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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Alyssa Farah: Trump's Big L in Indiana
Despite death threats and harassment, Republicans in Indiana delivered the biggest political setback to Trump since officials in Georgia wouldn’t help...
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers
Republican disunity is being obscured by affection for Trump, but just below the surface, MAGA is being pulled apart at the seams. At the same time, t...
Neera Tanden: America's 'Daddy' Is in a Rut
Big Boss Trump, who claims the power to run the whole government via executive order and pushes all our allies around, is a man suddenly with no agenc...
Mark Hertling: Trump (Still) Hates Europe
Heaping scorn and disdain on Europe, Trump called its countries decaying and its leaders weak, but the U.S. likely needs Europe more than they need us...
Bill Kristol: This Is Not Democratic Government
ICE and Border Patrol are kidnapping people in the suburbs near New Orleans based on racial profiling—it’s like the South of 70 years ago. Mini Greg B...
Tommy Vietor: The 'Peace' President
Trump is overseeing extrajudicial killings off the coast of Venezuela but nothing was going to stop him from getting a peace prize—even if it’s a fake...
Sam Stein: We Got Ourselves a Mad King
Trump’s use of his pardon power is downright crazy, and that’s not even counting his rescue of a convicted drug kingpin. He’s also sabotaging his own...
Jonathan Lemire: A Bubble-Wrapped Trump
Trump’s rallies have been his signature event, but since he returned to the White House, he has stopped doing them. And his allies are worried he’s lo...
Olivia Nuzzi Breaks Her Silence
There are no shortage of scandals plaguing Washington D.C. right now.
One that has captivated much of the political and med...
Project 2025 Is Coming Back To Bite Trump
As a candidate, Trump knew to steer clear of Project 2025. But as president, he embraced its deeply unpopular policy goals and it has been driving dow...
Bill Kristol: A Kleptocratic, Autocratic Cabal
Not only are the opportunities for personal financial gain for Trump and his White House cronies driving the administration’s foreign policy decisions...
George Packer: Trump Was a Symptom
Americans were already losing touch with basic decency before Trump came along—and he exploited that indecency, distrust, and division to win power. I...
Andrew Weissmann: Just Release the Damn Epstein Files
Trump needs to quit the games and his defamatory accusations about who's in the Epstein files, and just release the 300 gigabytes of data from the Eps...
Michael Weiss: Trump's Ukraine Cluster**ck
A troika of foreign policy amateurs—Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and JD Vance—are trying to impose a Russia-drafted peace plan on Ukraine. While Trum...
Bill Kristol: The Cracks in Trump's Power Are Showing
Unrest has broken out in MAGA, and Mike Johnson looks like he’s losing control of the House—which means that Trump could be losing control of the part...
Adam Kinzinger: Trump Has Never Seemed this Scared
As a man who’s not used to losing, Trump is going through a bit of a rough patch since his party turned against him over the Epstein case. He’s flaili...
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy
Tim Cook and the other tech titans who dined with bone saw murderer MBS—and who’ve given millions to Trump to knock down our history for his gilded ba...
Kamala Harris: This Is Our Country
Before a live audience in Nashville Tuesday, Kamala Harris discussed what it takes to fight back against Trump. But she also threw punches—against the...
Jonathan Karl: The White House Chaos Is Worse This Time
The White House leaks may be more contained in Trump 2.0, but the slavish loyalists who POTUS has surrounded himself with do nothing to keep him withi...
Bill Kristol: Fight on All Fronts
Not a lot of people predicted that Trump would fold and let Congress vote on the release of the Epstein files. But his retreat shows that Democrats ha...
David Frum: This Is Shame-Faced Trump
Our commander-in-chief and breaker of mores can only muster the energy to beg Republicans to stop talking about Epstein. Where is the blustery guy who...
Alex Wagner: Team Trump Can't Get Its Epstein Story Straight
Trump's involvement with Epstein is simultaneously a "hoax," but he was also a "perfect gentleman" when he spent hours with one of Epstein's underage...
Mikie Sherrill and Michael Fanone: Full-Time Criming and Corruption
New Jersey’s governor-elect credits her big win last week to an affordability message—and ignoring the pundits. But Sherrill also tied rising costs an...
Chris Hayes: Trump Has Become 'The Establishment'
While Trump won the first time as an anti-status-quo hero, the low-trust podcast cranks like Rogan and Tim Dillon who put him back in the White House...
Will Saletan: Sorry, but the Democrats Won the Shutdown
The very online crowd is very upset, but Dems did fight like Republicans. This was a longer shutdown than anything the Tea Party pulled and real pain...
Jessica Tarlov: Republicans Are in the Barrel
Our economy may be in the early days of stagflation, Democrats are winning the shutdown fight, and Republicans aren't getting help from the tariff kin...
Jonathan V. Last and Carol Leonnig: The Danger of a Weakened Bully
Trump took it on the chin in Tuesday's elections, SCOTUS sounds skeptical about his tariffs, and his plan to 'gerry-rig' the midterms looks like it is...
Dave Weigel: Now That's a Landslide
The huge Democratic wins in Virginia, New Jersey, NYC, and California spoke loud and clear—and make Trump’s 2024 supposed ‘landslide’ margin of 1.5% l...
Andy Beshear and Terry Moran: The Power of Normal People
With Trump slashing SNAP benefits, Gov. Beshear is asking the people of Kentucky to look out for their neighbors so they don't go hungry—since the adm...
Bill Kristol: Fake News on '60 Minutes'
CBS News heavily edited its ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump, not only removing his lies about 2020, but also conveniently cutting the part about how...
Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?
It’s hard to find a better example of seizing the means of production than our government seizing an equity stake in a company—which Trump keeps doing...
Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurts Farmers
President Trump meets with Xi Jinping and agrees to an embarrassingly one-sided trade deal, as the “China Hawks” in the administration cower. Meantime...
Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll
From the jump, the administration has been all about the memes, owning the libs, and pissing people off. But Abby says she wants Trump’s supporters to...
Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?
While the inhumane and aggressive tactics unfolding in Chicago are repelling many Americans, they are having the opposite effect among Trump's top aid...
Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum
Trump was so embarrassed by Canada using Reagan’s warnings about tariffs that he had a little hissy fit and decided to punish Americans for buying Can...
Ryan Holiday: Life Is Too Short to Be a Bootlicker
Members of the administration, like Stephen Miller, who spend hours every day kissing Trump’s ass look so pathetic—but since the time of the ancients,...
Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand
The convicted felon was legitimately prosecuted for hoarding classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. And he was justifiably investigated over the numerous cont...
Jon Favreau: Foundational Freedoms
One of the promises of this country has been the freedom to walk down the street without being harassed by the government. But even being an American...
Michael Weiss and Karine Jean-Pierre: Low Energy Trump
Putin’s friend in the White House may be back in his safe space with his kindred spirit in Moscow, but Trump is finding that he has limited leverage o...
Bill Kristol: Trump Hates America
Nearly seven million Americans peacefully took to the streets out of their love for this country, and Trump in response acted out like a toddler obses...