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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John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started
Only six months ago, the wheels felt like they were coming off of America, and our democracy experiment. But since the Epstein case broke wide open, t...
Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files
The DOJ is releasing random Epstein documents to distract the public, while also intentionally covering the faces of men in images. It's also pulling...
Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot
After a campaign built on the promise that Trump was going to look out for his voters, he started his administration getting sidetracked by DOGE and M...
Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment
The year started with America's tech overlords kissing the ring at Trump's inauguration, and it's ending with the public fed up with the ostentatiousl...
Tom Nichols: The Buzz Has Worn Off
Six months ago, MAGA world was strutting around with their chests puffed out. But now, many of them are having a blue Christmas over the infighting, t...
Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up
On the Epstein matter, the current DOJ is not just putting its thumb on the scale for Trump. It's his defense team. Make no mistake: The top two offic...
David Frum: Trump and Epstein Were Best Friends
Of all the images of Trump, the only times he seemed to be authentically smiling in the presence of another person was when he was with Jeffrey Epstei...
Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon
Trump's power of persuasion is failing him on the affordability issue. He even broke MAGA creed on live TV by calling on Americans to trust the word o...
Catherine Rampell and Michael Steinberger: Trump Wants to Cook the Books
POTUS is firing or censoring the statisticians who collect data on health and climate, as well as the kind of experts who could verify his lofty claim...
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
The people running the Republican grassroots are nativist populists, and it’s a space where opposition to Israel thrives, along with a heaping serving...
Bill Kristol: A Weekend of Tragedy
From the shooting at Brown University, to the Oct. 7-style slaughter in Australia, and the shocking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife—it’s been one bl...
Alyssa Farah: Trump's Big L in Indiana
Despite death threats and harassment, Republicans in Indiana delivered the biggest political setback to Trump since officials in Georgia wouldn’t help...
David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers
Republican disunity is being obscured by affection for Trump, but just below the surface, MAGA is being pulled apart at the seams. At the same time, t...
Neera Tanden: America's 'Daddy' Is in a Rut
Big Boss Trump, who claims the power to run the whole government via executive order and pushes all our allies around, is a man suddenly with no agenc...
Mark Hertling: Trump (Still) Hates Europe
Heaping scorn and disdain on Europe, Trump called its countries decaying and its leaders weak, but the U.S. likely needs Europe more than they need us...
Bill Kristol: This Is Not Democratic Government
ICE and Border Patrol are kidnapping people in the suburbs near New Orleans based on racial profiling—it’s like the South of 70 years ago. Mini Greg B...
Tommy Vietor: The 'Peace' President
Trump is overseeing extrajudicial killings off the coast of Venezuela but nothing was going to stop him from getting a peace prize—even if it’s a fake...
Sam Stein: We Got Ourselves a Mad King
Trump’s use of his pardon power is downright crazy, and that’s not even counting his rescue of a convicted drug kingpin. He’s also sabotaging his own...
Jonathan Lemire: A Bubble-Wrapped Trump
Trump’s rallies have been his signature event, but since he returned to the White House, he has stopped doing them. And his allies are worried he’s lo...
Olivia Nuzzi Breaks Her Silence
There are no shortage of scandals plaguing Washington D.C. right now.
One that has captivated much of the political and med...
Project 2025 Is Coming Back To Bite Trump
As a candidate, Trump knew to steer clear of Project 2025. But as president, he embraced its deeply unpopular policy goals and it has been driving dow...
Bill Kristol: A Kleptocratic, Autocratic Cabal
Not only are the opportunities for personal financial gain for Trump and his White House cronies driving the administration’s foreign policy decisions...
George Packer: Trump Was a Symptom
Americans were already losing touch with basic decency before Trump came along—and he exploited that indecency, distrust, and division to win power. I...
Andrew Weissmann: Just Release the Damn Epstein Files
Trump needs to quit the games and his defamatory accusations about who's in the Epstein files, and just release the 300 gigabytes of data from the Eps...
Michael Weiss: Trump's Ukraine Cluster**ck
A troika of foreign policy amateurs—Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and JD Vance—are trying to impose a Russia-drafted peace plan on Ukraine. While Trum...
Bill Kristol: The Cracks in Trump's Power Are Showing
Unrest has broken out in MAGA, and Mike Johnson looks like he’s losing control of the House—which means that Trump could be losing control of the part...
Adam Kinzinger: Trump Has Never Seemed this Scared
As a man who’s not used to losing, Trump is going through a bit of a rough patch since his party turned against him over the Epstein case. He’s flaili...
Susan Glasser: Our Grotesque, Corrupted Oligarchy
Tim Cook and the other tech titans who dined with bone saw murderer MBS—and who’ve given millions to Trump to knock down our history for his gilded ba...
Kamala Harris: This Is Our Country
Before a live audience in Nashville Tuesday, Kamala Harris discussed what it takes to fight back against Trump. But she also threw punches—against the...
Jonathan Karl: The White House Chaos Is Worse This Time
The White House leaks may be more contained in Trump 2.0, but the slavish loyalists who POTUS has surrounded himself with do nothing to keep him withi...
Bill Kristol: Fight on All Fronts
Not a lot of people predicted that Trump would fold and let Congress vote on the release of the Epstein files. But his retreat shows that Democrats ha...
David Frum: This Is Shame-Faced Trump
Our commander-in-chief and breaker of mores can only muster the energy to beg Republicans to stop talking about Epstein. Where is the blustery guy who...
Alex Wagner: Team Trump Can't Get Its Epstein Story Straight
Trump's involvement with Epstein is simultaneously a "hoax," but he was also a "perfect gentleman" when he spent hours with one of Epstein's underage...
Mikie Sherrill and Michael Fanone: Full-Time Criming and Corruption
New Jersey’s governor-elect credits her big win last week to an affordability message—and ignoring the pundits. But Sherrill also tied rising costs an...
Chris Hayes: Trump Has Become 'The Establishment'
While Trump won the first time as an anti-status-quo hero, the low-trust podcast cranks like Rogan and Tim Dillon who put him back in the White House...
Will Saletan: Sorry, but the Democrats Won the Shutdown
The very online crowd is very upset, but Dems did fight like Republicans. This was a longer shutdown than anything the Tea Party pulled and real pain...
Jessica Tarlov: Republicans Are in the Barrel
Our economy may be in the early days of stagflation, Democrats are winning the shutdown fight, and Republicans aren't getting help from the tariff kin...
Jonathan V. Last and Carol Leonnig: The Danger of a Weakened Bully
Trump took it on the chin in Tuesday's elections, SCOTUS sounds skeptical about his tariffs, and his plan to 'gerry-rig' the midterms looks like it is...
Dave Weigel: Now That's a Landslide
The huge Democratic wins in Virginia, New Jersey, NYC, and California spoke loud and clear—and make Trump’s 2024 supposed ‘landslide’ margin of 1.5% l...
Andy Beshear and Terry Moran: The Power of Normal People
With Trump slashing SNAP benefits, Gov. Beshear is asking the people of Kentucky to look out for their neighbors so they don't go hungry—since the adm...