David Frum: A Dark Path
If Trump wins, the first crime of his second term will be perjury—when he swears to defend the Constitution.
42m Dec 12, 2023
42m
Will Saletan: Political Delusion
Kevin swears that Trump will stop with the retribution talk.
50m Dec 11, 2023
50m
Tim Alberta: American Idolatry
Is the Almighty, who made heaven and earth, also biting his nails over next year's election?
39m Dec 08, 2023
39m
A.B. Stoddard: No One Feared Kevin
And now no one is afraid of Mike Johnson—so he won't be able to lead either.
47m Dec 07, 2023
47m
Liz Cheney: A Clear and Present Danger
Donald Trump will never be the lesser of two evils.
30m Dec 06, 2023
30m
Philip Bump: The GOP Stumbles Towards Impeachment
The smoking gun is a dud, but James Comer and Republicans move ahead on their evidence-free Biden impeachment inquiry.
42m Dec 05, 2023
42m
Will Saletan: The #MeToo Fail
Both-sidesing the sexual violence against Israeli women and girls has only added to the horrors of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
54m Dec 04, 2023
54m
Adam Kinzinger: Why Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse
Trump wants to weaponize the office of the presidency, and who would stop him?
42m Dec 01, 2023
42m
The Banality of Crazy
From Elon to Trump to Kanye, public decompensation is a part of our culture now.
42m Nov 30, 2023
42m
Michael Steele: The GOP's Humiliation Kink
This is the era of political humiliation.
46m Nov 29, 2023
46m
David French: It's a Cult
Don't underestimate the power of the belief that Trump is part of a prophecy for many evangelicals.
49m Nov 28, 2023
49m
Will Saletan: Trump’s Pee-wee Herman Moment
Trump wants you to know that he remembers who the president is.
53m Nov 27, 2023
53m
Amir Tibon: Terrible Choices for Israel
Hamas triggered the Gaza war, and signed the death warrants of thousands of Palestinians.
48m Nov 24, 2023
48m
We Are Living in a Post-Rational World
A disconnect from reality has descended on the US.
43m Nov 22, 2023
43m
Karen Tumulty: The Sununu Effect in New Hampshire
Non-MAGA is showing up for Haley and Christie in contrarian New Hampshire.
39m Nov 21, 2023
39m
Will Saletan: The Annihilation of Truth
We are in an age where internet randos are beating out reality.
56m Nov 20, 2023
56m
The Bulwark Live, with Brian Stelter
Fox launched the Big Lie based on a random email from a woman in Minnesota who heard voices in the supermarket.
37m Nov 17, 2023
37m
Too Crazy for Rudy
One person we can be certain will not be called as a witness in Georgia: nutty Sidney Powell.
46m Nov 16, 2023
46m
Peter Wehner: A Polite Zealot
We may have averted a government shutdown for the moment, but the new speaker of the House believes dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark.
43m Nov 15, 2023
43m
George Conway: Trump Knows He's a Criminal
Deep down, Trump knows the truth, and is running again to stay out jail—just like authoritarian leaders do in other countries.
35m Nov 14, 2023
35m
Will Saletan: Punish the Vermin
Very powerful and strong Donald Trump is promising his supporters the freedom to go after the people they don't like if he returns to the White House.
47m Nov 13, 2023
47m
Flooding the Zone
Jack Smith's office filed an epic motion this week laying out the central role of Trump's lies in the election subversion case.
45m Nov 10, 2023
45m
A.B. Stoddard: Insane and Surreal
Trump wants to melt the constitutional order, but NBC didn't bother to ask the also-rans about that at their debate.
44m Nov 09, 2023
44m
Greg Lukianoff: The Canceling of the American Mind
Now that the anti-Zionism bias on campus is clear, the left may be rethinking their claims about cancel culture.
47m Nov 08, 2023
47m
Cassidy Hutchinson: Why I Testified
Cassidy Hutchinson joins Charlie Sykes to discuss her break with Trump world, speaking truth to power, and steering herself back to the right side of history.
42m Nov 07, 2023
42m
Will Saletan: Don't Panic
Recent polls have some Democrats reverting to bed-wetting, Christie calls out the deplorables, and Scalise is an election-denying weasel.
49m Nov 06, 2023
49m
Tim Miller: Trump Keeps Telling Us
Trump glorifies insurrectionist prisoners and Bannon-world is using Confederate code words. But too little of the media is covering the radicalizing language.
48m Nov 03, 2023
48m
McKay Coppins: The Last Temptation of Mitt Romney
Romney's journey from the party's standard-bearer to pariah is also a story of the transformation of the GOP.
40m Nov 02, 2023
40m
Insurrection and Its Consequences
A Colorado case will determine whether Trump should be kept off the ballot there because of that annoying little insurrection issue.
48m Nov 01, 2023
48m
Adam Kinzinger: Renegade
The former congressman says he wasn't always fighting the good fight, and that he feels some responsibility for the GOP's descent into dysfunction.
40m Oct 31, 2023
40m
Our Exhausted Politics
The biggest danger to democracy is simple exhaustion.
47m Oct 30, 2023
47m
Josh Kraushaar: The Pro-Hamas Left
Most Democrats support Israel, but a very loud, younger segment on the left is lending its support to the terrorist group Hamas.
39m Oct 27, 2023
39m
The Bulwark: Live from New Orleans
Sarah, Mona, and Sonny join Tim in The Big Easy to talk about new Speaker Mike Johnson, Biden, Israel, and left-wing antisemitism.
43m Oct 26, 2023
43m
Flipping Is in the Air
Jenna Ellis will not be the last flip in Georgia, ex-Trump water carrier Michael Cohen testifies about the fudged books, and the confusing case of Mark Meadows.
43m Oct 25, 2023
43m
Jonathan Martin: The Antibodies Resisting the Virus
Remnants of the pre-Trump party are hanging on to challenge MAGA and Jenna Ellis shows her loyalty to Trump.
39m Oct 24, 2023
39m
The GOP Is a Failed State
House Republicans don't have a platform, and in the absence of Trump, they can't pull together.
43m Oct 23, 2023
43m
John Avlon: Is the Center Finding Its Spine?
Republican threats and bullying have finally gone too far when it comes to Jim Jordan.
44m Oct 20, 2023
44m
A Bad Day for the Kraken
Sidney Powell pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the state in Georgia—Trump's legal woes just took a turn for the worse.
48m Oct 19, 2023
48m
Ryan Reilly: The Sleuths Who Helped Nab Jan 6 Rioters
Ordinary Americans pored through reams of digital evidence to ID hundreds of Capitol rioters.
44m Oct 18, 2023
44m
Kara Swisher: Jim Jordan, Legislative Terrorist
Jim Jordan spent the weekend bullying moderates, but threatening shame on social media and Fox may not be enough.
39m Oct 17, 2023
39m
Will Saletan: Don't Forget Who Jim Jordan Is
Jordan was not just another Republican who voted against the election—he was in strategy meetings plotting how to keep the election's loser in power.
44m Oct 16, 2023
44m
Tom Nichols: Testing the System 'Til It Breaks
The Republicans elevated fringe players who have no interest in governing, and now they don't have enough members to get the House functioning again.
54m Oct 13, 2023
54m
An Undue Risk of Conviction
Jack Smith signaled he will be able to prove why Trump held onto the classified documents.
42m Oct 12, 2023
42m
Susan Glasser: A Superpower in Crisis
The U.S. is knee-deep in the war in Ukraine, and now another potentially enormous war in the Mideast may draw us in.
40m Oct 11, 2023
40m
Steve Inskeep: Kevin Is No Lincoln
Lincoln's political skills were a key part of his legacy, but the politics he practiced were not like today's base-oriented version.
43m Oct 10, 2023
43m
Will Saletan: Israel's 9/11
The attack by Hamas on Israel was barbaric, but the incursion—by land, sea, and air—was also sophisticated.
47m Oct 09, 2023
47m
The GOP’s Rubik’s Cube for Morons
The Republicans have been on a trajectory to get a Jim Jordan-style speaker for 11 years, and the Democrats couldn’t have stopped it.
49m Oct 06, 2023
49m
The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus
The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus is running the GOP. Plus, Giuliani's drinking may undermine Trump's defense in the Jan 6 case. It's The Trump Trials.
39m Oct 05, 2023
39m
Tim O'Brien: The Hollow Men
Kevin McCarthy aspired to the speakership for his resume, not because of legislative talents.
41m Oct 04, 2023
41m
Dana Milbank: The Chair Was Already Vacant
Kevin McCarthy hasn't been doing much of anything all year as speaker, except lurching from crisis to crisis and leading from behind.
38m Oct 03, 2023
38m