The Bulwark Podcast
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The Bulwark Podcast
Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "bo...
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Michael Steele: Tripped up by Their Own Lies
The men serving Trump are so used to getting away with punking people, including too many members of the media, that they sometimes walk into a trap t...
Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps
While ICE is still murdering people in the streets, more than 60,000 people are currently being held in ICE detention centers across the country. The...
Pete Buttigieg: Time for Radical Change
Democrats tend to defend the institutions that Trump is tearing apart, but Pete Buttigieg says the party should be focusing on the bigger, deeper stru...
Bill Kristol and Ro Khanna: Two Governments Acting with Impunity
The Trump administration is going full speed ahead on its authoritarian project to intimidate the media and the business world—and to gun people down...
Stuart Stevens: We've Got Death Squads on Our Streets
The Trump administration desperately wants the public to just tune out the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE agents in Houston. But this...
Ben Wittes: Talk About America in Decline
Trump had to take two Air Force ones to the NATO summit in Turkey: his new bling Qatari hand-me-down that he wanted to show off and the old baby blue...
Alex Wagner: ICE Is Still Killing People
Roughly 2,000 people a day are being swept up by ICE and put in subhuman conditions. And Stephen Miller's quotas likely contributed to the recent trag...
Piers Morgan: Polishing Trump's Turds
After being a guest on Piers' show numerous times, Tim gets a chance to pin him down for answers. Like, how could he have ever thought Trump in his se...
Bill Kristol: Trump Wants All-out Kleptocracy
POTUS went on a stock buying spree the day before he paused some of his tariffs last year. The markets rebounded on his tariffs' reversal. On Monday,...
Clint Smith: Make America What It Set Out to Be
It's hard to be in a celebratory mood about America 250. The administration only wants to tell a narrow story of the country without all the contradic...
Susan Glasser: Our Money-Grubbing President
Not only did Trump pocket $2.2 billion last year—vastly increasing his pre-presidency wealth—he shamelessly showed off his new hand-me-down plane from...
Maggie Haberman: A Gross and Messy White House
Trump leaves ice cream cartons, potato chip bags, and candy wrappers all over his personal space at the White House. His diet aside, his aides are wor...
David French: The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Should've Been 9-0
SCOTUS did manage, for now, to stop Trump from recreating the American republic, but four of the court's justices believe that the fundamental law of...
John Dickerson: When the Media Helps Rewrite Reality
The most powerful person in the world repeatedly creates his own narrative about a news event despite what we can see and hear with our own eyes and o...
Jane Coaston: POTUS's Racism Notches Another Win
The "eating the cats and dogs" blood libel worked so well that SCOTUS agreed to end humanitarian protections for Haitians. Justice Alito, who complain...
Tom Nichols: Trump's Trashy 250 Celebration
The POTUS speech to kickoff the "state fair" in honor of America's 250th year was all about how the country is great because of him. Meanwhile, Hegset...
Peter Hamby: How Far Can the DSA Go?
The Mamdani sweep in NYC shows that the populist left is winning the arguments about Israel policy and going after billionaires, but it sure seems lik...
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved
The era of hell that we are living through may have been ordained in the 90s by angry Republican voters who felt screwed by the corporate elite—and po...
Bill Kristol: Call the Pool Police
Trump is so embarrassed by his own personal vandalism of the Reflecting Pool that he's got the Justice Department investigating his latest conspiracy...
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Obama's Legacy in a Trump World
Obama never thought Trump could win in 2016, perhaps because he underestimated how much the opposition loathed him. At the opening of his new presiden...
Adam Kinzinger: Trump Is a Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey
Donald Trump gave away the store in the second worst treaty signed at Versailles. The bounty POTUS delivered has already started to flow with the lift...
Krystal Ball: The MAGA Neocon Tears Are So Sad
The pro-Israel hawks are still reeling from the terms of Trump's initial deal with Iran, which grants access to funds that had been frozen because of...
Michael Weiss: The Vice President Is Looking Pretty Stupid
Vance is trying to sell the administration’s initial deal with Iran as a signal that the regime is ready to end its reign of terror and join the commu...
Bill Kristol: Trump’s Weak, Sad, and Embarrassing Weekend
POTUS humiliated himself and our country with a peace “deal” that strengthens Iran’s hand and apparently pays billions to the regime—which it can use...
Jon Favreau: Why Aren't More People Talking about Nipple-Gate?
The vice president of the United States called a meeting in the Situation Room last year to discuss the administration's cover-up of the Epstein files...
Anne Applebaum: Trump's Firehose of Lies
Trump shifts his position on the Iran war so often that it sure looks like he is using the same propaganda technique that Putin uses with abandon: Flo...
Raphael Warnock: Fight for Your Democracy
Donald Trump knows he is on target to lose the midterms, so he's busy laying the groundwork now for challenging the outcome in the fall. That's why he...
Jason Calacanis: The Silicon Valley Vibes Are Still Pro-Trump
Trump's approval rating may be near record lows, but tech tycoons and powerhouse CEOs are still all-in with bending the knee to Trump and bearing him...
Bill Kristol: Make It the Summer of Epstein
Todd Blanche did one singular thing that particularly pleased Donald Trump: He organized and executed the Epstein cover-up. Democrats must ruthlessly...
Stephanie Ruhle: The Trump Family’s Massive Side Hustle
The corruption in the Trump administration is so shameless and so abundant that neither the media nor regular people can keep up. While Ivanka’s purch...
Jonathan V. Last: We Got a Billionaire Problem
Most of the multibillionaires are not only hoarding their money and failing to contribute to the public good, they're also using their wealth-based po...
Luke Russert and Josh Turek: There Is a Vast Rightwing Conspiracy
After "60 Minutes" veteran Scott Pelley was fired, he said that the new management at CBS News had instructed him to put false information in his poli...
Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing
Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immoralit...
Bill Kristol: Trump Is All-In on Authoritarianism
Another weekend passed without a promised Iran deal. Despite reporting to the contrary, Iran’s negotiators don’t live in caves, and they’re not intere...
Lis Smith: A Very Vengeful President
Tim just happened to quote from an official Iranian news agency about how the regime is cleaning up in their negotiations with the Trump administratio...
Kara Swisher: The Tech Bros Should Just Shut Up
Bezos, Elon, Andreessen and the whole lot are such terrible, tiny, greedy people. They blow off the public’s concerns about AI while living apart from...
Robert Kagan: A Total and Complete Shutdown of Trump
The United States lost the Iran war back in March when Trump chickened out and didn’t retaliate against Tehran once it proved it could inflict economi...
Eddie Glaude: Don't Let MAGA Own America's 250th Anniversary
As we barrel towards July 4th, Trump wants the celebration of our country's 250th anniversary to be not only about him but also about America as a whi...
Bill Kristol: Trump's Iran Disaster Is Also a Defeat for the U.S.
The master negotiator couldn't have been more clear how badly he wants out of his war, and now the Iranians are enjoying twisting the knife over a mur...
Mike Murphy: The Sh*t Is Sticking to Trump
Trump's killing off of John Cornyn's political career was the last straw for Senate Republicans, who magically found the courage—for the moment—to opp...