Jamelle Bouie: Bad at Being President
Trump may have authoritarian aspirations, but he's very bad at governing and managing—four weeks into the transition, he's had two major Ls.
47m Dec 06, 2024
47m
David French: We Are in the Bad Multiverse
Kash Patel is making legal threats to try to silence his critics, and Tulsi Gabbard wouldn't even be able to get a security clearance in the regular job market: The parade of incompetence is so bad that Pete Hegseth is being described as the most unqualified Cabinet nominee in American history—and that's before the rape and alcoholism.
1hr 2m Dec 05, 2024
1hr 2m
Rep. Mikie Sherrill: Who Will Be In Charge of Our National Security?
We're going back to a president who can't be bothered to read his briefing books.
47m Dec 04, 2024
47m
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical
Russ Vought, Trump's nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget—and a Project 2025 author—believes we are living in a post-constitutional America and that any check on Trump's power would be illegitimate.
1hr 4m Dec 03, 2024
1hr 4m
Bill Kristol and Elaina Plott Calabro: A Sordid Lot
Kash Patel, who could potentially run the FBI, is a compulsive liar who can't keep his facts straight about his work experience or even where he was born.
1hr 13m Dec 02, 2024
1hr 13m
Jonathan Chait: A Scary Clown
Pete Hegseth may have a winning Fox & Friends smile, but his desire to shoot protesters, commit war crimes, and purge non-MAGA leaders from the military lines up with Trump's views—and is probably the reason why he was nominated for defense secretary.
52m Nov 27, 2024
52m
George Will: Democracy Rests on Persuasion
For those living under a gray cloud because of what the American electorate has done, it's time to get to work on changing opinions.
45m Nov 26, 2024
45m
Bill Kristol: We Were Right To Be Alarmed
The danger of Trump's nominees is that the main condition of employment—aside from being on Fox—is their fealty to him.
51m Nov 25, 2024
51m
Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: The Lonely Boy Club
The country is now paying for the pathologies of the oligarchs and baddies who were stuffed into lockers when they were kids.
58m Nov 22, 2024
58m
Sam Harris: Our Democracy Is Already Unraveling
Because Trump wasn't penalized for trying to steal the 2020 election, our democracy has already been damaged.
58m Nov 21, 2024
58m
Marc Caputo and Dan Goldman: Trump v. the United States
The incompetent and compromised nominees Trump has assembled at record pace show how little regard he has for the essential functions our government provides.
54m Nov 20, 2024
54m
Jen Psaki: Don't Speak to Me
The Democrats focus too much on reaching white college-educated voters, and the threat to democracy was not the right closing message.
41m Nov 19, 2024
41m
Bill Kristol: A Power Play for Autocracy
Trump is flooding the zone with nominees who would destroy government norms and standards and create the kind of chaos that would let him do what he wants.
50m Nov 18, 2024
50m
Amanda Carpenter: Lessons from the Tea Party Era
Ted Cruz and Jim DeMint ground things to a halt in the Senate quite effectively during the Obama era, and Democrats should take a cue from them for Trump's appointments: Demand hearings or hold their own.
48m Nov 15, 2024
48m
Rick Wilson and David Brooks: MAGA to the Max
Trump's appointments—like degenerate Matt Gaetz and Putin stooge Tulsi Gabbard—are about his raw power and his stupid show, but are also a risk to our nation's security and institutions.
52m Nov 14, 2024
52m
Osita Nwanevu: Democrats Need A Better Story
Republicans have been good at telling a story about the economy and how people should feel about it, and Democrats haven't responded in a sufficiently compelling way.
53m Nov 13, 2024
53m
Jon Lovett: The Worst People Are Happy
The worst people believe their worldview has been validated, while the best people are uncertain, scared, and angry.
53m Nov 12, 2024
53m
Bill Kristol: A Pro-Putin America First
The Trump team is moving quickly to sell out Ukraine, but it's not clear yet whether Putin would settle for taking a quarter of the country—or if he intends to crush it, so he can plant the Russian flag in Kiev.
40m Nov 11, 2024
40m
BONUS EPISODE with James Carville: We Are the Opposition
It's time to get our opposition organized and develop a narrative about Trump. And one narrative that's likely to emerge is how he betrayed his voters.
25m Nov 09, 2024
25m
Ben Wittes: Americans Elected a Serial Criminal to Be President
The Trump trials were a cosmic democratic disaster, and the justice system did not do justice: Trump was not treated in the same way as other people who've stolen classified docs or tried to overthrow the election—and his conviction and indictments made him more qualified in MAGA's eyes.
48m Nov 08, 2024
48m
Tom Nichols: This Is What They Want
The American people made their choice, and the fight to preserve the global democratic coalition against the global authoritarian movement continues.
47m Nov 07, 2024
47m
Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: Election Debrief
Kamala's tailored campaign message and ground game didn't matter.
1hr 11m Nov 06, 2024
1hr 11m
David Frum: Pride in the Fight
Whatever happens tonight, Never Trumpers and voters should be proud that we rose to the challenge of Trump—and that a majority of Americans see through this fraudster.
44m Nov 05, 2024
44m
Bill Kristol: Maybe It's Dobbs, After All
Republicans are crowing about a big turnout of early rural voters and a decrease in African American voters in the cities.
40m Nov 04, 2024
40m
Ann Selzer: How Could This Be?
Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has leapfrogged over Trump to take the lead there.
21m Nov 03, 2024
21m
Mehdi Hasan: Memory-Holing the Worst President
The WSJ wants readers to think that Trump is too stupid to coup—despite Jack Smith's indictment showing a very clear plan.
55m Nov 01, 2024
55m
Adam Kinzinger: All the Little Bros
Trump and his pack of dude-bros are pitting men against women, even inside the home—the current Republican Party is definitely not pro-family or pro-marriage.
47m Oct 31, 2024
47m
Alex Vindman and Lakshya Jain: No More Petty Tyrants
The character of the nation is on the line: We have to stop an autocratic minority from imposing its will on the majority of Americans.
1hr 5m Oct 30, 2024
1hr 5m
Robert Draper: The Prosecutor
Kamala Harris sees the world as divided between those who follow the rules and those who break them—and that injustice requires action, not whining.
46m Oct 29, 2024
46m
Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol: It's Already Happening Before our Eyes
By de-prioritizing The Washington Post in his business empire, Jeff Bezos is showing exactly how a free press gets dismantled.
50m Oct 28, 2024
50m
Bret Stephens: Pray Kamala Wins
Trump is corrosive to the soul of our democracy. He's a bigot, an ogre, and an isolationist.
52m Oct 25, 2024
52m
David French: 2017 Trump Is Gone
A whole faction of Red America thinks the judges and tax cuts in the first half of Trump's presidency were the 'real' Trump.
52m Oct 24, 2024
52m
Jeffrey Goldberg and Catherine Rampell: The Un-American
Donald Trump doesn't share our values or our norms, and he wants the privilege of being able to shoot down Americans in the street.
1hr 3m Oct 23, 2024
1hr 3m
Mitch Landrieu and Will Saletan: Trump Lives in the Mud
The ex-POTUS has resolved that his route to regain power is creating hate, fear, and anger.
53m Oct 22, 2024
53m
Mallory McMorrow and Bill Kristol: Imagining a World Where Trump Is Irrelevant
Remember those few weeks when Trump ceded the stage to Kamala and didn't do any campaigning? How glorious it was not to have to talk about him.
53m Oct 21, 2024
53m
Live from Philadelphia (Again)
The Bulwark kicked off its weekend 'Swing State Swing" in the City of Brotherly Love Thursday before a packed house.
47m Oct 18, 2024
47m
Bob Woodward: The Threat Is High
Since the release of Woodward's "War," Gen. James Mattis has reached out to the journalist to endorse the book's warnings about Trump, and to urge that they not be downplayed.
38m Oct 17, 2024
38m
Susan Rice and Mondaire Jones: The Dictator Hugger
Amb. Rice says Trump is a "surrender monkey" who is all about building up and benefitting Russia and China for his own benefit—and to the detriment of our national security.
52m Oct 16, 2024
52m
Tom Nichols: He's Bait for the 25th Amendment
Trump's fitness for office is a central question now more than ever after his bizarre town hall Monday night, where instead of taking questions, he called out songs, bopped, and swayed—for 39 minutes.
57m Oct 15, 2024
57m
BONUS EPISODE with Jason Calacanis: The Civil War in Silicon Valley
Trump used to be considered an existential threat throughout Silicon Valley, but now the tech world is split between Mark Cuban and Reid Hoffman on one side, and Elon and David Sacks on the latter.
45m Oct 15, 2024
45m
Bill Kristol: He's Not Hiding the Authoritarianism Anymore
Trump's authoritarianism has intensified—with his calls for using military force against political opponents, taking away broadcast licenses, and deporting even legal immigrants.
41m Oct 14, 2024
41m
Susan Glasser and Jared Polis: Shaking Up the Holdouts
Barack Obama made a direct appeal to people who don't like Trump, but may end up voting for him anyway.
50m Oct 11, 2024
50m
David Axelrod: Change Agent
Voters have a real hunger for something beyond the constant state of pugilism and the weaponizing of every problem.
47m Oct 10, 2024
47m
James Carville: We Just Have to Win
The information ecosystem is getting crazier than ever: The monster Trump created must be fed, even when the lies are too much for some MAGA members of Congress.
42m Oct 09, 2024
42m
Timothy Snyder: The Politics of Impotence
Trump and Vance are pioneering a form of politics where American power means nothing, everything is bad, and politicians focus on tearing people down—and getting other Americans to do the same.
47m Oct 08, 2024
47m
Bill Kristol: The Musk of it All
Do not sleep on this: The billionaire tech bros are on board with the authoritarian project so they can capture the regulatory state.
51m Oct 07, 2024
51m
BONUS EPISODE with Doug Emhoff: We Have a Mission
The second gentleman says Kamala has really stepped it up for this abbreviated campaign, and is showing the country the most badass version of herself.
25m Oct 04, 2024
25m
John Dickerson: Hero Story
Liz Cheney sticks to her values under incredible pressure in an old-fashioned Republican way.
54m Oct 04, 2024
54m
Kaitlan Collins: Still Surreal
Jack Smith's filing on Jan 6 reads almost like a novel—with Trump shrugging about Pence having to be evacuated, mocking true believer Sidney Powell, and implicating himself with a damning phone-data footprint.
40m Oct 03, 2024
40m
Jim Messina and Michael Weiss: Midwestern Nice
The Harris campaign clearly opted not to send out an attack dog in last night's debate.
55m Oct 02, 2024
55m