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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Tom Nichols: Sinking Into the Mire of a Longer War?
The Trump administration is preparing to deploy a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East along with more warships. But that development was not...
Sam Stein: The Ridiculously Unserious President
We’re raining hellfire down on Iran and American soldiers have died, but that doesn’t stop Trump from hitting the links, doing a little dancing, or ho...
Saagar Enjeti: “The Joke Is on Me”
One of the biggest America First fans tells Tim that he thought Trump 2.0 would be different because like-minded, high-level personnel—including the v...
Laura Rozen and Sonny Bunch: War and Dystopia
Before the bombs and the missiles started falling on Iran, Trump sent Jared and Witkoff to try to cut a deal with Tehran. But his two favorite emissar...
Sarah Longwell: No One Should Trust this Government
Unless the administration is keeping some closely-guarded secret about why America went to war against Iran, the only thing officialdom is saying out...
Neera Tanden: Absolute Power Corrupts
Republicans and the Supreme Court have put basically no guardrails on Trump, so he started a global war that is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day. He...
Derek Thompson: Ruling by Emergency
Not only is Trump failing to provide any clarity on why the United States went to war against Iran, the administration is also sticking to its habit o...
Morris Katz: Tax the Billionaires
The starting kit for a unified Democratic Party with the biggest, broadest tent should be calling out the billionaire class that is sabotaging our pol...
Mark Hertling and Ruben Gallego: A Rush to War
The facts on the ground and the ludicrous statements speak for themselves: The administration inadequately planned for the execution of this war. That...
Bill Kristol: A Madman's Way of War
Trump cannot enunciate a clear reason for why he's chosen to go to war against Iran, and the administration is not even bothering to coordinate a mess...
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die
Trump’s head is stuck in the 80s so he may not have noticed that cable is dying. All he can think about is getting his greedy little hands on CNN so h...
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People
No matter how often Trump tries to change the subject, he keeps getting caught in his own attempted diversions. He blames Somali immigrants for import...
Susan Glasser: Trump’s Industrial-Scale Lies
For just under two hours, Trump in his State of the Union address lied about the state of the economy, the cost of living, his tariffs, and even his i...
Charles Duhigg: What MAGA Can Teach Democrats
Apart from all the lies MAGA is forced to say in defense of Donald Trump, the movement is actually better at political organizing than Democrats. So w...
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans
With a shooting at Mar-a-Lago and some real counterterrorism issues associated with Trump's threat of war on Iran, Kash Patel probably had more import...
Michael Weiss: Trump’s Fee-Fees Are Hurt
Of course, SCOTUS struck down Trump’s stupid tariffs. Nearly every legal expert in America said they were unconstitutional, but we have had to live wi...
Sen. Tina Smith: The Bulwark LIVE from Minneapolis
The junior senator from Minnesota joined Tim on Wednesday for the first show of a two-night Bulwark run at the historic Pantages Theatre in Minneapoli...
Mark Leibovich: Democrats Are Too Afraid of Hurting People’s Feelings
Most Democratic politicians are scared to criticize each other. They also fear dinging former presidents, or the various groups that make up the party...
Rick Wilson: The Shamelessness of MAGA
From FCC Chair Brendan Carr—who keeps trying to silence the political opinions of late night TV comedians, to DHS pressuring social media companies to...
Bill Kristol: The Administration’s Stupid Ethnonationalism
The white Anglo-Saxon supremacy in Trumpland is so over the top that even child-of-Cuban-immigrants Marco Rubio claims America’s common cultural herit...
Scott Galloway: Time to Send a Message to the CEOs
In addition to protesting and voting, we have another option hiding in plain sight against this administration: our economic power. Scott says resista...
Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won
ICE failed in its operation in Minnesota because the people would not bend to their terror campaign. Minneapolis residents also maintained incredible...
Ben Wittes: A Defiant Ukraine
Trump may keep telling Ukrainians their country is about to collapse, and Putin may keep bombing their power plants—leaving them miserably cold during...
Jane Coaston: The Epstein Revelations Keep Getting Worse
Not only did Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick go to the Epstein island, a sultan from the UAE, who sent a “torture video” to Epstein, also attended T...
Bill Kristol: MAGA's Grievance Culture
Trump of course hated Bad Bunny's halftime performance, but even he wasn't running the Turning Point alternative at Mar-a-Lago. And a couple of Olympi...
David French: Our State of National Shame
Trump casually posted a racist video and the White House essentially told Americans to calm down. Convicted felons are being treated better than round...
Marty Baron: Behind the Washington Post’s Demise
The massive layoffs at Jeff Bezos's Washington Post involve more than just the financial situation at the paper. The Amazon founder's real priority is...
Robert Kagan and Marianne Williamson: Slipping Into Dictatorship
Donald Trump is going to do everything he can to hold onto his near monopoly on power after the midterms. Beyond his scheme to invoke the Insurrection...
Will Stancil: The Heroes of Minneapolis
From dads standing guard at school doors, to Costco moms delivering food to people afraid to leave home, and to the ICE spotters patrolling the street...
Bill Kristol: The MAGA Elites Are Such Frauds
JD originally made a name for himself as an economic populist but now spends all his time lying and ignoring the woes of the white working class. Step...
Michael Steele: A Petty, Punk-Ass President
In the wake of the massive winter storm, the power is still out in some places, trees are down, and the death toll continues to rise. And where is FEM...
Ta-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics
Trump has decidedly built a white supremacist army within the government. And this was always the risk when the Department of Homeland Security was cr...
Adam Serwer and Bobby Pulido: MAGA Got Proven Wrong
The mass deportation operation was supposed to be about the manly men pulling out all the stops in defense of Western civilization, which they claim i...
Gov. Tim Walz and Jason Zengerle: The Assault on Minnesota
The deployment of dangerous, untrained, and violent federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis met its match in a massive, organized, nonviolent res...
Bill Kristol: The Murder of Alex Pretti
The Trump administration’s version of the Stasi murdered Alex Pretti in cold blood because he was exercising his First Amendment right to peacefully a...
Mike Murphy: We’re Living in a Nightmare
Trump is taking billion dollar bribes for his ‘Board of Peace,’ where he can pretend he’ll be the head of a new world order in partnership with Putin....
Fiona Hill: Putin and the Art of Manipulating Trump
Donald Trump is so enamored with Vladimir Putin he doesn't even know the Russian leader is regularly making fun of him in ways that can’t easily be tr...
Rep. Sarah McBride: Our President's Drunk History Take
In his rambling mess of a speech at Davos, Trump confused Iceland and Greenland, and demonstrated that he doesn't understand how NATO works. The infam...
David Plouffe: Democrats Have to Run Against Their Party
The Republican Party may be deeply unpopular, but the Democratic Party is even more so. The Dems' brand is weak despite the success of the off-year el...
Bill Kristol: Trump Is Humiliating Us
The president's demented rant that the United States has to take Greenland because the Nobel committee has not awarded him his much coveted peace priz...