a gay man. Buttigieg says they deserve more credit.

Kamala Harris reveals why she didn't pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024

He was her "first choice,” but “we were already asking a lot of America,” the former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee wrote.

Pete Buttigieg opens up on why Joe Biden should not have sought reelection

The former transportation secretary also discussed the recent Charlie Kirk assassination.

How the respectability politics of fairness will lead us nowhere

Opinion: "We must fully reject respectability politics and those who espouse it — now is no time for capitulation or compromise," argues Marcie Bianco.

Tucker Carlson says Pete Buttigieg is 'fake gay,' should answer questions about gay sex

The far-right commentator made the wild claim on his podcast.

Pete Buttigieg clarifies recent comments around ‘fairness’ of transgender kids’ in sports

“I see this issue being used to divide,” the former transportation secretary told independent journalist Aaron Parnas.

Sarah McBride says Democrats need to stop being ‘a-holes’ to potential voters

As the party’s favorability collapses, the transgender congresswoman says the path forward begins with humility, not purity tests.

Is Pete Buttigieg taking a page from Bill Clinton of the 1990s and triangulating? And is that a bad thing?

Opinion: Recent pronouncements by the former Transportation secretary seem to have him toeing the line on a fragile and shifting trifecta, writes John Casey.

Pete Buttigieg says Democrats must end ‘preachy’ politics to combat Trump’s autocratic government takeover

He warned that the fear of saying the wrong thing has morphed into a hallmark of rising autocracy.

Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports

He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

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Pete Buttigieg, Charlamagne tha God say Democrats should hammer home Trump’s Epstein cover-up

The gay former transportation secretary says the GOP’s Epstein shutdown should dominate headlines, just like Republicans made trans athletes their obsession.

Here's what Pete Buttigieg had to say about Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' passing Congress

"It is up to us, the American people, to respond politically and say that it is unacceptable to harm the majority of Americans to make the very wealthiest a little better off,” Buttigieg said in an Instagram video.

Revenge of Transportation head Sean Duffy, wronged by a lesbian and a gay man: banning rainbow crosswalks

Opinion: Under the guise of fighting "road hazards," Trump and his administration want to make LGBTQ+ people into roadkill, writes John Casey.

New poll shows who currently leads potential 2028 Democratic presidential field

As the party seeks a leader, one former cabinet member is leading the field in early polls.

Here's what Zohran Mamdani's win in NYC really means for Democrats, and it's not swinging wildly to the left

Opinion: Mamdami looked to the future and brought boldness and a sense of urgency to the race, which is what the rest of the party needs to do, writes John Casey.

Pete Buttigieg outraged Trump admin crossed ‘reddest of red lines’ handcuffing senator questioning Noem

The former transportation secretary said Americans must raise their voices to combat Trump's authoritarianism.