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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Adam Serwer: Now, This Is Rigged
Tennessee just completely disenfranchised its black voters after the Supreme Court gave red states the green light to rig the midterms by redistrictin...
Isaac Saul: The Mind-Blowing Self-Dealing in the Oval Office
Trump's corruption is so astonishing, extensive, and overwhelming that most people can't keep up with all the ways he's profiting off his presidency e...
Arash Azizi and Jodi Kantor: Iran Has the Leverage
The regime in Tehran is not as fractured as is commonly portrayed, and it is also pragmatic enough to see the economic opportunities that would follow...
Melissa Murray: Reclaim the Constitution
Our Constitution is about limited government and restraining the power of the state, but we've got a president asserting powers he lawfully doesn't ha...
Bill Kristol: Trump's Revenge Tour Is Backfiring
Acting AG Tood Blanche announced over the weekend that basically everybody in America can use the expression "86 47" without fear of prosecution—excep...
Adam Kinzinger: The First Family's Corruption Is Mind-Blowing
Fox News wouldn't shut up about Hunter and Burisma, but its viewers aren't likely to hear any criticism of Eric and Don Jr. raking it in through gover...
Jon Ossoff: Trump Is a Lifelong Racist
The bombshell voting rights ruling from the Supreme Court may have been years in the making, but Ossoff sees a tie-in to Trump's sore-loserdom and his...
John Heilemann: Did Trump Make an Ominous Shift on Iran?
At home, POTUS shows how much he wants to be like an Arab despot, plastering his mug all over the place and deploying the Justice Department to fatuou...
Carol Leonnig and Will Sommer: The Loons and the Loyalists Running the DOJ
Acting AG Todd Blanche, who watched Pam Bondi get fired, knows exactly what his assignment is: Go after every political enemy Trump wants targeted, an...
Bill Kristol: Words Are Not Violence
Trump is a terrible president and he deserves to be criticized, even in personal terms. Our pro-democracy movement has shown time and time again that...
Nicholas Kristof: What a Mess Trump Created
Not only is the new hardline regime in Tehran now more likely to go rogue as a nuclear power a la North Korea, ordinary Iranians—who Trump and Bibi in...
Ben McKenzie and Sarah Matthews: We Are Drowning in Scam Artists
Trump has gone full “1984” with his claim that it’s a good thing that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. He also says that he saved some Iranian women fr...
Sam Stein: Can Trump Avoid Humiliation in Iran?
Trump's madman antics got him into a game of chicken with Iran, but he's up against people who are even crazier than he is. And he is not likely to ge...
Tracy Alloway and Jordan Ritter Conn: The Global Economic Shock from a Stupid War
Trump keeps jawboning the markets to try to manage the fallout from the war on Iran, but we have yet to see the full economic impact of his foreign po...
Bill Kristol: The Tough Guy Really, Really Means It This Time
Just hang tight: Trump is super close to a deal with an enemy that he handed all the leverage to. Absolutely do not read his steady supply of hollow t...
Ben Rhodes: Trump Is Getting a Terrible Deal
The U.S. and Israel started dropping bombs on Iran because the regime, amid mass street protests, appeared to be in a weakened state. But the regime h...
Amanda Carpenter: The Worst President Ever
From Trump's sacrilegious use of Jesus, to his massively corrupt pardon scheme, and his desire to plaster his name on every federal building and insti...
Alastair Campbell: Trump Is a Wanker
The Irish are protesting in the streets over the price of fuel, Qatar's GDP is plummeting, and heating bills are skyrocketing in France. And today, ev...
Michael Weiss: Iran Is Not Likely to Forget about the War
The Iranian regime may be wounded, but it’s likely to seek revenge for the war at some point, maybe even through sleeper cells in the United States. A...
Bill Kristol: Are the Winds Finally Shifting?
Orbán’s loss in Hungary was so overwhelming he couldn’t cheat his way out of it. But the decisive defeat for both Putin and authoritarianism may also...
Jane Coaston: We Have Some Questions, Melania
No one was really asking about Melania’s ties to Epstein. But after her surprise White House statement to the press on Thursday, the questions are flo...
Anne Applebaum: Hungary's Surreal, Post-Reality Campaign
Putin puppet Viktor Orbán—whose nepotistic and corrupt government in Hungary has become the model for the far-right in America and Europe—is facing hi...
David French and Suhas Subramanyam: The Superpower Folded in Front of the Whole World
Trump showed that he is completely unequipped to be a war leader. He threatened crimes against humanity, and not only let a foe prove it could take ou...
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz: The Dangers Posed by Sam Altman
AI poses real existential threats. The global economy is dependent on it, it's being deployed in war zones and used for domestic surveillance, and it'...
Bill Kristol: POTUS, the Macho Madman
In threatening to bomb Iran to smithereens, Trump seems to be motivated by a combination of frustration, vengeance, and wanting to look like a tough g...
Robert Kagan: We’re Transitioning to a Post-American World
The pro-Iran war hawks keep crowing about how U.S. military prowess is supposedly striking fear in Beijing and Moscow. But what’s really happening is...
Susan Glasser: The President Is Crazy and Delusional
Trump fired Pam Bondi, maybe the most destructive AG in the history of the United States, because she wasn't able to magically and lawlessly jail his...
Josh Barro and Paige Cognetti: The World Is Going to Blame Trump
The war-induced global oil shock is already pushing consumers and businesses to new pain points because of higher fuel prices. Airlines are cutting ba...
Jon Lovett: It Is Time to Scream and Yell
Trump has served up so many rationales for why he had to do this war, but helping Iran project even more power in the region was surely not one of the...
Bill Kristol: No Kings
Thousands of soldiers and Marines have arrived in the Middle East to potentially engage in combat on Iranian soil. Trump has done nothing to make the...
Michael Steele: The King of Debt Is Blowing Up the U.S. Economy
In addition to the global energy shock brought on by Trump's war, mortgage rates are surging, and labor costs and prices are rising. And Republicans d...
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake
For nearly 50 years, since the Ayatollah seized power in Iran and took Americans hostage, the U.S. has known that the regime could single-handedly shu...
Angie "Pumps" Sullivan and Phil Gordon: The Dumbest People Are Running this Country
Trump's shamelessness has been his political superpower, but the regime in Tehran is seeing a desperate and panicked man doing the opposite of what he...
Jeffrey Goldberg and Joe Weisenthal: Pandora's Box Has Been Opened
A war of choice may evolve into a war of necessity because the brains at the White House apparently did not anticipate that Iran—in response to the bo...
Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head
The man in charge is bluffing, blustering, and trying to manipulate the markets by claiming that the administration is in negotiations with Iran and w...
David Frum: A Very Bad Time for Bozos to Be in Charge
The U.S. is at war with the leading state sponsor of terror, and Donald Trump appointed Markwayne Mullin—a man with no counter-terrorism experience—to...
James Talarico: The Bulwark LIVE from Dallas
For Talarico, it doesn't really matter whether Cornyn or Paxton wins their runoff battle. Either way, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate says he is...
Ro Khanna: Trump Is in Denial
POTUS is pretending the laws of supply and demand don't apply when it comes to the price of oil. And his long list of conflicting statements on the St...
Ashley St. Clair and Cameron Kasky: Leaving the MAGA Cult
A former MAGA influencer who saw the underbelly of the immense power and wealth around this administration says never-Trumpers should show compassion...
Bill Kristol: End the War
As the Iran war enters its third week, the Trump administration looks like it doesn’t know what it’s doing: It did not bother to consult U.S. allies b...