Adam Kinzinger: It's Starting to Happen
Boos at a Republican town hall in Fulton County, and boos at the White House: We're beginning to see signs of people refusing to be ruled by unelected billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs.
49m Feb 21, 2025
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David Graham and Pablo Torre: Is Lil Marco a Cuban Communist Agent?
If Marco Rubio was NOT playing the long game masquerading as a patriotic neocon who gets placed in the State Department to then give Russia everything it wanted, what would he be doing differently?
59m Feb 20, 2025
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Crypto should be one of the biggest stories out of the Trump administration, but the crypto guys are really good at making it seem more complicated than it is.
57m Feb 19, 2025
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Susan Glasser: Giving Away the Store to Putin
Trump is A-OK with all the murder and mayhem Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, and he's making a mockery of all his enablers who claimed he'd do a Reagan-esque kind of deal. Instead, Ukraine wasn't even invited to the "peace" talks, while Trump tries to impose an extortion deal on the Ukrainian people for daring to fight back against the Russian invasion.
53m Feb 18, 2025
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Bill Kristol: Taking A Wrecking Ball to the Government
Firing air traffic controllers over a busy holiday travel weekend, cutting a veterans crisis hotline, axing and then rehiring people who maintain and keep our nuclear arsenal safe: Musk and his minions aren't trying to "fix" the government.
37m Feb 17, 2025
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Andrew Weissmann and Michael Weiss: Valentine's Massacre
Unlike the cowardly Republican senators who are rolling over in the face of Kash Patel's bald-faced lies, the men and women of the Justice Department are taking their oaths of office seriously by refusing to comply with a blatantly political order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
56m Feb 14, 2025
56m
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift
While Elon claims he's storming the government to cut waste, he's also getting himself a big fat check for $400 million from the State Department for Tesla armored vehicles—though administration officials are now trying to hide the grift because the Trump glow does not extend to the weird dude.
52m Feb 13, 2025
52m
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations
If Republican senators had any shred of dignity left, they'd demand that Kash Patel answer why he brazenly lied under oath to them about the purge of agents at the FBI.
1hr 8m Feb 12, 2025
1hr 8m
Tom Malinowski: Fight the Power, Dems
The Democratic Party was made for different times, when rules were followed. But to preserve the basic power of Congress, and to prove that the Constitution is worth the paper it's printed on, the troublemakers in the Dem caucus have to get busy fighting over tariffs and a looming budget deal.
58m Feb 11, 2025
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Bill Kristol: The Law Be Damned
The new administration has been routinely breaking the law, including late on Friday when it announced it was cutting funding for universities doing medical research—specifically in violation of legislation passed in Congress last year.
48m Feb 10, 2025
48m
Ezra Klein: The Resistance, Back from the Dead
Partly because of the courts and partly because the White House keeps stepping on rakes or trying to break everything, the Dems who were too chill about Trump pre- and post-election have fully moved into 'threat to the Republic' mode.
57m Feb 07, 2025
57m
Michael Steele: Gum Up the Works
After the dumbest member of the Senate, Tommy Tuberville, was able to block military promotions for months during the Biden administration, Dems should not back down from slowing the roll of Kash and the other remaining abominable nominees.
50m Feb 06, 2025
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Ben Stiller: 'Severance,' but Real Life
With Elon's 20-something operatives running the Treasury Department, it's hard not to feel that we've been severed from reality and a better Earth someplace else.
1hr 2m Feb 05, 2025
1hr 2m
Anne Applebaum: Outside the Rule of Law
If the Chinese hacked the U.S. government the way private citizen Elon has, it would be a major act of cyber warfare. And since Elon is a government contractor, he's now in a position to make policy calls that benefit his own companies and hurt his competitors—following the Russian oligarch model.
57m Feb 04, 2025
57m
Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome: A Crime Boss Has Taken Over
The president of the United States is putting his Jan 6 accomplices in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI, and clearing out any officials who would be willing to investigate the administration.
1hr 12m Feb 03, 2025
1hr 12m
Andrew Weissmann: A MAGAtocracy and a Babytocracy
While Republican senators worked to protect Kash Patel from answering some ver-wee hard questions at his confirmation hearing, not one of them had the audacity to suggest that he is the best person to lead the FBI.
54m Jan 31, 2025
54m
Tommy Vietor: Deniability Is All That Matters
Republican senators don't care that Trump's nominees are lying—like Kash pretending he didn't know a Nazi-adjacent podcaster whose show he's been on eight times—because the confirmation process to them is all a game and truth is irrelevant.
1hr 5m Jan 30, 2025
1hr 5m
Mona Charen: A Moment of Truth
Trump is trying to seize powers he doesn't have—like unilaterally rewriting laws and deciding on his own how he wants to spend money Congress appropriated for a particular purpose.
41m Jan 29, 2025
41m
Chris Hayes and Alex Kantrowitz: Trying To Break the Whole Thing
The directives putting a pause on federal grants and the firing of career DOJ prosecutors is about trying to make the entirety of the federal government the tool of the man occupying the presidency.
1hr 9m Jan 28, 2025
1hr 9m
Bill Kristol: Trump Loves Fraud
Gullible Republicans have really been proving what they're made of recently, including Susan Collins, who claims Trump wants to root out corruption, even though his whole life has been a fraud—the water, the university, and "The Apprentice," just for starters.
50m Jan 27, 2025
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David French: Vengeance and Rage
Trump launched his first week back in office signaling to loyal followers that they are free to break the law on his behalf, while telling political opponents—including John Bolton and Mike Pompeo—that he'll put their lives at risk.
1hr 2m Jan 24, 2025
1hr 2m
Sam Stein and Adrian Carrasquillo: We Are in a Simulation
Emotionally-stunted video game boys, who are also government contractors and/or quasi government officials, are fighting on Twitter, a POTUS who went all the way to SCOTUS to get immunity for presidents now would like the last president investigated, and America's premiere scientific research institution, the NIH, can't tell us about the bird flu—a widespread and potentially deadly virus that c...
59m Jan 23, 2025
59m
Stephanie Ruhle: Unlimited Money and No Rules
All those CEOs cartwheeled down to Mar-a-Lago and then dutifully lined up at Trump's inauguration because they were fed up with social justice warriors and labor having more power—even if their bottom lines were never harmed in the process.
46m Jan 22, 2025
46m
Tom Nichols: A Farce and a Sham
Trump tried to pencil out literal words in the Constitution and then freed 1,500 violent insurrectionists—while the media attempted to normalize it all.
59m Jan 21, 2025
59m
Bill Kristol: Resist the Nihilism
Trump wants us to believe that nothing matters, so we'll brush off all his corruption and grifting as though everybody does it.
44m Jan 20, 2025
44m
Ron Brownstein: Don't Take the Bait
Trump governed as a wartime president against blue America, so expect him to keep stirring up culture battles—but the Dems have to avoid getting drawn into them.
50m Jan 17, 2025
50m
Melissa Murray and John Avlon: The Dark Legal Clouds Ahead
Pam Bondi is likely to sail to confirmation—even if she's an election denier and pretends she was born yesterday—because she meets the simple qualifications of being a lawyer and former prosecutor, and because she's not a frat paddle come to life i.e. Matt Gaetz.
57m Jan 16, 2025
57m
Adam Kinzinger and Mark Kelly: Dirty Little Secret
Being secretary of defense is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. But after Pete Hegseth was plucked from a part-time Fox & Friends gig, Republican senators could only kiss his ass and act starstruck during his confirmation hearing—all to ensure he takes their calls when they need military equipment or contracts in their states.
1hr 4m Jan 15, 2025
1hr 4m
Peter Hamby: The Politics of a Firestorm
Real estate is everything in Los Angeles. Karen Bass's absence from the city when the fires broke out, and now her seeming aloofness, has instantly made her look unfit for the job of mayor.
1hr 7m Jan 14, 2025
1hr 7m
Bill Kristol: Cannons All the Way Down
Trump's favorite judge, Aileen Cannon, has been attempting to exercise authority she doesn't have over Jack Smith's required report on his investigations of the Jan 6 case and the hoarding of classified docs—but she'll be a model of loyalty that Trump will expect for all his judicial appointments.
52m Jan 13, 2025
52m
Amanda Carpenter: We Are Team Karen (Pence)
"Mother" Pence is owed an apology. She snubbed Trump so hard and so beautifully at Jimmy Carter's funeral—and wasn't about to make nice with the man who was all-in on Jan 6 rioters trying to lynch her husband.
56m Jan 10, 2025
56m
Derek Thompson and Elizabeth Weil: The Trend Toward Solitude
Americans have been spending more time alone—and less time doing face-to-face socializing—than we have for at least 60 years.
1hr 13m Jan 09, 2025
1hr 13m
Liam Donovan and Brendan Boyle: The Great Grift
Trump talked a lot more about Hannibal Lecter during the campaign than one of his actual top priorities: extending his 2017 tax cuts.
1hr 6m Jan 08, 2025
1hr 6m
Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks Up to Trump
Mark Zuckerberg is doing all he can to get an audience with the big man at Mar-a-Lago, including praising Trump's (faux) free speech bona fides and restructuring Meta to eliminate fact-checking.
56m Jan 07, 2025
56m
Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI
Kash Patel's Jan 6 lie requires FBI officials to have been able to see into the future: to *know* that Trump would lose in 2020 and then try to get Congress to reverse the election results.
51m Jan 06, 2025
51m
Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City
New Orleans is the most special city in America, but it's a place that also breaks your heart.
44m Jan 03, 2025
44m
David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism
Apart from the death and carnage on New Years Day in New Orleans, Americans revealed another darkness once again: an eagerness to pin violence on someone who doesn't share their political world view.
51m Jan 02, 2025
51m
Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission
While some media outlets may be moving to accommodate Trump out of fear he'll target them, The Bulwark will not be recalibrating.
1hr 3m Dec 31, 2024
1hr 3m
Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts
MAGA v DOGE, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, is an early sign of the coming infighting that could diminish Trump's power—we're definitely not seeing signs of an iron fist amid all that golfing and DJ-ing at Mar-a-Lago
48m Dec 30, 2024
48m
'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral'
Do you have to pick a side in politics? That was the question Reason Magazine, the flagship publication of the libertarian movement, invited The Bulwark to debate.
1hr 23m Dec 27, 2024
1hr 23m
Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible
While it's still going to be bad, for the first time since the election we're beginning to see that we may actually have a little fun watching these idiots prove they don't know how to govern.
1hr 5m Dec 20, 2024
1hr 5m
Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government
We are seeing in real time what it looks like to turn a democracy over to an oligarch, namely the unstable guy from South Africa who thinks he's going to be emperor of the universe.
45m Dec 19, 2024
45m
Mark Hertling: Putin's Weakness
Russia is on its weakest footing since it invaded Ukraine: Putin has destroyed his military, his economy is in the toilet, and the North Korean troops who've been deployed to help out are dying in waves on the battlefield. Why would the US bail Putin out?
46m Dec 18, 2024
46m
Tom Nichols: Don't Descend into Darkness
The existential dread has a strong pull, especially since Trump has made a lot of Americans worse people, but we've had other bad, immoral, and creepy presidents who've sullied the office.
58m Dec 17, 2024
58m
Bill Kristol: Fake Nicey-Nicey Sh**t
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have joined the preemptive capitulation parade by settling Trump's defamation suit—and by conspicuously paying out protection money ahead of the inauguration.
37m Dec 16, 2024
37m
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime
The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine the rule of law—is often very bad for business.
43m Dec 13, 2024
43m
Matt Yglesias and Tyler Austin Harper: Popularism v Populism
The origins of the Democratic party's current malaise include ineffective messaging on climate and economic policy, too rigid a tent on cultural issues, and Dem politicians just too scared to speak their mind.
1hr 8m Dec 12, 2024
1hr 8m
Adam Kinzinger and Pat Ryan: Bring It On
Team Trump is trying to intimidate the opposition. Stop showing them your fear.
1hr Dec 11, 2024
1hr
Susan Glasser: A Lame Lame Duck
A sense of Biden's irrelevance has descended on Washington, with Trump flying off to Paris and meeting world leaders, and also openly conducting his own foreign policy—often at odds with the current US policy.
50m Dec 10, 2024
50m
Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss: Catastrophic Success
Trump is threatening members of Congress with jail and GOP senators may be circling the wagons around his nominees, but we still need to protect ourselves from a nihilistic mindset.
57m Dec 09, 2024
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