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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 Daily
Jim Acosta: Trump Can't Take the Heat
Once upon a time, presidents used to take tough questions from the press, but the current White House occupant can't handle any scrutiny from cantankerous…
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James Carville and Michael Weiss: The Whole Country Could Go Under
Trump is anti-American and seems to hate this country: How else can his behavior be explained? The tariffs, the austerity, the threat of a default, along with…
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Bill Kristol: Kleptocrats and Plutocrats
Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Europe and toward Putin—the poor guy who got dragged into…
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BONUS EPISODE from Tim's New "FYPod"
Tim has a new Gen Z podcast, co-hosted by Cameron Kasky. The most recent episode is called "Nazi Parties Aren't Ragers," and features guest Joshua Rush, a…
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David Frum: Both Pro-Jesus and Pro-Sex Trafficking
Forget the Epstein files hullabaloo. Members of the Trump administration, perhaps at the urging of Barron Trump, seem to have directly intervened to get the…
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Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon
The not-so-shadow president's largest Tesla plant is in Shanghai, but the People's Republic of China has the pink slip and can take it back at any time…
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Ruben Gallego and Zerlina Maxwell: Make Them Own It
Republicans are aiming to gut Medicaid to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the richest of Americans, and they're trying to hide it. The Dems need to bring the…
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Ben Wittes: Who the F*** Are You?
Trump administration lawyers don't know or won't tell a federal judge who is running DOGE because Elon doesn't formally exist as part of the government he is…
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Bill Kristol and Jared Polis: Send In the Clown
Trump keeps filling out his administration with the unqualified and the inexperienced, including the recent addition of borderline literate hack Dan Bongino at…
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Adam Kinzinger: It's Starting to Happen
Boos at a Republican town hall in Fulton County, and boos at the White House: We're beginning to see signs of people refusing to be ruled by unelected…
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David Graham and Pablo Torre: Is Lil Marco a Cuban Communist Agent?
If Marco Rubio was NOT playing the long game masquerading as a patriotic neocon who gets placed in the State Department to then give Russia everything it…
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Crypto should be one of the biggest stories out of the Trump administration, but the crypto guys are really good at making it seem more complicated than it is…
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Susan Glasser: Giving Away the Store to Putin
Trump is A-OK with all the murder and mayhem Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, and he's making a mockery of all his enablers who claimed he'd do a Reagan-esque…
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Bill Kristol: Taking A Wrecking Ball to the Government
Firing air traffic controllers over a busy holiday travel weekend, cutting a veterans crisis hotline, axing and then rehiring people who maintain and keep our…
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Andrew Weissmann and Michael Weiss: Valentine's Massacre
Unlike the cowardly Republican senators who are rolling over in the face of Kash Patel's bald-faced lies, the men and women of the Justice Department are…
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Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift
While Elon claims he's storming the government to cut waste, he's also getting himself a big fat check for $400 million from the State Department for Tesla…
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Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations
If Republican senators had any shred of dignity left, they'd demand that Kash Patel answer why he brazenly lied under oath to them about the purge of agents at…
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Tom Malinowski: Fight the Power, Dems
The Democratic Party was made for different times, when rules were followed. But to preserve the basic power of Congress, and to prove that the Constitution is…
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Bill Kristol: The Law Be Damned
The new administration has been routinely breaking the law, including on Friday when it announced it was cutting funding for universities doing medical…
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Ezra Klein: The Resistance, Back from the Dead
Partly because of the courts and partly because the White House keeps stepping on rakes or trying to break everything, the Dems who were too chill about Trump…
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Michael Steele: Gum Up the Works
After the dumbest member of the Senate, Tommy Tuberville, was able to block military promotions for months during the Biden administration, Dems should not…
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Ben Stiller: 'Severance,' but Real Life
With Elon's 20-something operatives running the Treasury Department, it's hard not to feel that we've been severed from reality and a better Earth someplace…
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Anne Applebaum: Outside the Rule of Law
If the Chinese hacked the U.S. government the way private citizen Elon has, it would be a major act of cyber warfare. And since Elon is a government…
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Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome: A Crime Boss Has Taken Over
The president of the United States is putting his Jan 6 accomplices in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI, and clearing out any officials who would…
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Andrew Weissmann: A MAGAtocracy and a Babytocracy
While Republican senators worked to protect Kash Patel from answering some ver-wee hard questions at his confirmation hearing, not one of them had the audacity…
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Tommy Vietor: Deniability Is All That Matters
Republican senators don't care that Trump's nominees are lying—like Kash pretending he didn't know a Nazi-adjacent podcaster whose show he's been on eight…
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Mona Charen: A Moment of Truth
Trump is trying to seize powers he doesn't have—like unilaterally rewriting laws and deciding on his own how he wants to spend money Congress appropriated for…
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Chris Hayes and Alex Kantrowitz: Trying To Break the Whole Thing
The directives putting a pause on federal grants and the firing of career DOJ prosecutors is about trying to make the entirety of the federal government the…
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Bill Kristol: Trump Loves Fraud
Gullible Republicans have really been proving what they're made of recently, including Susan Collins, who claims Trump wants to root out corruption, even…
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David French: Vengeance and Rage
Trump launched his first week back in office signaling to loyal followers that they are free to break the law on his behalf, while telling political…
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Sam Stein and Adrian Carrasquillo: We Are in a Simulation
Emotionally-stunted video game boys, who are also government contractors and/or quasi government officials, are fighting on Twitter, a POTUS who went all the…
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Stephanie Ruhle: Unlimited Money and No Rules
All those CEOs cartwheeled down to Mar-a-Lago and then dutifully lined up at Trump's inauguration because they were fed up with social justice warriors and…
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Tom Nichols: A Farce and a Sham
Trump tried to pencil out literal words in the Constitution and then freed 1,500 violent insurrectionists—while the media attempted to normalize it all…
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Bill Kristol: Resist the Nihilism
Trump wants us to believe that nothing matters, so we'll brush off all his corruption and grifting as though everybody does it. That's what aspiring…
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Ron Brownstein: Don't Take the Bait
Trump governed as a wartime president against blue America, so expect him to keep stirring up culture battles—but the Dems have to avoid getting drawn into…
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Melissa Murray and John Avlon: The Dark Legal Clouds Ahead
Pam Bondi is likely to sail to confirmation—even if she's an election denier and pretends she was born yesterday—because she meets the simple qualifications of…
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Adam Kinzinger and Mark Kelly: Dirty Little Secret
Being secretary of defense is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. But after Pete Hegseth was plucked from a part-time Fox & Friends gig, Republican senators…
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Peter Hamby: The Politics of a Firestorm
Real estate is everything in Los Angeles. Karen Bass's absence from the city when the fires broke out, and now her seeming aloofness, has instantly made her…
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Bill Kristol: Cannons All the Way Down
Trump's favorite judge, Aileen Cannon, has been attempting to exercise authority she doesn't have over Jack Smith's required report on his investigations of…
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Amanda Carpenter: We Are Team Karen (Pence)
"Mother" Pence is owed an apology. She snubbed Trump so hard and so beautifully at Jimmy Carter's funeral—and wasn't about to make nice with the man who was…
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Derek Thompson and Elizabeth Weil: The Trend Toward Solitude
Americans have been spending more time alone—and less time doing face-to-face socializing—than we have for at least 60 years. And our alone time is impacting…
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Liam Donovan and Brendan Boyle: The Great Grift
Trump talked a lot more about Hannibal Lecter during the campaign than one of his actual top priorities: extending his 2017 tax cuts. With those $4.5 trillion…
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Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks Up to Trump
Mark Zuckerberg is doing all he can to get an audience with the big man at Mar-a-Lago, including praising Trump's (faux) free speech bona fides and…
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Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI
Kash Patel's Jan 6 lie requires FBI officials to have been able to see into the future: to *know* that Trump would lose in 2020 and then try to get Congress to…
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Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City
New Orleans is the most special city in America, but it's a place that also breaks your heart. Local leaders will have to reassure the world that the French…
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David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism
Apart from the death and carnage on New Years Day in New Orleans, Americans revealed another darkness once again: an eagerness to pin violence on someone who…
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Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission
While some media outlets may be moving to accommodate Trump out of fear he'll target them, The Bulwark will not be recalibrating. We'll keep providing the…
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Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts
MAGA v DOGE, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, is an early sign of the coming infighting that could diminish Trump's power—we're definitely not seeing…
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'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral'
Do you have to pick a side in politics? That was the question Reason Magazine, the flagship publication of the libertarian movement, invited The Bulwark to…
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Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible
While it's still going to be bad, for the first time since the election we're beginning to see that we may actually have a little fun watching these idiots…
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Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government
We are seeing in real time what it looks like to turn a democracy over to an oligarch, namely the unstable guy from South Africa who thinks he's going to be…
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Mark Hertling: Putin's Weakness
Russia is on its weakest footing since it invaded Ukraine: Putin has destroyed his military, his economy is in the toilet, and the North Korean troops who've…
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Tom Nichols: Don't Descend into Darkness
The existential dread has a strong pull, especially since Trump has made a lot of Americans worse people, but we've had other bad, immoral, and creepy…
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Bill Kristol: Fake Nicey-Nicey Sh**t
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have joined the preemptive capitulation parade by settling Trump's defamation suit—and by conspicuously paying out…
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Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime
The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a…
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Matt Yglesias and Tyler Austin Harper: Popularism v Populism
The origins of the Democratic party's current malaise include ineffective messaging on climate and economic policy, too rigid a tent on cultural issues, and…
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Adam Kinzinger and Pat Ryan: Bring It On
Team Trump is trying to intimidate the opposition. Stop showing them your fear. Plus, Gaetz moves from AG nominee to low-rent MAGA cable channel host, and RT's…
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Susan Glasser: A Lame Lame Duck
A sense of Biden's irrelevance has descended on Washington, with Trump flying off to Paris and meeting world leaders, and also openly conducting his own…
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Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss: Catastrophic Success
Trump is threatening members of Congress with jail and Republican senators may be circling the wagons around his nominees, but we still need to protect…
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Jamelle Bouie: Bad at Being President
Trump may have authoritarian aspirations, but he's very bad at governing and managing—four weeks into the transition, he's had two major Ls. Meanwhile…