Amanda Carpenter: The Authoritarian Playbook
How Trump would follow through on his anti-democratic promises.
52m Jan 19, 2024
52m
Complete and Total Immunity
No, American presidents don't need to be able to commit crimes to do their job.
41m Jan 18, 2024
41m
Tina Nguyen: The MAGA Diaries
The inside story of the grassroots effort to recruit young soldiers for the conservative movement.
46m Jan 17, 2024
46m
A.B. Stoddard: Dead Ends after Iowa
Can the criminal defendant preaching to the choir juice a wider electorate?
42m Jan 16, 2024
42m
Will Saletan: The GOP Surrenders before First Vote
Republicans race to bend the knee while looking like they want border chaos.
58m Jan 15, 2024
58m
Karen Tumulty: The World's Biggest Victim
While Trump preps to be a victor in Iowa, his campaign narrative goes full victim.
37m Jan 12, 2024
37m
The MAGA Pathology
Chris Christie dropping out shows that one party is at war with the idea of democratic self-government.
39m Jan 11, 2024
39m
Mark Hertling: Defending American Values
While North Korea jumped in to arm Russia, the GOP dallies over supporting Ukraine.
41m Jan 10, 2024
41m
Tim O'Brien: The Most Corrupt President. Ever.
Trump hopes for a market crash, vows revenge, and plots his next Oval Office grift.
40m Jan 09, 2024
40m
Will Saletan: Erasing History
Jan 6 rioters are innocent, and the Art of the Deal guy could've taught Lincoln how to negotiate an end to the Civil War.
55m Jan 08, 2024
55m
Tom Nichols: Claudine Gay Had to Go
Harvard was protecting its academic standards and the institution itself.
53m Jan 05, 2024
53m
What Will the Supreme Court Do?
SCOTUS will have to take up the insurrectionist clause that's getting Trump removed from state ballots.
47m Jan 04, 2024
47m
Susan Glasser: The Fever Won't Break
We're not going back to the status quo before Trump's presidency.
42m Jan 03, 2024
42m
Will Saletan: The Guts to Tell the Truth
Christie is not dropping out because Nikki is not the one we've been waiting for.
45m Jan 02, 2024
45m
The Day After: The Night My Father Scared America
A.B. Stoddard shares how her dad and a film helped change the course of history.
24m Dec 22, 2023
24m
Sam Wasson: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
Coppola lives the film to make the film—like a Method actor behind the camera.
41m Dec 21, 2023
41m
Yair Rosenberg: Israel Is Not a White Colonial Project
Applying American ideas about racial identity to Israel makes for lazy analysis.
54m Dec 20, 2023
54m
Anne Applebaum: The Irreparable Damage of a Second Term
America's role in the world if Trump is reelected.
36m Dec 19, 2023
36m
Will Saletan: Trump Is Anti-America
On the stump in New Hampshire, Trump parroted Putin condemning the American political system.
40m Dec 18, 2023
40m
Ready for 2024?
It was a year of heroes and zeros, highs and lows, and shocks and fizzles.
59m Dec 15, 2023
59m
Jack Smith Calls Trump's Bluff
The special counsel is short-circuiting Trump's foot-dragging strategy.
41m Dec 14, 2023
41m
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
Democrats used to be the party of the common man and woman.
54m Dec 13, 2023
54m
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