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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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S2 Ep1052: George Packer: JD, Hollow Man
Our VP used to think his path to power was through the ruling class at Yale Law School. But after 2016, he saw that his route was through Trump, so he swapped…
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S2 Ep1051: Pete Buttigieg: Dream Bigger, Talk More Boldly
Democrats need vastly more imagination to confront the enormous challenges the country faces politically, economically, and on climate. The party can't just…
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S2 Ep1050: Bill Kristol: Something Worth Fighting For
Despite our missteps in some of our more recent wars, we were fighting to bring freedom, democracy, and self-governance to others. Now, Trump's mercantilist…
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S2 Ep1049: James Comey: Uncomfortably Numb
Public corruption used to be a congressman hiding $90,000 in his freezer. Now, we have a president taking "me time" to rake in $40 million from a Chinese…
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S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is
Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose health insurance— or how much they'd be spiking the deficit with…
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S2 Ep1047: Susan Glasser: American in Name Only
On deportations and on foreign policy, the Trump administration is swapping out American values and violating everything the U.S. has stood for in exchange for…
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S2 Ep1046: David French: Schizo-in-Chief
One day Trump sounds like Bernie promising the government will provide for everything. Then the next, he's like Paul Ryan the belt-tightener, prepping for…
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S2 Ep1045: Bill Kristol: A New Gilded Age
No, the Trump administration is not focused on the forgotten man or bringing industrial jobs back. Instead, the real estate developer is handing out threats…
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S2 Ep1044: Peter Hamby: All in Service of Kissing Trump's Ass
MAGA is having a performative tantrum calling for James Comey to be jailed over a seashell meme because the daily job of Trump's supporters and Cabinet members…
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S2 Ep1043: Michael Weiss: All Bribes Accepted
American taxpayers may have flown Donald Trump to the Middle East, but he's not there to negotiate on behalf of our strategic or national interests—he's on the…
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S2 Ep1042: Leah Litman and Andrew Egger: Grievance All the Way Down
The five men on the Supreme Court are so easily triggered and seem to be making law based on their emotional needs. Meanwhile, they also see discrimination in…
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S2 Ep1041: Justin Wolfers: Trump's Centrally Planned Economy
China sounds downright Reaganesque and is acting like a more stable, attractive trading partner than the country that launched a trade war. And even though…
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S2 Ep1040: Bill Kristol: A Golden 747 from Hamas's Sugar Daddy
Trump can't abide flying around in crusty, old Air Force One. Qatar—funder of both Hamas and the leading U.S. college Gaza protest group—just happens to have a…
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S2 Ep1039: Amanda Carpenter: MAGA's Bad Week
First, the Vatican chose a Bulwark pope, not an AR-15 loving, immigrant-hating pope. Then, in a major blow to Steve Bannon, Trump pulled his nominee for U.S…
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S2 Ep1038: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The Power of 'No'
Protest is the new brunch again. We're witnessing historic levels of pro-democracy grassroots engagement across a broad-based movement of everyday people. The…
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S2 Ep1037: Katie Phang and Greg Casar: Trump & Co Are the Real Flag Burners
The Supreme Court is working hard to tend to Mr. Presidential Immunity's wounds because he just can't abide lower federal court judges telling him he can't…
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S2 Ep1036: Jonathan V. Last: An Economic Tsunami Is Coming
Because Donald Trump's stupid trade embargo has us reading shipping charts, we now know that 40% of containership traffic between Asia and the U.S. has been…
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S2 Ep1035: Bill Kristol: A Reckless, Tin-Pot President
Trump 2.0 is showing so little concern for his political standing that even Fox made primetime room for Karl Rove to vent about how he's failing at the…
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S2 Ep1034: Derek Thompson: Trump's War on Dolls
Just imagine Fox's histrionics if a President AOC had said that American kids have too many dolls and that she's raising the price on them. Now the supposedly…
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S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists
Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the…
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S2 Ep1032: Tony Blinken: America Alone
For 80 years, the United States built strong economic, military, and political alliances around the world. But in just 100 days, that trust has been…
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S2 Ep1031: Joe Weisenthal: Everything Screams Recession
The markets may be hanging in there but they also held strong in early 2020—right up until Covid hit New York. Meanwhile, tariffs are driving consumer…
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S2 Ep1030: Bill Kristol: Creepy and Wrong
The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. citizen children, arrested the wife of a member of the Coast…
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S2 Ep1029: Beto O'Rourke: Never Lose Hope
Since this country's founding, we have been tested. And the Americans before us somehow stood up and fought the good fight. We can't be the generation that…
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S2 Ep1028: Cory Booker: A National Crisis and a Global Crisis
Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets repeatedly played by foreign leaders on the world stage. At…
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S2 Ep1027: Jonathan Rauch: Focus On the Corruption
Trump may be brilliant at assaulting us with his daily distractions, but Democrats need to relentlessly target his corruption because that may be his weak…
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S2 Ep1026: Michael Steele: Your Voice Matters
Trump and the people around him are trying to weaken our constitutional protections like due process. But the administration is getting rattled, because people…
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S2 Ep1025: Bill Kristol: Hegseth Keeps Proving his Unfitness
Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our military, but because of their spinelessness, we've now got a…
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S2 Ep1024: Anne Applebaum: Everything Is a Game to Trump
Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched the administration in crystal-clear language about how…
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S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process
The White House is doubling down on justifying its extra-judicial actions around Abrego Garcia by trying to incriminate him in the court of public opinion. But…
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S2 Ep1022: Stephanie Ruhle: Only Trump Is Happy
Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family are wealthier than they've ever been. He's got his…
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S2 Ep1021: Josh Barro: Total Idiocy
Trump & company want to turn us into Taiwan circa 1985. But the brilliant minds behind the idea of intentionally weakening the dollar are prioritizing making…
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S2 Ep1020: Bill Kristol: Staring Down the Barrel
We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocked our judicial system from…
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S2 Ep1019: David Frum: It's Too Late to Stop the Pain
Trump has effectively imposed a trade embargo on China, which means that after the inventory runs out, American retail will soon dry up. And since Europeans…
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S2 Ep1018: Andrew Weissmann and Patrick Gaspard: Naked Corruption
Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prompted speculation that Trump was orchestrating an insider…
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S2 Ep1017: Catherine Rampell: Trump's Tariffmageddon
The White House is pumping out a lot of happy talk about countries wanting to make deals over the tariffs, but the tumult Trump has created has spread to the…
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S2 Ep1016: Jonathan Cohn and Mark Lilla: Lobotomizing America
When it comes to biomedical research, America is already great. We are the world's leader in the field. But the Trump administration is gutting research and…
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S2 Ep1015: Bill Kristol: The High Cost of Stupidity
Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trump would actually do the truly moronic thing he kept saying…
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S2 Ep1014: Adam Kinzinger: Mortal Damage to the American Empire
It's been great to live in America since World War II, but Trump is in the process of blowing up that whole order. Even Canada is looking to lead a new…
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S2 Ep1013: Mallory McMorrow and Tracy Alloway: A Self-Inflicted Crisis
The market plunge is just pure Trump chaos, and perfectly matches his record as a businessman. From his numerous bankruptcies and many failures—including his…
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S2 Ep1012: Sam Stein: Elon Is Toxic
Musk was so high on his own supply that he thought he and his money were magic—but Wisconsin voters turned out in droves to prove to him just how toxic his…
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S2 Ep1011: Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious
The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvadoran penal colony—but at the same time, it says the federal…
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S2 Ep1010: Bill Kristol: Stiffen Your Spines, Democrats
If Joe Rogan is the voice in the wilderness on the disappearing of migrants to El Salvador, then the Democratic leadership really needs to rethink its…
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S2 Ep1009: Amanda Carpenter: Daddy? No, Manny Trump
Trump is siccing the thought police on the Smithsonian, he's got an FBI task force set up to protect Elon's car company, and he's turning random tattoos into…
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S2 Ep1008: Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View
Trump so far is not delivering on his promised spike in deportations, but he is creating a permission structure where we lock up people without due process in…
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S2 Ep1008: Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni: Radioactively Stupid
No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an insecure app, the colossal f***up of an administration that…
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S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?
Senior members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were planning to kill, and with what kind of weapons, while also…
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S2 Ep1006: Live from Phoenix
Bill Kristol joined Tim Saturday in Arizona to rip the atrocious behavior of our government—depriving even lawful Venezuelan migrants of due process, and…
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S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones
Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse with all his mass firings. But DOGE should be looking…
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S2 Ep1004: Wes Moore: The System Doesn't Work for a Lot of People
Trump is a vessel for frustration over the status quo, but he is not a vehicle for a solution—since he has no idea about how to make things better for anyone…
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S2 Ep1003: Ben Wittes: Putin Makes A Fool of Trump, Again
The Art of the Deal guy gave a master class on how to get worked over by Putin: First, wait around for an hour like an obedient puppy only to have your…
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S2 Ep1002: Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov: The Cheap Whore at the White House
The fastest growing demographic class in America is billionaires—we've gone from 500 to 2,500 in the past 10 years. And they know the cheapest, easiest way to…
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S2 Ep1001: Bill Kristol: Give Back the Statue of Liberty
Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by summarily locking up and deporting law-abiding…
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S2 Ep1000: David French: Trump Admits He's Violating the Constitution
Trump & company aren't even attempting to create a pretext for why they're punishing the free speech of political opponents. They are basically confessing in…
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S2 Ep999: Sam Stein: How Do You Negotiate with Nihilists?
Democrats are stuck with two terrible options: Either facilitating a government shutdown or allowing Republicans to pass a spending bill that would defund…
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Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal
Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and other cities, attacking civilians and first aid workers, and…
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Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse
To find out what's really going on in Trumpistan, the AP is out and random lifestyle Instagrammers and MAGA conspiracy posters are in. Meanwhile, hothead Dan…
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S.E. Cupp: The Outrage Is the Point
This time around, Trump has dispensed with the ribbon-cutting side of being president—he's just not giving average Americans anything to feel good about…
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Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0
They end up sounding ridiculous whenever they try—like the treasury secretary saying that access to cheap goods is not part of the American dream. At the same…
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Neera Tanden and John Fetterman: They're Playing With People's Lives
Donald Trump is hurting the American people. The DOGE cuts are not only waging war on jobs, they're also harming the American public and undermining the…