Dean Phillips and Mikie Sherrill: The Right Call
Two Democratic members of Congress who called on Biden to pass the torch join Tim Miller today.
58m Aug 15, 2024
58m
Brian Tyler Cohen and Carol Leonnig: Go Inside the Bubble
The anti-MAGA world should keep going on right-wing media platforms, and maybe embarrass their hosts in the process—like Buttigieg on Fox, and Tim on Tomi Lahren's show.
47m Aug 14, 2024
47m
Amanda Carpenter: Trump's Traumatic Month
Trump may be holed up at Mar-a-Lago because he's afraid of another attempt on his life.
59m Aug 13, 2024
59m
Bill Kristol and Christopher Cadelago: Increasingly Unhinged
Biden's departure from the race has put Trump in a real funk.
44m Aug 12, 2024
44m
Nate Silver: Underdog Story
Kamala is now the star of a story involving a woman called into duty at a moment of crisis with a sitcom dad as a running mate—and Trump can see the danger.
51m Aug 09, 2024
51m
Adam Kinzinger: MAGA Hates America
Trump and his supporters don't like America as it currently exists, and their veep pick JD Vance is like the U.S.-hating Code Pink, but in a suit.
43m Aug 08, 2024
43m
Peter Callaghan and Isaac Stanley-Becker: Veep Peeks
Tim talks to a local Minnesota reporter to get the low-down on Tim Walz's recent political history, including where he falls on the progressive-to-moderate spectrum—as well as his weak spots from his tenure as governor, like the 2020 riots in Minneapolis.
46m Aug 07, 2024
46m
Adam Schiff and Michael Steele: A Stabilizing Force
Tim Walz is a great foil for Kamala's West Coast vibe: He looks like he'll fix your car, then grab an Arby's sandwich before he goes duck hunting.
47m Aug 06, 2024
47m
Bill Kristol: Kama-Momentum
Recent polls are showing some pretty significant movement to Harris, and she hasn't even had to play defense yet—though at some point she's going to.
44m Aug 05, 2024
44m
George Conway: Crazy in a Bad Way
Donald Trump checks all the boxes of a person with narcissistic personality disorder, but the mainstream press goes out of its way not to cover his apparent pathologies—and ends up normalizing them.
41m Aug 02, 2024
41m
Dan Pfeiffer: A Scared and Seething Trump
We are witnessing a man who thought he was cruising to a landslide who's now afraid he doesn't know how to talk about Kamala—or how to beat her.
41m Aug 01, 2024
41m
Fred Trump and Will Saletan: An Alpha Emerges
Sure sounds like kind words and affection were in short supply in the Trump household in Queens.
52m Jul 31, 2024
52m
Tom Nichols: Drama Queens About Everything
Republican men used to be stoic and quiet technocrats, but now they're screechy and freaky.
53m Jul 30, 2024
53m
Bill Kristol: Weird and Extreme
Democrats are leaning into the 'Republicans are weird and creepy' talking point—a strategy Tim has long advocated for.
46m Jul 29, 2024
46m
Jennifer Palmieri: The Making of the First Woman President
Women candidates get asked different questions than male candidates—that's just a fact. Kamala has a whole team around her ready to handle queries about her ambition and the racist and sexist attacks.
44m Jul 26, 2024
44m
A.B. Stoddard: Focus Only on Winning
Nancy Pelosi has amassed power through persuasion, and she had the nerve to push a sitting president off the ticket because she prioritized victory.
53m Jul 25, 2024
53m
Rick Perlstein: The Alternative Is Apocalyptic
The modern conservative movement has a built-in ratcheting-up mechanism, so that even when Republicans win, they act like they're losing and the country is on the verge of collapse.
45m Jul 24, 2024
45m
Sam Stein and Ron Brownstein: Now We're Talking
We may have been conditioned to just accept candidates who share their meandering thoughts or end sentences with 'anyway.'
52m Jul 23, 2024
52m
James Carville: Kamala-Gras
It's now the Kamala Harris parade, and James Carville has grabbed his whistle and baton for the march.
29m Jul 22, 2024
29m
Bill Kristol: Biden Drops Out of Race
After banging the drum for quite a while, Bill Kristol and Tim Miller got their wish, and the political world is scrambling for the 106-day sprint to the election— with Trump now officially the oldest presidential nominee in history.
40m Jul 21, 2024
40m
S.E. Cupp: Grieving the Insanity
Republicans wanted a 'do no harm' convention, but it was too corporate and lacked any joie de vivre. And then they ended the affair with grievance, fasci Tucker, and 96 minutes of weird incoherence from Trump.
48m Jul 19, 2024
48m
Adam Kinzinger: Everything Is on the Line
Republicans are tamping down the crazy and the weird at the convention—like no election fraud, no abortion ban talk, and no vaccines—to present their dangerous agenda in a non-threatening way.
36m Jul 18, 2024
36m
Jeff Sharlet and Joe Perticone: The Confidence of a Bully
Trump's shark/electrocution anecdote was not a sign of deterioration. Trump is actually getting better at communicating a solid message in a carnivalesque atmosphere.
50m Jul 17, 2024
50m
Alyssa Farah Griffin: National Unity Is Not Where the GOP Is
J.D. Vance is an incredibly polarizing figure, and his addition to the ticket signals a complete realignment of the Republican Party.
45m Jul 16, 2024
45m
Bill Kristol: Not Resigned to a Trump Presidency
We begin with a rejection of the fatalist rhetoric from the left. It may be an uphill battle, but the pro-democracy forces have to keep our morale up and be creative.
42m Jul 15, 2024
42m
Sam Stein: Violence Is Not the Answer
In this bonus episode following the assassination attempt on Trump, The Bulwark's managing editor Sam Stein joins Tim Miller to discuss the precarious moment we are in, how to dial back the temperature, and how both parties should respond to the violence.
38m Jul 14, 2024
38m
Amanda Carpenter: A Life or Death Bet
Not having dementia is not enough to change the dynamic. Biden needs a proactive message against Trump.
56m Jul 12, 2024
56m
David French: Trump Tries To Run Away from the Christian Nationalists
Inviting Amber Rose to speak at the RNC and adjusting the platform on abortion—Trump is trying to distance himself from MAGA's Christian fundamentalist ranks.
55m Jul 11, 2024
55m
Ezra Klein: A Path to Defeat
Top Democrats say they don't see a way for Biden to win, and some are resigning themselves to being the resistance against Trump.
59m Jul 10, 2024
59m
Bakari Sellers and Elaina Plott Calabro: The Case for Riding with Biden
This is a perfect time to reintroduce Kamala Harris to voters.
50m Jul 09, 2024
50m
Bill Kristol: The Joe Biden Survival Plan
Biden is still is not providing a forward-looking message or explaining why he's the one to beat Trump. Meanwhile, Kamala is showing what an aggressive, proactive campaign looks like.
47m Jul 08, 2024
47m
Annie Lowrey: The Worst Best Economy
Housing prices, the cost of insurance, and sticker shock at the supermarket are still stressing Americans out even while the economy is booming.
44m Jul 05, 2024
44m
Clint Smith: A Reckoning with History
Author, poet, and native New Orleanian Clint Smith set out to write the type of book he should have had in high school.
1hr Jul 04, 2024
1hr
Jon Lovett: Unprecedented Times
The quiet coming from the White House sure suggests that the people around the president don't think Joe at his best can overcome Joe at his worst.
56m Jul 03, 2024
56m
Ben Wittes and Steven Shepard: He Is Still a Criminal
No matter how much the Supreme Court pretends that the words 'high crimes and misdemeanors' are not explicitly in the Constitution, Donald Trump is still a disqualified law-breaker and is exactly the kind of guy the Founding Fathers warned us about.
1hr Jul 02, 2024
1hr
Tom Nichols: Political Malpractice
All Americans who love this country and hate Donald Trump deserve answers about Thursday's abysmal performance—and how we are going to move forward.
57m Jul 01, 2024
57m
Sarah Longwell, Jonathan V. Last, and Jonathan Martin: A Disaster
The Secret Pod makes an emergency appearance to work through last night's terrible performance by Biden and to urge the Democratic Party to do the responsible thing in this moment.
1hr 9m Jun 28, 2024
1hr 9m
Kate Bedingfield and Marc Caputo: Debate Day
Former White House comms director Kate Bedingfield serves up some keen insights into Poppa Joe—he is a night person, he regularly seeks out Jill's opinion, and he is a calming influence.
49m Jun 27, 2024
49m
Stuart Stevens: I think Joe Biden Has Been A Great President
So many of the people who worked around POTUS 44 think no one will ever be as good as Obama, but Stuart Stevens argues that Democrats need to make the case that Joe Biden is a great president.
43m Jun 26, 2024
43m
Symone Sanders-Townsend: Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
Project 2025 sounds mundane, but it would institutionalize Trumpism, eliminate the Department of Education, mass deport 11 million people, and turn the Department of Health and Human Services into the Department of "Life."
44m Jun 25, 2024
44m
Jared Polis and Bill Kristol: Live from Denver
Gov. Jared Polis says Biden should focus on what he'll do for the American people in his campaign, rather than getting caught up in the crazy of Trump.
56m Jun 24, 2024
56m
Jane Coaston: He's So Not a Badass
Trump is not drawing support from black voters because of his criminality—that's just MAGA's bigotry of low expectations.
58m Jun 21, 2024
58m
Adam Kinzinger: Bat**** Crazy
Felon 45 didn't even like being president and no one is taking his ludicrous tariff plan seriously—but Republicans can't stop tripping over each other to show him their fealty.
39m Jun 20, 2024
39m
George Packer: Phoenix, the Most American City
Phoenix is a microcosm of the big issues in the election and the country generally, including political extremism, climate change, and the border.
50m Jun 19, 2024
50m
Lauren Windsor and Ben Wittes: A Deep Rot
Justice Alito and his wife seem to have some pretty deep and dark feelings about the people they dislike.
52m Jun 18, 2024
52m
Will Saletan: Nonstop Shamelessness
Trump visited an African American church in Detroit and the pews were filled with white people; Republicans keep flooding social media with cropped videos to smear Biden; and foreign policy hawks, like Tom Cotton, now say we should be standing up to our allies, not Putin.
46m Jun 17, 2024
46m
Jonathan V. Last and Ben Raderstorf: Retribution Agenda
Republicans had a tête-à-tête with Trump to remind him how, if he wins, he should extend the tax cuts before he gets tied up with punishing all his enemies.
52m Jun 13, 2024
52m
Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer: The Inside Story of the Fall of Roe
A coalition of Christian lawyers, activists, and politicians methodically and secretly took down Roe, and in the process, outsmarted Democrats who believed they had permanently won on the issue of abortion.
32m Jun 12, 2024
32m
Jennifer Senior: Secrets and Lies
Pulitzer-Prize winning Jen Senior joins Tim Miller for a free-form conversation about jail-bound, faux martyr Steve Bannon, the debilitating reality of living with long Covid, unearthing a family trauma, and how Americans with differing political persuasions can find their way to back to each other.
59m Jun 11, 2024
59m
Bill Kristol: Tuberville's Policy Is the Same as Trump's
Tommy Tuberville's know-nothing appeasement of Putin lines up exactly with where the ex-POTUS is—Biden should be making Trumpworld squirm over that fact.
50m Jun 10, 2024
50m