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The Bulwark Daily
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 "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy.
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Episodes
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David French: Kansas Hopium
Is it possible Adam Hamilton could be the first Democratic senator elected from Kansas in 94 years? A major new poll is raising hopes there—and in other key…
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Harry Enten and Julian Borger: Voting with Fear and Loathing
Trump's (surprisingly) current favorite pollster shares what he's seeing in the numbers less than one week before Election Day. The first sign of what kind of…
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Sarah Matthews and Pablo Torre: The Pedophile Protection Party
Democrats offered a glimpse of the accountability that's likely coming over the Epstein cover-up: new allegations of rape against Trump and evidence that…
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Bill Kristol: Beating Back the Authoritarians
There was good news over the weekend on the anti-authoritarian front in Brazil and Serbia, while our wannabe autocrat is ominously threatening to not accept…
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Jamelle Bouie: The World's Most Influential Racist Is Bankrolling Republicans
Elon Musk is the largest single donor in American political history. He's also the world's most prominent booster of white supremacy. While Democrat after…
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Adam Kinzinger: Who Should Be Forced to Testify First?
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are already divvying up how to investigate Musk, the one-time shadow president who's still making foreign policy…
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Mike Murphy and Mark Hertling: Vivek Is a Despicable Creep
Could there be a bigger sign of Ramaswamy's depravity and desperation than using a mother from hell to sell your message? His campaign for governor of Ohio…
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Michael McFaul: Trump Is Just 'Fine' with Mass Murder
Though they deny any involvement, the Trump administration and Elon Musk are apparently helping Putin escalate his campaign of terror against Ukraine. Civilian…
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Bill Kristol: You Can't Hide Your Lyin' Eyes, JD
The vice president had the gall to suggest he didn't know anything about what millions of Americans know: that Trump is using his office to enrich himself and…
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Alan Cumming and Robert Garcia: The Traitors Running Our Government
For more than 10 years, Trump has been showing us how skilled he is at sowing division and riling people up. Alan sees the kind of tribal mentality that Trump…
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George Conway: Subpoenas Are Coming
Mike Johnson sure sounds afraid of what might come out when the House—under Democratic control—actually does its job and investigates the corruption of this…
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Roy Cooper and Noam Scheiber: We Gotta Rein Trump In
Elon is now pitching in to help POTUS sabotage Ukraine while Trump makes a payout to Putin and works on his next self-enrichment scheme. A Cooper victory in…
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Susan Rice: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It
Americans are living in a more dangerous world now because of Donald Trump. Not only because of his now-expanding war in the Middle East, but also through his…
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Bill Kristol: The Paxton Nightmare Is Costing Republicans Big Time
Not only did the lamest of October surprises blow up in the faces of Ken Paxton and the rightwing loons desperate to get Talarico on something, Greg Abbott is…
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Derek Thompson and Adam Carlson: The Republicans' Strength Is Now Their Weakness
While the cult of Trump is dragging Republicans' popularity down, the Democrats have good, ideologically diverse candidates running all over the place. And…
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Susan Glasser: Trump Has a Man Problem
The king of the birther conspiracy knows he needs to round up the white male vote, so he's serving up one of his old faves—straight-up anti-Muslim bigotry. And…
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Angie Nixon: People Power
Florida's Democratic nominee for the Senate says average Americans right now are living in the dreams of oligarchs and the super-rich, and it's time for…
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Michael Lewis: Don't Bet Against the Country
Destroying trust in the government is one of Trump's key sources of power, but Michael reports from the front lines of the deep state that there still are good…
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Bill Kristol: Throw the Bums Out
Like all good demagogues, Trump's appeal works when he's got someone to blame. But it's on his watch that we've got a war-related global food crisis brewing…
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Tommy Vietor: The Marionette in the White House
What is going on with Trump's legs? He appears to be wearing a brace and a recent video shows him standing in a most unnatural way—as though he is…
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Josh Barro and Jonathan V. Last: The Patriotic Cowboys Wrecking Our Economy
Finally, some accountability in Washington: Sen. Eric Schmitt’s general counsel and poster-holder is in career limbo after the infamous basketball mix-up in…
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Maria Comella and The Trio: Holy Schmitt, That Was Bad
The Trio comes together on the daily pod for the first time to give a little taste of the MAGA-land news Sam, Will, and Tim are covering for The Bulwark. The…
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Amanda Carpenter and Evan Gershkovich: Trump's and Putin's Authoritarian Projects
Vigilance is still in order, but Trump’s efforts to rig the midterms have so far flopped. And that includes Trump’s self-sabotaging of his own plan to blame…
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Bill Kristol: They're F*cking Thieves
The Trump administration stole our tax dollars to run a campaign ad during NFL games on Sunday. They're also breaking the law on congressional funding…
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Alex Wagner: An Unlawful Administration
Trump pulled out all the stops at the state dinner to regale the guy who is working with our enemy: Not only has China been helping Iran target and kill…
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Sam Stein and Mary Peltola: Cozying Up to Commies and Corporate Elites
First, Sam Stein sits down with Tim to discuss the latest humiliation of our troops: Trump’s red carpet welcome for President Xi. Plus: the White House’s…
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Sarah Matthews and Jason Horowitz: Trump Propaganda and Italian Fascism
The cozy White House Correspondents' Dinner, where Trump joked around with reporters, was only in July. But now he's ripping away press credentials and setting…
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Stuart Stevens: Republicans Are Desperate
The party has been busy playing defense in Trump states, and now comes the news that Susan Collins is corrupt on top of being a loyal MAGA supplicant. More…
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Andrew Egger: Donald, You’re Rattled
As Trump’s war of choice continues to expand in the Middle East, it’s clear that the president is desperate not to show how weak he really is. The…
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Anne Applebaum: Globalized MAGA Kleptocracy
In Greenland, the Trump administration has got tech bros and hedge fund guys running an influence operation there. The aim may be to fulfill Trump's…
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Wright Thompson and Jesse Lehrich: Hopium and Hate
Republicans are reeling, the vibes are shifting, and the wave is building. Jesse serves up a particularly optimistic view of the Democrats' chances in the…
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Catherine Rampell and Stephen Witt: Can We Avert Economic Disaster and the Robot Apocalypse?
The Fed raised interest rates to curb inflation, as expected, but mortgage rates are surging and flailing Scott Bessent remains the treasury secretary…
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Jonathan Swan: We Only Know 5%
The co-author of the signature book inside Trump 2.0 says the media only knows 5% of what is happening inside the administration—particularly when it comes to…
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Bill Kristol: It Always Comes Back to Trump/Russia
A Putin bestie who's involved with the kidnapping of Ukrainian children bankrolled Don Jr.'s island wedding for some mysterious reason. Kushner is calling on…
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Mehdi Hasan: 9/11's Fallout 25 Years Later
Rudy Giuliani and others who purport to represent the families of 9/11 victims ginned up the idea that it would be wrong for the Muslim mayor of NYC to attend…
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Sarah Longwell and Pedro Gonzalez: Meet the Young MAGA Edgelords—and the One Who Got Away
As Sarah explains in her new book, Trump has been so successful teaching a new generation of Republicans about the political value of vice signaling that Nazi…
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Jessica Tarlov: POTUS Needs Some Moral Support
With Republicans in tight races stripping Trump’s name off their campaign websites, the president is in need of some love from Republicans he has summoned to…
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Adam Jentleson and Pablo Torre: This Country Is Being Scammed
From politics to sports, business, and tech, the rich are breaking the rules, looking out for their friends, and still getting rewarded in the end—maybe with…
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Bill Kristol: A Blue Wave vs. the Toxic Red Tide
With just under two months until Election Day, Tim and Bill revisit the run-up to the midterms in 2006 and 1994, two major wave election cycles where the…
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David French: MAGA Is Making America Less Free
Marco Rubio is using dubious powers to create a new class of immigrant political prisoners. Meanwhile, DHS officials are bragging about how they're brutally…
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Jonathan V. Last: How Much Stupid Can We Possibly Take?
Thom Tillis was the pivotal vote to confirm a buffoon to run the Department of Defense, and now he’s shocked about Hegseth’s incompetency. JD wants everyone to…
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Michael Weiss: The Clown Car at the Pentagon
The Army is currently operating without any Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders at the top. For Navy secretary, Trump is nominating an…
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Ruby Cramer: The Power of MAHA
Vaccine skepticism and distrust of pharmaceutical companies long predated RFK, Jr.'s 2024 presidential campaign. But the distrust of mainstream medical…
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Bill Kristol: Keep Up the Pressure, Dems
Trump’s war is far from over, top military leaders are warning Hegseth that prolonged ops in the region are unsustainable, and Americans have been financing…
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Ben Rhodes: Is Trump Stumbling into a Wider War?
The wars in Iran and Ukraine are increasingly entangled, CIA Director John Ratcliffe had to personally deliver a message to Moscow, and Trump is driving our…
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Sam Stein Used to Be a Thief
We’ve hit the August doldrums, so Tim is taking the daily pod on a little excursion. The Bulwark community delivered some epic mailbag questions, one of which…
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Neera Tanden: How to Win
The only likely way to end the nightmare of Trump—and Republicans supporting him no matter how much he ruins the country—is for Democrats to win in…
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Tracy Alloway and Will Sommer: A Cabinetful of Clueless Grifters
Yield curve control has gone mainstream (seriously, just ask the Asheville Beatnik with a message for Scott Bessent), so Tracy Alloway is here to explain the…
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Bill Kristol: The Weak Bully Keeps Flailing
Canada flat-out rejected Trump’s terms in trade talks, so now it looks like we are going to have a trade war with our friends in the Great White North. Sorry…
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George Conway: For Trump, Harp Strikes a Chord
Melania had to come out of hiding and practice her English after days of embarrassing coverage of Trump aide Natalie Harp. And now Harp’s newly released…
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David Wallace-Wells: The Politics of AI Are Shifting in Real Time
Mark the summer of 2026 as the moment when an unlikely supermajority of Americans came together on one issue: their opposition to data centers. This new, big…
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Julia Curlee and Errin Haines: Cowards Are Running This Country
When Trump came back into power, his administration leaned heavily on former CIA analyst Julia Curlee to help safeguard our national security. The first CIA…
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Tom Nichols: Impotence at the White House
Trump is flailing so badly on Iran. He dispatched Jared Kushner to negotiate with the regime but then denies that any talks are happening at all. He also…
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Andrew Egger: Trump’s Travels with Natalie
Thanks to a shrewdly-timed Jon Ossoff campaign event, a lot more people are suddenly learning about young and blonde Trump confidante Natalie Harp AKA ‘the…
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Sarah Longwell: Dems, Go on Offense FFS
When Graham Platner’s campaign was imploding, Republicans made sure to hang him around every Democrat's neck. Now, Democrats need to make Republicans own Rep…
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Adam Kinzinger: The United States of Dystopia
What a way to run a country: ICE thugs will soon have special gloves that deliver an electric shock to people they’re trying to detain; D.C. residents have to…
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Dave Weigel: Polls Wrong, Hong Gone
Democratic primary voters in Wisconsin didn’t care much for how hard Republicans were working to try to make democratic socialist Francesca Hong the Dems'…
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Amanda Carpenter: Audit the White House
Trump may have the pardon power, but all those people making bank off of shady contracts from the administration or doing pay-to-play can lose all that money…
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Bill Kristol: Republicans Are a Mess
The party is sticking with Max Miller despite the very credible domestic abuse allegations. Not only is this a gift to his Democratic opponent, Brian…
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Susan Glasser: The Irredeemable Republicans
Tim got his hopes up that Bill Cassidy was going to come out against Blanche as AG. But of course, the senator showed once again that Republicans will do…