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Bulwark Takes
Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team. This is the home to ad-free video shorts, Bulwark+ member-only livestreams, and live event archives. The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither do we.
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Episodes
Bulwark TakesRight-Wing Media Won’t Let Trump De-Escalate Minneapolis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer give their takes on the right wing media fallout…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s Minneapolis Raids Are Crushing Peoples’ Lives
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Adrian Carrasquillo spent several days on the ground in Minneapolis as…
Bulwark TakesTrying to Live on the USDA's $3 Diet (w/ Colleen Heflin)
The Trump White House says Americans can eat healthy meals for about $3 a serving. To test that claim, Jared Poland tried living on the administration’s…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: You Don’t Get a Mulligan for Murder
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the Trump administration’s effort to defuse outrage over…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s Health Claims Are Getting Embarrassing (w/ Ben Terris)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined by New York magazine Washington correspondent Ben Terris…
Bulwark TakesThe White House is Scrambling to Contain Fallout Over Minneapolis Killing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Andrew Egger give their takes on the fallout from the White…
Bulwark TakesSarah Longwell: They Support Gun Rights—But Only for Republicans
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Fresh off MSNOW's The Weekend with Catherine Rampell, Sarah Longwell explains…
Bulwark TakesWill Saletan: Kristi Noem Cannot Be Trusted to Investigate These Shootings
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan gives his take on why Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…
Bulwark TakesA Colleague Remembers Alex Pretti (w/ Dr. Aasma Shaukat)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein speaks with Dr. Aasma Shaukat, Alex Pretti’s former boss, about the…
Bulwark TakesThe Government is Telling You Not to Believe Your Eyes
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein, The Bulwark's managing editor, takes on Border Patrol…
Bulwark TakesAnother Murder in Minneapolis (w/ Sam Stein & Adrian Carrasquillo)
Bill Kristol, Sam Stein and Adrian Carrasquillo have a live discussion of the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This is a public episode. If you'd like to…
Bulwark TakesThe Minneapolis Shooting Demands a Real Investigation (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
Sarah Longwell is joined by Andrew Weissmann for his reaction to the second killing of a civilian in Minnesota by federal agents. Andrew is professor of…
Bulwark TakesBREAKING: MN Shooting Victim IDed, New Video of Incident
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim, Sarah and Andrew react live.
Bulwark TakesBREAKING: Second Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller, JVL, and Sarah Longwell reacted live to the breaking news of a…
Bulwark TakesICE Detains a Corrections Officer, Leaves His Pregnant Wife Terrified (w/ Ben Bozeman)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Over the past week, there’s been a surge of ICE activity in Maine and one…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: Trump Deporting Gay Men to Iran Is a Death Sentence
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller gives his take on one of the most morally disgraceful moments of…
Bulwark TakesJack Smith Testifies, House Republicans Insult Our Intelligence
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan carefully dissects Jack Smith’s congressional testimony and shows…
Bulwark TakesJD Vance Defends the Indefensible on Live TV (w/ Jon Favreau)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and Pod Saves America’s Jon Favreau give their takes on JD Vance’s…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s New Voters Are Already Bailing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller gives his take on the latest New York Times/Siena poll and the…
Bulwark TakesTrump Chickens Out on Greenland After Markets Flinch
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Catherine Rampell give their takes on Trump backing off his…
Bulwark TakesRetired General Breaks Down Trump’s Davos Speech
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Lt. General Mark Hertling (Ret.) is joined by Ben Parker for a Command Post…
Bulwark TakesA Night Out With the Manosphere’s Most Toxic Extremists
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and Will Sommer give their takes on the disturbing viral night out…
Bulwark TakesLIVE REACTION: Trump Melts Down at Davos, Confuses Iceland and Greenland
JVL, Sam Stein and Andrew Egger react live to Trump’s rambling and combative speech at Davos on January 21, 2026. This is a public episode. If you'd like to…
Bulwark TakesRussia Kills Ukraine’s Power and Heat (w/ Caolan Robertson)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined by journalist Caolan Robertson, reporting from Davos, to…
Bulwark TakesTrump Shivs Sen. Bill Cassidy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL, Sam Stein, and Joe Perticone give their takes on how Trump abruptly…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: Sorry Sen. Murkowski, This Is Your Party Now
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joined MSNOW’s Deadline: White House with Alicia Menendez to talk…
Bulwark TakesICE Dragged an Old Man Into the Snow. Now DHS Is Lying About It.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Tim Miller give their takes on the disturbing footage of ICE…
Bulwark TakesWatch Scott Bessent Debase Himself Defending Trump’s Greenland Threats
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Will Saletan surgically dissects one of the most embarrassing interviews of…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s Greenland Text Is Utterly Insane
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL, Sam Stein, and Andrew Egger give their takes on Donald Trump’s shocking…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s Polls Are Slipping—So Why Does He Feel More Dangerous Than Ever?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump’s polls are slipping, but his authoritarian project keeps accelerating…
Bulwark TakesEXCLUSIVE: Viral Protester Speaks Out As ICE Turns Minneapolis Into “Military Zone”
Tim Miller is joined by Minnesota resident turned viral protester Chis Ostroushko for his take on the “insane” Minneapolis protests. Chris shares his…
Bulwark TakesFootball Is Our Last Monoculture... And It's Fragile (w/ Chuck Klosterman)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sonny Bunch sits down with writer Chuck Klosterman to talk about his new book…
Bulwark TakesBREAKING: Trump Threatens Europe Over Greenland; Europe Responds
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Will Saletan break down Donald Trump’s escalating threats against…
Bulwark TakesDemocrats Think They Can Flip the Senate in 2026 (w/ Sen. Adam Schiff)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Can Democrats flip the Senate in 2026? Lauren Egan is joined by Sen. Adam…
Bulwark TakesDOJ Targets Tim Walz and Jacob Frey
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein takes on the breaking news that a federal judge has set limits on…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: Trump Can’t Stop What He Started
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the rough stretch for Trump as leaked internal polling…
Bulwark TakesPrivate GOP Poll Reveals Trump’s Immigration Support Crumbling (w/ Marc Caputo)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump’s immigration issue is unraveling and even his own private polls show…
Bulwark TakesTrump Just Accepted Someone Else’s Nobel Peace Prize
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam and Sonny give their takes on an embarrassing scene at the White House in…
Bulwark TakesTrump Suggests Canceling 2026 Elections
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Andrew Egger give their takes on Donald Trump repeatedly floating the…
Bulwark TakesTrump Threatens to Invoke the Insurrection Act
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com President Trump said he may invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 in response to…
Bulwark TakesPutin Escalates His Cruel War Against Civilians
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Mark Hertling and Bill Kristol discuss the war in Ukraine, including…
Bulwark TakesICE Shot a 21-Year-Old in the Eye and Blinded Him
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller gives his take on a wave of disturbing ICE confrontations…
Bulwark TakesDemocratic Memo Warns That “Abolish ICE” Is Politically Toxic
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein talks with Lauren Egan about her scoop on a new Democratic memo…
Bulwark TakesTrump’s “Economy” Speech Went off the Rails
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Catherine Rampell and Sam Stein take on Trump’s Detroit Economic Club speech…
Bulwark TakesEven Joe Rogan & Tim Dillon Say the Minnesota Shooting Was Wrong
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller returns to "Piers Morgan Uncensored" to give his take on the…
Bulwark TakesTim Miller: People Don't Like This Insanity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller joined Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to discuss why the…
Bulwark TakesDisturbing New Videos Show ICE Harassing Minneapolis Residents
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller gives his take on the disturbing wave of videos coming out of…
Bulwark TakesLIVE REACTION: DOJ Threatens Fed Chair With Criminal Charges
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein, Catherine Rampell, and JVL provide live, breaking analysis after…
Bulwark TakesJake Tapper Fact-Checked Kristi Noem in Real Time (w/ Jack Cocchiarella)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Jack and Tim take on Jake Tapper’s on-air fact-checking of Kristi Noem, the…
Bulwark TakesTrump Wants to Take a Nobel Prize That Isn’t His
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com After the dramatic capture of Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump…
Bulwark TakesIs the Minneapolis Killing an Inflection Point for Trump?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Bill and Sam discuss the Minneapolis killing and other items from a very…
Bulwark TakesTim & JVL: America Used to Know This Was Wrong
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller and JVL give their takes on the shocking Minneapolis ICE killing of…
Bulwark TakesThe Right is Now AGAINST Free Speech on Campus (w/ Alex Bronzini-Vender)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller talks with Harvard student and New York Times op-ed writer Alex…
Bulwark TakesBREAKING: New Footage in Minneapolis Killing
Tim Miller breaks down newly released footage appearing to be from the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good. Correction, January 9, 2025, 3:35 p.m.: The…
Bulwark TakesTrump Is Bleeding Support From Young Men
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Donald Trump’s approval numbers are sinking and the cracks are showing in…
Bulwark TakesVance Says ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Deserves Gratitude
Sam Stein, Tim Miller, and Andrew Egger react live to JD Vance defending the ICE officer who fatally shot Minnesota woman Renee Good. This is a public episode…
Bulwark TakesJan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Muslims & Jews Is Running for Senate
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller gives his take on the Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Donald Trump, who…
Bulwark TakesInvading Greenland Would Be a Disaster (w/ Mark Hertling)
Sam Stein sits down with Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) to break down the recent Maduro operation in Venezuela, the challenges of coordinating military and…
Bulwark TakesThe Internet is Bullying Sam Stein!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The trio is back and 2026 is off to a wild start. Tim Miller, Sam Stein, and…
Bulwark TakesICE Agent Kills U.S. Citizen In Minneapolis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Tim Miller break down the shocking video from Minneapolis where…