The Bulwark Podcast
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The Bulwark Podcast
Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "bo...
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JB Pritzker and Franklin Foer: Like Living in an Authoritarian Regime
After a court temporarily blocked the deployment of Guard troops in Illinois, ICE agents began ramping up their operations around Chicagoland. They ar...
Bill Kristol and Ty Cobb: Recapturing America
Peaceful protesters in Chicago and Portland have been so clever and effective at ridiculing the masked Stasi agents in their cities that the political...
Jacob Soboroff and Sarah McBride: Democracy at the Ground Level
The administration may be trying to lay the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act by invading Chicago, but the real human stories are br...
Sam Stein: A Bunch of Violent Keystone Cops
ICE and other armed federal agents are doing their best to incite violence in blue cities so they can help Trump realize his unfulfilled dream from 20...
Casey Newton: Lawlessness and Danger in Tech's Brave New World
Trump's TikTok deal looks like classic crony capitalism as well as open theft. But China has bigger fish to fry with trade than its TikTok algorithm—w...
Jake Tapper: Trump Is Making the Country Less Safe
A new kind of McCarthyism has settled in at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors—including those handling tough national security cases—ar...
Bill Kristol and Jane Fonda: The New 'Fierce Urgency of Now'
ICE is intentionally provoking violence in the nation’s cities and then glorifying it with their crack video team. Meanwhile, the rhetoric coming from...
Tom Nichols: All The Circuit Breakers Are Gone
President Trump’s loyalty purges continue. Prosecutors are fired from the U.S. attorney’s office in Eastern Virginia, including people who had nothing...
Symone Sanders-Townsend: The White House’s Goal Is Enacting Pain
The Trump administration is turning up the heat now that the government has shut down, cancelling billions for green projects, targeting funding for i...
Ken Burns: You Have To Be A Bulwark
A government shutdown begins, as a standoff over spending enters what could be a painful phase. And President Trump kicks off the week warning his mil...
Van Lathan and David Jolly: How To Beat Middle Finger MAGAism
Pete Hegseth convenes the military’s top leaders to complain about fat troops and generals and plug his book. Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk’s assassination...
Bill Kristol: Trump Wants Troops in Portland
President Trump orders the National Guard to be deployed to Portland, Ore., after declaring it a war-ravaged city. And reports surface that the admini...
Adam Kinzinger: We Can’t Be Intimidated
President Trump’s quest for revenge escalates, as a grand jury indicts former FBI Director James Comey days after Trump forced out a prosecutor who re...
Ezra Klein: Protecting People Means Winning Power
The White House readies plans for mass firings in the federal government as Democrats weigh the stakes of forcing a government shutdown. The Justice D...
Angie Craig and Glenn Thrush: Don’t Be Called Weak Sauce
A government shutdown creeps closer as President Trump cancels a meeting with Democratic leaders. Former Vice President Kamala Harris embarks on a pre...
Bakari Sellers: The Danger of RFK Jr.
The injecting-bleach president is getting some super-strong pseudoscientific information to scare mothers and blame them for autism while conveniently...
Bill Kristol: Where Is the $50,000?
We thought Tom Homan was just an extreme border hawk and ideologue. Now we know this powerful law enforcement official, who's depriving immigrants of...
Thomas Chatterton Williams: How MAGA Learned to Love Cancel Culture
Cancel culture lives on, but it's taken new turns, especially among some of the loudest opponents of woke culture who simply can not abide one word of...
Brian Stelter and Jonathan V. Last: Worst Case Scenario
The administration wants people to believe that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air because he supposedly crossed a red line when it came to Charlie K...
Susan Rice: A Cancer in the Body Politic
This country has been dealing with an increase in political violence for nearly a decade, and leaders from across the spectrum need to do everything t...
Joe Manchin: The Man in the Middle
The former senator and former Dem has some not-very-nice things to say about Schumer and Obama—as well as progressives—who he blames for hounding Bide...
Bill Kristol: What Does 'They' Mean?
The administration is threatening to take away money and power—and maybe even freedom—from some vague Trump opponents because of the Kirk assassinatio...
David Frum: Leveraging Violence as a Tool of Power
Trump and the people around him want to use the Kirk assassination to suppress their political opposition. And Trump is clearly laying the groundwork...
Erin Ryan: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
This country has too many guns and too many crazy people. And the social media oligarchs are fanning the flames of violence by constantly trying to pi...
Stephanie Ruhle and Tom Saenz: Why Aren't People Freaking Out?
If Zohran Mamdani, as NYC mayor-elect, held a dinner with finance bros and threatened them with a huge wealth tax if they didn't sweet-talk him and sa...
James Bennet: Trump Is Still Hacking the Media
More than 10 years in, journalists still have not figured out how to cover Trump. He understands the media environment better than a lot of reporters,...
Bill Kristol: Escalating the Authoritarian Project
In seven months, Trump has accumulated an astonishing amount of unchecked power. No one inside his administration is challenging his will, and Trump i...
David French: Maybe the Tariffs Are the Problem
Last month, Trump fired the "woke" job numbers person after she released weak employment data. Now, we have even worse jobs numbers—and burgeoning sig...
Mark Hertling: Performative and Deadly
The lethal U.S. military strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean was more about putting on a show than countering the drug trade out of South America....
Lina Khan: The Impunity of the Elites
The economic populists at the Nat Con conference may be talking a lot about elites screwing over the little guy, but the Trump administration itself h...
Stuart Stevens: Say They're Not Patriots
Democrats need to learn to fight like Republicans. So when senators with serious foreign policy chops vote to confirm a middling weekend talk show hos...
Jonathan V. Last: Burning Things Down
Red States are flexing their muscles and imposing their will on the other states through their coordinated redistricting efforts. And if they deploy t...
Tom Nichols: America's Problem Child
Trump is like a dysfunctional 8-year-old whose parents are always in the principal's office arguing that their son is a good boy. The media, CEOs, and...
Sam Stein and Talmon Smith: Brain Drain
The resignations of senior leaders at the CDC is a calamity. People with decades of expertise in infectious disease are leaving the agency because the...
Jake Sullivan: Trump Is Making China Great Again
A year ago, China was globally isolated and its economy was struggling. But once Trump was back in office pursuing his own personal and political gain...
Susan Glasser: An Exercise in National Humiliation
Some rando far-right social media suck-up, who Trump rewarded with an appointment to his administration, is pushing mortgage fraud investigations of A...
Bill Kristol: March to Dictatorship
Trump and his people have used the summer months to up the despot game—sending armed troops into the streets, taking over the police in D.C., and prom...
Tommy Vietor: Trump's Security State
The fears of jack-booted thugs and the military in the streets that filled the fever dreams of numerous people on the right since the 90s have come to...
Garry Kasparov and Jerusalem Demsas: Democracy Can't Defend Itself
While Trump keeps working hard on his own monetization and glorification—and delivers a Watergate practically every hour—the pro-democracy coalition m...
Adam Kinzinger: Don't Feed the Dictator
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine. More than 1 million Russian troops have been killed or injured, and it's been estimated that it would take anothe...