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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
The Bulwark DailyMark Leibovich: Democrats Are Too Afraid of Hurting People’s Feelings
Most Democratic politicians are scared to criticize each other. They also fear dinging former presidents, or the various groups that make up the party’s broad…
The Bulwark DailyRick Wilson: The Shamelessness of MAGA
From FCC Chair Brendan Carr—who keeps trying to silence the political opinions of late night TV comedians, to DHS pressuring social media companies to expose…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: The Administration’s Stupid Ethnonationalism
The white Anglo-Saxon supremacy in Trumpland is so over the top that even child-of-Cuban-immigrants Marco Rubio claims America’s common cultural heritage is…
The Bulwark DailyScott Galloway: Time to Send a Message to the CEOs
In addition to protesting and voting, we have another option hiding in plain sight against this administration: our economic power. Scott says resistance…
The Bulwark DailyAdam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won
ICE failed in its operation in Minnesota because the people would not bend to their terror campaign. Minneapolis residents also maintained incredible…
The Bulwark DailyBen Wittes: A Defiant Ukraine
Trump may keep telling Ukrainians their country is about to collapse, and Putin may keep bombing their power plants—leaving them miserably cold during one of…
The Bulwark DailyJane Coaston: The Epstein Revelations Keep Getting Worse
Not only did Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick go to the Epstein island, a sultan from the UAE, who sent a “torture video” to Epstein, also attended Trump’s…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: MAGA's Grievance Culture
Trump of course hated Bad Bunny's halftime performance, but even he wasn't running the Turning Point alternative at Mar-a-Lago. And a couple of Olympic skiers…
The Bulwark DailyDavid French: Our State of National Shame
Trump casually posted a racist video and the White House essentially told Americans to calm down. Convicted felons are being treated better than rounded-up…
The Bulwark DailyMarty Baron: Behind the Washington Post’s Demise
The massive layoffs at Jeff Bezos's Washington Post involve more than just the financial situation at the paper. The Amazon founder's real priority is keeping…
The Bulwark DailyRobert Kagan and Marianne Williamson: Slipping Into Dictatorship
Donald Trump is going to do everything he can to hold onto his near monopoly on power after the midterms. Beyond his scheme to invoke the Insurrection Act…
The Bulwark DailyWill Stancil: The Heroes of Minneapolis
From dads standing guard at school doors, to Costco moms delivering food to people afraid to leave home, and to the ICE spotters patrolling the streets—…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: The MAGA Elites Are Such Frauds
JD originally made a name for himself as an economic populist but now spends all his time lying and ignoring the woes of the white working class. Stephen…
The Bulwark DailyMichael Steele: A Petty, Punk-Ass President
In the wake of the massive winter storm, the power is still out in some places, trees are down, and the death toll continues to rise. And where is FEMA? Don’t…
The Bulwark DailyTa-Nehisi Coates: This Is Armed Identity Politics
Trump has decidedly built a white supremacist army within the government. And this was always the risk when the Department of Homeland Security was created…
The Bulwark DailyAdam Serwer and Bobby Pulido: MAGA Got Proven Wrong
The mass deportation operation was supposed to be about the manly men pulling out all the stops in defense of Western civilization, which they claim is being…
The Bulwark DailyGov. Tim Walz and Jason Zengerle: The Assault on Minnesota
The deployment of dangerous, untrained, and violent federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis met its match in a massive, organized, nonviolent resistance…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: The Murder of Alex Pretti
The Trump administration’s version of the Stasi murdered Alex Pretti in cold blood because he was exercising his First Amendment right to peacefully assemble…
The Bulwark DailyMike Murphy: We’re Living in a Nightmare
Trump is taking billion dollar bribes for his ‘Board of Peace,’ where he can pretend he’ll be the head of a new world order in partnership with Putin. He’s…
The Bulwark DailyFiona Hill: Putin and the Art of Manipulating Trump
Donald Trump is so enamored with Vladimir Putin he doesn't even know the Russian leader is regularly making fun of him in ways that can’t easily be translated…
The Bulwark DailyRep. Sarah McBride: Our President's Drunk History Take
In his rambling mess of a speech at Davos, Trump confused Iceland and Greenland, and demonstrated that he doesn't understand how NATO works. The infamous…
The Bulwark DailyDavid Plouffe: Democrats Have to Run Against Their Party
The Republican Party may be deeply unpopular, but the Democratic Party is even more so. The Dems' brand is weak despite the success of the off-year elections…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: Trump Is Humiliating Us
The president's demented rant that the United States has to take Greenland because the Nobel committee has not awarded him his much coveted peace prize is…
The Bulwark DailyWright Thompson: The Ghosts of Mississippi
Official Mississippi doesn't really want to talk about the murder of Emmett Till—or teach about the murder of Emmett Till. Almost 71 years later, the…
The Bulwark DailySam Stein: Trump Is Trying to Instigate Unrest
For some reason, the president thinks he is winning the news cycle by occupying a great American city and ordering his agents to violently confront U.S…
The Bulwark DailyMark Hertling: The Cowards of ICE
To the people who have actually served in war zones—and been up close and personal in real do-or-die situations—the masked, heavily armed agents who are…
The Bulwark DailySusan Glasser and Jacob Soboroff: A Dangerous Lame Duck
Trump's low approval ratings may be giving people the idea that he is weak and disempowered. But Trump backed into a corner could well be more unconstrained…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: This Is Accelerationist Authoritarianism
Grandpa Trump looked like he was losing the pep in his step at the end of the year. But with him threatening the independence of the Fed, justifying the…
The Bulwark DailyAnne Applebaum and Jacob Frey: Using Lies to Justify Violence
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE descended on his city with hopes of rounding up undocumented Somalis. When agents couldn't find any, they started driving…
The Bulwark DailyRyan Grim: An Unconscionable Reaction to a Summary Execution
Most law enforcement departments train officers not to stand in front of vehicles—or shoot at moving ones—but masked ICE agents in Minneapolis did just that…
The Bulwark DailyGeorge Conway: Trump Is a Vampire
Biden and Merrick Garland thought Trump would just go away, but malignant narcissists must be made to leave. And with Congress not fulfilling its…
The Bulwark DailyJonathan Blitzer: The Stars Aligned Against Venezuela
Trump wanted to alpha male and take some oil, Hegseth wanted to bomb something, Rubio wanted Maduro gone, and aggrieved Stephen Miller wanted to bully the…
The Bulwark DailyBill Kristol: A Stupid and Insane Foreign Intervention
Toppling the leader of Venezuela looks to be about greed and Trump's vanity. It's not about national security, and is likely to produce bad outcomes—including…
The Bulwark DailyJohn 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, the wheels…
The Bulwark DailyJulie 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 docs that…
The Bulwark DailyBill 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 Musk's…
The Bulwark DailyKara 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 ostentatiously…
The Bulwark DailyTom 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, the…
The Bulwark DailyBill 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 officials at…
The Bulwark DailyDavid 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 Epstein. The…
The Bulwark DailyPatrick 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 of foreign…
The Bulwark DailyCatherine 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 claims of an…
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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 of…
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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 blow after…
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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 him find…
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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, the…
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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 agency when it…
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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. And…
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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 Bovino…
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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 one from…
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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…
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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 losing…
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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 media professions involves Olivia…
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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 down his…
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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, his…
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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. In his new…
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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 Epstein…
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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 Trump was in…
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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 party. And…
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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 flailing…