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The Bulwark
The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, Catherine Rampell and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good faith.
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The BulwarkThe Trump Administration Is on a Legal Losing Streak
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Ben Parker give their takes on why the DOJ abruptly withdrew its…
The BulwarkSarah Longwell and Alex Seitz-Wald: The Maine Thing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com In 2026, everyone who follows politics has an opinion about Maine politics…
The BulwarkWe Asked GOP Lawmakers About Their Own Nominee. Watch Them Bolt.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer break down the double standard at the heart of the…
The BulwarkTrump Invents His Own Iran War Polls Because the Real Ones Suck
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Andrew Egger give their takes on Trump's new threats of war…
The BulwarkGeorge Conway Is Back—and Trump Gave Him PLENTY to Work With
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell welcomes George Conway back to The Illegal News to discuss…
The BulwarkDavid Frum and JVL: Iran Is Going to Make Trump Eat It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump keeps promising more bombs and bigger explosions in Iran, but the regime…
The BulwarkWatch Rubio Laugh as Trump's Iran Story Falls Apart
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan breaks down how Donald Trump’s empty threats, reckless boasts…
The BulwarkSen. Slotkin: Trump Is Desperate to Escape His Iran War | Command Post
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Ben Parker are joined by Senator Elissa…
The BulwarkMAGA Said The Odyssey Would Flop. Whoops!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just pulled in $124.5 million over its opening…
The BulwarkThis Deranged New Campaign Ad Creeped Us Out!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah, JVL, and False Flag author Will Sommer (sitting in for Tim) discuss: *…
The BulwarkBREAKING: GOP Senators May Turn on Trump’s Attorney General Pick
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Sam Stein and HuffPost's Arthur Delaney as they cover the brewing…
The BulwarkJoe Scarborough and Sam Stein: MAGA Doesn't Get America
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Ronald Reagan said it best: One of the greatest sources of America's greatness…
The BulwarkMorning Shots: Pentagon Hid Extent of Americans Wounded in Iran Attacks
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger went live to cover CNN's reporting that Trump…
The BulwarkWill Saletan’s Insane Amount of Trump Knowledge Finally Paid Off
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Brendan Hartnett and Will Saletan put their encyclopedic knowledge of Donald…
The BulwarkSarah Longwell and Bill Kristol: We're Governed by Broken Men
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump tried to steal the limelight and the valor of Spain at the World Cup…
The BulwarkMAGA Mondays: Trump Refuses to Leave World Cup Trophy Ceremony
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Sommer and Sam Stein went live to cover Trump refusing to leave Spain’s…
The BulwarkThe Anti-Strategic President (w/ Hal Brands)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Eric welcomes back friend of the show Professor Hal Brands, the Henry A…
The BulwarkLiz Oyer Testified Against Blanche. Republicans Changed the Subject. | Bulwark on Sunday
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Bill Kristol and former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer as they discuss…
The BulwarkHow Badly Has Trump Botched the Iran War?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Mona Charen and Eric Edelman examine how Trump stumbled into the Iran war…
The BulwarkTwo American Soldiers Killed as Trump’s Iran War Spirals
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) take on the deadly Iranian strike…
The BulwarkSenators Never Asked Blanche the Most Obvious Epstein Question (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com On a week that tested both of them, Sarah and Andrew discuss: Todd Blanche's…
The BulwarkDavid French: Character Counts For Less
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com American politics and politicians are decidedly lower-character than they used…
The BulwarkRep. Jim Himes: Tuberville is "participating in a coup d'etat"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein speaks with Rep. Jim Himes about Trump’s election speech, his…
The BulwarkTrump Voters Say JD Vance Gives Them the Willies
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Sam Stein (filling in for JVL) discuss Trump’s tedious (and…
The BulwarkNicolle Wallace: The Sore Loser Is Trying to Ruin Our Elections
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The one presidential election Trump lost was when he was in power and in…
The BulwarkReceipts: Trump Found a New Way to Profit Off the Presidency (w/ Justin Wolfers)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Catherine Rampell and Justin Wolfers as they cover the week's biggest…
The BulwarkCan Subsidies Bring Film Production Back to the USA?
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by Chris Fenton to discuss efforts to pass a federal tax credit that would help reshore American film production and his…
The BulwarkCoverage of Trump’s Prime Time Speech
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Sarah Longwell and Sonny Bunch as they cover Trump's July 16, 2026 prime…
The BulwarkTrump’s Own People Don’t Want Him to Give This Speech (w/ Erin Banco)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein speaks with Reuters national security reporter Erin Banco about…
The BulwarkMichael Steele: Tripped up by Their Own Lies
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The men serving Trump are so used to getting away with punking people…
The BulwarkCommand Post: Trump Flip Flopped So Fast That Mark Hertling Had to Scrap an Article
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Ben Parker take on the Pentagon's bizarre…
The BulwarkThe Trio: The “Reporter” Covering Mitch McConnell’s Hospital Stay Has a CRAZY Backstory
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Buckle up. It’s the last Trio video of July—and it’s a big one. The guys start…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Senate Grills Todd Blanche on Epstein, Slush Fund During Confirmation Hearing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Sam Stein, Bill Kristol and Will Saletan as they cover the Todd Blanche…
The BulwarkJonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com While ICE is still murdering people in the streets, more than 60,000 people…
The BulwarkCait Conley: Mike Lawler Bent the Knee to Trump. Now I’m Coming for His Seat.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Lauren Egan speaks with Democratic congressional candidate Cait Conley about…
The BulwarkSarah's Latest Focus Group Almost Broke JVL's Brain
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The whole gang is back together, for the last time until August. Tim, Sarah…
The BulwarkSome Democrats Want Ben Wikler to Run the DNC. Watch His Answer.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein speaks with Ben Wikler, former chair of the Wisconsin Democratic…
The BulwarkTrump’s Insane Strait of Hormuz Shakedown Lasted One Day
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on Trump's rare triple L: his 20% Strait of…
The BulwarkMorning Shots: Epstein Survivors and the Blanche Hearing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Bill Kristol and Ben Parker (filling in for Andrew Egger) as they cover…
The BulwarkPete Buttigieg: Time for Radical Change
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Democrats tend to defend the institutions that Trump is tearing apart, but…
The BulwarkEpidemiologist’s Warning: STOP Buying Bagged Salad for Now
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jonathan Cohn talks with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina about the…
The BulwarkBill Kristol and Ro Khanna: Two Governments Acting with Impunity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Trump administration is going full speed ahead on its authoritarian…
The BulwarkMAGA Right is Consumed by Conspiracy Theories About Lindsey Graham's Death | MAGA Mondays
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on the conspiracy theories surrounding Lindsey…
The BulwarkNATO's Annual Circus Comes to Turkey
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Eric and Eliot catch up for the first time in a month after returning from…
The BulwarkNobody Asked. Trump Brought Up His 3 Cognitive Tests Anyway
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein takes on Trump's escalating war on the press: subpoenas targeting…
The BulwarkTommy Vietor: Democrats’ Way Forward on Israel
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Many Democratic primaries in 2026 have been hashing out America’s relationship…
The BulwarkRepublicans Just Bucked Trump by Accident...and Nothing Happened
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joined the Deadline: White House panel to discuss Trump’s failed…
The BulwarkWe Found Decades of Video of Trump Defending Accused Sex Predators
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller take on Donald Trump’s decades-long habit of…
The BulwarkTrump Did What? (Evergreen Tweet.)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah and JVL are back together, looking at Trump’s NATO disgrace, wondering…
The BulwarkStuart Stevens: We've Got Death Squads on Our Streets
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Trump administration desperately wants the public to just tune out the…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Trump Shivs GOP Congress, Refuses to Sign Bipartisan Housing Bill | Receipts Live
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Catherine Rampell is joined by special guests from Yale's Budget Lab, Natasha…
The BulwarkHow the Screen Has Changed Us
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by renowned critic and film historian David Thomson to discuss his new book, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist…
The BulwarkMAGA Influencer Blames Antifa for His Own Alleged Sex Crime | The Trio
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein, Tim Miller and Will Sommer take on the week's weirdest stories…
The BulwarkTrump's Own Judge Torched DOJ's Insane Election Subpoena (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Andrew Weissmann joins Sarah Longwell to discuss a big week in legal news…
The BulwarkBen Wittes: Talk About America in Decline
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump had to take two Air Force ones to the NATO summit in Turkey: his new…
The BulwarkTrump, Platner, and the Mistake America Keeps Making
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Democrats swore they'd never do what Republicans did with Trump. Then came…
The BulwarkJD Vance Sucks. So How Did He Get This Far?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Tim Miller take on JD Vance's rough day in Wisconsin: playing…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Graham Platner Ends Campaign for U.S. Senate
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Catherine Rampell went live to cover the breaking news that…
The BulwarkICE Shot and Killed a Man in Houston
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Adrian Carrasquillo take on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado…
The BulwarkAlex Wagner: ICE Is Still Killing People
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Roughly 2,000 people a day are being swept up by ICE and put in subhuman…