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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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Episodes
The BulwarkTrump Takes Credit for a Walmart Sale. Again.
Catherine Rampell gives her take on Donald Trump's latest attempt to claim credit for Walmart's routine discounts, treating a standard retail promotion like a…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Confused Trump Stumbles Through Bizarre NATO Event | 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 went live to cover Trump’s press…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Trump Is Bombing Iran Again
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump's Versailles peace deal feels truly dead. Iran fired missiles at tankers…
The BulwarkEven Marjorie Taylor Greene Doesn’t Buy the McConnell Story
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim, Sarah, and Sam Stein (filling in for JVL) take on the political stories…
The BulwarkPiers Morgan: Polishing Trump's Turds
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com After being a guest on Piers' show numerous times, Tim gets a chance to pin…
The BulwarkTrump Thinks He Belongs on Mount Rushmore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump spent America's 250th birthday celebrating one person…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Horrific Allegations Against Graham Platner Put Future in Doubt
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller are going live to cover POLITICO's bombshell…
The BulwarkBill Kristol: Trump Wants All-out Kleptocracy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com POTUS went on a stock buying spree the day before he paused some of his…
The BulwarkMAGA Mondays: MAGA Blames Liberals For July 4th Weather
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 the week’s craziest stories from…
The BulwarkBREAKING: McMorrow Drops Out of Michigan Senate Race
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan and Jonathan Cohn take on the shakeup in Michigan's Senate race…
The BulwarkTrump Forces Fans to Wait 4 Hours in Storm for His Ego Trip
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump's massive America 250 celebration was supposed to be a patriotic…
The BulwarkHow America’s 250th Looked From Europe (w/Jay Nordlinger) | Bulwark on Sunday
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jay Nordlinger joins Bill Kristol for Bulwark on Sunday.Read Jay's Substack…
The BulwarkA Belated Appreciation of John Adams
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Historian Lindsay Chervinsky discusses her book on our second president, John…
The BulwarkTMZ Sent Paparazzi After Congress—and DC Loves It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined by TMZ DC’s Charlie Cotton and Jacob Wasserman to talk…
The BulwarkHeather Cox Richardson: America's 250 Great (and Awful) Years
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com If you're wondering how (and whether) America is worth celebrating on this…
The BulwarkWhy Tim Miller Loved Mamdani's July 4th Speech
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on Trump's 327 unreported stock trades made the day before…
The BulwarkClint Smith: Make America What It Set Out to Be
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com It's hard to be in a celebratory mood about America 250. The administration…
The BulwarkIt's 100x Worse Than Watergate—and Republicans Still Won't Quit
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol (filling in for JVL) take on America’s 250th…
The BulwarkComcast and NBC Universal Are Breaking Up: What Does That Mean?
This week I’m joined by CNN’s media analyst Brian Stelter to discuss the big news of the week, Comcast’s decision to spin NBC Universal off into a separate…
The BulwarkTrump’s America 250 Event Is LITERALLY Falling Apart
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined Jared Poland and Brendan Hartnett after they spent time…
The BulwarkSusan Glasser: Our Money-Grubbing President
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Not only did Trump pocket $2.2 billion last year—vastly increasing his…
The BulwarkJD Vance Tried a Few Jokes in Front of the Troops. It Went Badly.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer take on the lewd "Uncle Sam" court battle to get…
The BulwarkStephen Miller Goes on Unhinged Rant After Supreme Court Loss
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Supreme Court left birthright citizenship intact, but the bigger story may…
The BulwarkDog the Bounty Hunter Is Now a MAGA Keynote Speaker
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller and Will Sommer take on the Great American State…
The BulwarkMaggie Haberman: A Gross and Messy White House
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump leaves ice cream cartons, potato chip bags, and candy wrappers all over…
The BulwarkMAGA is Furious at Amy Coney Barrett
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Georgetown University Law Center's Steve Vladek discuss the…
The BulwarkCommand Post: Why Are Trump’s Top Officials Still Using Signal?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Ben Parker as they cover the latest on…
The BulwarkThis Texas Poll Has Tim Miller Feeling Hopeful
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller recaps his appearance on Deadline: White House with Nicole…
The BulwarkTrump Will Put a Psycho on the Court—If He Gets a Chance
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah, Tim, and Andrew Egger (filling in for JVL) discuss:-The Supreme Court's…
The BulwarkDavid French: The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Should've Been 9-0
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com SCOTUS did manage, for now, to stop Trump from recreating the American…
The BulwarkSam Stein and Brian Tyler Cohen
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Brian Tyler Cohen cover the day's news and discuss BTC's new…
The BulwarkGOP Senator Cassidy Nukes Trump, RFK Jr, and Pulte
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan gives his take on Sen. Bill Cassidy's remarkable CBS interview…
The BulwarkRepublicans Could Have Stopped Trump. They Didn’t. (w/ Jeff Flake)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake joins Sarah Longwell for his take on the…
The BulwarkJohn Dickerson: When the Media Helps Rewrite Reality
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The most powerful person in the world repeatedly creates his own narrative…
The BulwarkBREAKING: SCOTUS Hands Trump Two Major Losses, One Win (w/ Kyle Cheney)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein, Andrew Egger, and Politico's Kyle Cheney go live to break down the…
The BulwarkIran Threatens Nukes. Trump Posts About Statues and Fountains.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan takes on Trump's unraveling Iran war—drone strikes on U.S…
The BulwarkLiz Oyer on Todd Blanche, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Former Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer joins Bill Kristol to discuss Todd Blanche…
The BulwarkMel Brooks: 100 Year Old Legend
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sonny Bunch and Catherine Rampell take on Mel Brooks' 100th birthday and AFI's…
The BulwarkThis Reporter Calls Trump—And He Answers! (w/ Ed Luce)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Mona Charen and FT columnist Ed Luce dig into Giorgia Meloni's public dressing…
The BulwarkMAGA Influencer Accused of Doing the Unthinkable at Trump’s State Fair | The Trio (Minus One)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and Will Sommer to give their takes on one of the strangest weeks…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Trump’s Ceasefire May Already Be Dead
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the collapsing Iran ceasefire—Iranian drones hitting ships…
The BulwarkKyle Clark: Colorado's Mad Libs
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Colorado isn't much of a swing state anymore, but we're covering its primaries…
The BulwarkSomeone Did an Awful Thing to Pete Buttigieg's Family
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller went on MS Now to talk to Nicolle Wallace to give his take on one…
The BulwarkThe Last Temptation of Sarah Longwell
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com It’s a special show this week where JVL gives Sarah a series of impossible…
The BulwarkJane Coaston: POTUS's Racism Notches Another Win
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The "eating the cats and dogs" blood libel worked so well that SCOTUS agreed…
The BulwarkThe Increasing Entanglements of Hollywood and AI
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Ben Fritz of the Wall Street Journal to discuss his exclusive on the partnership between Google and A24 and what it…
The BulwarkTrump Lied About His Crowd Size—Again
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Will Sommer give their takes on Trump’s kickoff event for the America…
The BulwarkTom Nichols: Trump's Trashy 250 Celebration
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The POTUS speech to kickoff the "state fair" in honor of America's 250th year…
The BulwarkTrump Isn’t Policing the World—He’s Looting It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan takes on Donald Trump’s vision of American power, arguing that…
The BulwarkBREAKING: SCOTUS Allows Trump to Deport Hundreds of Thousands of Haitian and Syrian Refugees
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Jonathan Cohn discuss the major SCOTUS decision that would allow…
The BulwarkThe Reflecting Pool is a Symbol of Trump’s Failure (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell and Andrew Weissmann talk about the Iran nuclear deal—why the…
The BulwarkLive Coverage of Trump's Freedom 250 Rally
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Sam Stein, Will Sommer, Andrew Egger and Bill Kristol as they cover…
The BulwarkPeter Hamby: How Far Can the DSA Go?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The Mamdani sweep in NYC shows that the populist left is winning the arguments…
The BulwarkBREAKING: Trump Suddenly Cancels Plans to Sign Bipartisan Housing Bill
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Andrew Egger, Catherine Rampell and Joe Perticone went live to cover Trump's…
The BulwarkCommand Post: Republicans Rebuke Trump Over Iran, Vote to End War
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Join Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) and Ben Parker as they cover the week’s…
The BulwarkTrump’s Deportation Agenda Awaits SCOTUS—With Grandma at Risk
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jonathan Cohn takes on Trump's push to end temporary protected status for…
The BulwarkJD Vance Called His OWN Iran Policy “Complete Idiocy”
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim is sick, but he’s strapping on his football helmet. Tim, Sarah, and JVL…
The BulwarkTrump's Intel Pick Wanted to Take America's Secrets Home (w/ Sen. Mark Warner)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sen. Mark Warner joins Sam Stein for his take on the chaos surrounding acting…
The BulwarkJohn Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The era of hell that we are living through may have been ordained in the 90s…
The BulwarkDeSantis Picked the Wrong Fight in Miami Beach
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jonathan Cohn reports from South Beach on the fight over a beloved LGBTQ…