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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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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…
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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 corrupt…
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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 within the…
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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 have more…
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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's…
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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 victims…
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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 and…
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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 now see…
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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 was being…
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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 king—who is…
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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 slipping…
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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% look even…
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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…
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Bill Kristol: Fake News on '60 Minutes'
CBS News heavily edited its ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump, not only removing his lies about 2020, but also conveniently cutting the part about how the news…
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Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?
It’s hard to find a better example of seizing the means of production than our government seizing an equity stake in a company—which Trump keeps doing over and…
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Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurts Farmers
President Trump meets with Xi Jinping and agrees to an embarrassingly one-sided trade deal, as the “China Hawks” in the administration cower. Meantime, the…
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Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll
From the jump, the administration has been all about the memes, owning the libs, and pissing people off. But Abby says she wants Trump’s supporters to have a…
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Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?
While the inhumane and aggressive tactics unfolding in Chicago are repelling many Americans, they are having the opposite effect among Trump's top aides. The…
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Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum
Trump was so embarrassed by Canada using Reagan’s warnings about tariffs that he had a little hissy fit and decided to punish Americans for buying Canadian…
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Ryan Holiday: Life Is Too Short to Be a Bootlicker
Members of the administration, like Stephen Miller, who spend hours every day kissing Trump’s ass look so pathetic—but since the time of the ancients…
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Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand
The convicted felon was legitimately prosecuted for hoarding classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. And he was justifiably investigated over the numerous contacts he…
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Jon Favreau: Foundational Freedoms
One of the promises of this country has been the freedom to walk down the street without being harassed by the government. But even being an American citizen…
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Michael Weiss and Karine Jean-Pierre: Low Energy Trump
Putin’s friend in the White House may be back in his safe space with his kindred spirit in Moscow, but Trump is finding that he has limited leverage on Ukraine…
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Bill Kristol: Trump Hates America
Nearly seven million Americans peacefully took to the streets out of their love for this country, and Trump in response acted out like a toddler obsessed with…
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Peter Hamby: The Mini Dictator Wants What He Wants
The administration under sticky fingers Trump is now pretending it cares about the sanctity of classified documents, while it seems that Marco Rubio is the one…
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Anne Applebaum: The Loss of 'Democratic Faith'
The U.S. has been a model for other aspiring democracies since 1776. At the same time, the idea of America as the leader of the democratic world has also had a…
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Heather Cox Richardson: An Attack on Our System of Government
Republicans in Congress know that what they’re doing is deeply unpopular—on healthcare, supporting troops in the streets, and on redistricting. That’s why…
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JB Pritzker and Franklin Foer: Like Living in an Authoritarian Regime
After a court temporarily blocked the deployment of Guard troops in Illinois, ICE agents began ramping up their operations around Chicagoland. They are now…
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Bill Kristol and Ty Cobb: Recapturing America
Peaceful protesters in Chicago and Portland have been so clever and effective at ridiculing the masked Stasi agents in their cities that the political momentum…
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Jacob Soboroff and Sarah McBride: Democracy at the Ground Level
The administration may be trying to lay the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act by invading Chicago, but the real human stories are breaking…
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Sam Stein: A Bunch of Violent Keystone Cops
ICE and other armed federal agents are doing their best to incite violence in blue cities so they can help Trump realize his unfulfilled dream from 2020 to…
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Casey Newton: Lawlessness and Danger in Tech's Brave New World
Trump's TikTok deal looks like classic crony capitalism as well as open theft. But China has bigger fish to fry with trade than its TikTok algorithm—which led…
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Jake Tapper: Trump Is Making the Country Less Safe
A new kind of McCarthyism has settled in at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors—including those handling tough national security cases—are getting…
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Bill Kristol and Jane Fonda: The New 'Fierce Urgency of Now'
ICE is intentionally provoking violence in the nation’s cities and then glorifying it with their crack video team. Meanwhile, the rhetoric coming from Trump…
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Tom Nichols: All The Circuit Breakers Are Gone
President Trump’s loyalty purges continue. Prosecutors are fired from the U.S. attorney’s office in Eastern Virginia, including people who had nothing to do…
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Symone Sanders-Townsend: The White House’s Goal Is Enacting Pain
The Trump administration is turning up the heat now that the government has shut down, cancelling billions for green projects, targeting funding for…
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Ken Burns: You Have To Be A Bulwark
A government shutdown begins, as a standoff over spending enters what could be a painful phase. And President Trump kicks off the week warning his military…
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Van Lathan and David Jolly: How To Beat Middle Finger MAGAism
Pete Hegseth convenes the military’s top leaders to complain about fat troops and generals and plug his book. Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk’s assassination continues…
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Bill Kristol: Trump Wants Troops in Portland
President Trump orders the National Guard to be deployed to Portland, Ore., after declaring it a war-ravaged city. And reports surface that the administration…
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Adam Kinzinger: We Can’t Be Intimidated
President Trump’s quest for revenge escalates, as a grand jury indicts former FBI Director James Comey days after Trump forced out a prosecutor who refused to…
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Ezra Klein: Protecting People Means Winning Power
The White House readies plans for mass firings in the federal government as Democrats weigh the stakes of forcing a government shutdown. The Justice Department…
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Angie Craig and Glenn Thrush: Don’t Be Called Weak Sauce
A government shutdown creeps closer as President Trump cancels a meeting with Democratic leaders. Former Vice President Kamala Harris embarks on a press tour…
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Bakari Sellers: The Danger of RFK Jr.
The injecting-bleach president is getting some super-strong pseudoscientific information to scare mothers and blame them for autism while conveniently ignoring…
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Bill Kristol: Where Is the $50,000?
We thought Tom Homan was just an extreme border hawk and ideologue. Now we know this powerful law enforcement official, who's depriving immigrants of their…
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Thomas Chatterton Williams: How MAGA Learned to Love Cancel Culture
Cancel culture lives on, but it's taken new turns, especially among some of the loudest opponents of woke culture who simply can not abide one word of…
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Brian Stelter and Jonathan V. Last: Worst Case Scenario
The administration wants people to believe that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air because he supposedly crossed a red line when it came to Charlie Kirk—yet…
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Susan Rice: A Cancer in the Body Politic
This country has been dealing with an increase in political violence for nearly a decade, and leaders from across the spectrum need to do everything they can…
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Joe Manchin: The Man in the Middle
The former senator and former Dem has some not-very-nice things to say about Schumer and Obama—as well as progressives—who he blames for hounding Biden to move…
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Bill Kristol: What Does 'They' Mean?
The administration is threatening to take away money and power—and maybe even freedom—from some vague Trump opponents because of the Kirk assassination. It…
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David Frum: Leveraging Violence as a Tool of Power
Trump and the people around him want to use the Kirk assassination to suppress their political opposition. And Trump is clearly laying the groundwork for…
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Erin Ryan: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
This country has too many guns and too many crazy people. And the social media oligarchs are fanning the flames of violence by constantly trying to piss people…
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Stephanie Ruhle and Tom Saenz: Why Aren't People Freaking Out?
If Zohran Mamdani, as NYC mayor-elect, held a dinner with finance bros and threatened them with a huge wealth tax if they didn't sweet-talk him and say how…
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James Bennet: Trump Is Still Hacking the Media
More than 10 years in, journalists still have not figured out how to cover Trump. He understands the media environment better than a lot of reporters, and…
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Bill Kristol: Escalating the Authoritarian Project
In seven months, Trump has accumulated an astonishing amount of unchecked power. No one inside his administration is challenging his will, and Trump is…
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David French: Maybe the Tariffs Are the Problem
Last month, Trump fired the "woke" job numbers person after she released weak employment data. Now, we have even worse jobs numbers—and burgeoning signs of a…
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Mark Hertling: Performative and Deadly
The lethal U.S. military strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean was more about putting on a show than countering the drug trade out of South America. And it's…
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Lina Khan: The Impunity of the Elites
The economic populists at the Nat Con conference may be talking a lot about elites screwing over the little guy, but the Trump administration itself has been…
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Stuart Stevens: Say They're Not Patriots
Democrats need to learn to fight like Republicans. So when senators with serious foreign policy chops vote to confirm a middling weekend talk show host as…
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Jonathan V. Last: Burning Things Down
Red States are flexing their muscles and imposing their will on the other states through their coordinated redistricting efforts. And if they deploy their…
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Tom Nichols: America's Problem Child
Trump is like a dysfunctional 8-year-old whose parents are always in the principal's office arguing that their son is a good boy. The media, CEOs, and Wall…