The Bulwark Podcast
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The Bulwark Podcast
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 "bo...
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641 episodis
Jane Coaston: We Have Some Questions, Melania
No one was really asking about Melania’s ties to Epstein. But after her surprise White House statement to the press on Thursday, the questions are flo...
Anne Applebaum: Hungary's Surreal, Post-Reality Campaign
Putin puppet Viktor Orbán—whose nepotistic and corrupt government in Hungary has become the model for the far-right in America and Europe—is facing hi...
David French and Suhas Subramanyam: The Superpower Folded in Front of the Whole World
Trump showed that he is completely unequipped to be a war leader. He threatened crimes against humanity, and not only let a foe prove it could take ou...
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz: The Dangers Posed by Sam Altman
AI poses real existential threats. The global economy is dependent on it, it's being deployed in war zones and used for domestic surveillance, and it'...
Bill Kristol: POTUS, the Macho Madman
In threatening to bomb Iran to smithereens, Trump seems to be motivated by a combination of frustration, vengeance, and wanting to look like a tough g...
Robert Kagan: We’re Transitioning to a Post-American World
The pro-Iran war hawks keep crowing about how U.S. military prowess is supposedly striking fear in Beijing and Moscow. But what’s really happening is...
Susan Glasser: The President Is Crazy and Delusional
Trump fired Pam Bondi, maybe the most destructive AG in the history of the United States, because she wasn't able to magically and lawlessly jail his...
Josh Barro and Paige Cognetti: The World Is Going to Blame Trump
The war-induced global oil shock is already pushing consumers and businesses to new pain points because of higher fuel prices. Airlines are cutting ba...
Jon Lovett: It Is Time to Scream and Yell
Trump has served up so many rationales for why he had to do this war, but helping Iran project even more power in the region was surely not one of the...
Bill Kristol: No Kings
Thousands of soldiers and Marines have arrived in the Middle East to potentially engage in combat on Iranian soil. Trump has done nothing to make the...
Michael Steele: The King of Debt Is Blowing Up the U.S. Economy
In addition to the global energy shock brought on by Trump's war, mortgage rates are surging, and labor costs and prices are rising. And Republicans d...
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake
For nearly 50 years, since the Ayatollah seized power in Iran and took Americans hostage, the U.S. has known that the regime could single-handedly shu...
Angie "Pumps" Sullivan and Phil Gordon: The Dumbest People Are Running this Country
Trump's shamelessness has been his political superpower, but the regime in Tehran is seeing a desperate and panicked man doing the opposite of what he...
Jeffrey Goldberg and Joe Weisenthal: Pandora's Box Has Been Opened
A war of choice may evolve into a war of necessity because the brains at the White House apparently did not anticipate that Iran—in response to the bo...
Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head
The man in charge is bluffing, blustering, and trying to manipulate the markets by claiming that the administration is in negotiations with Iran and w...
David Frum: A Very Bad Time for Bozos to Be in Charge
The U.S. is at war with the leading state sponsor of terror, and Donald Trump appointed Markwayne Mullin—a man with no counter-terrorism experience—to...
James Talarico: The Bulwark LIVE from Dallas
For Talarico, it doesn't really matter whether Cornyn or Paxton wins their runoff battle. Either way, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate says he is...
Ro Khanna: Trump Is in Denial
POTUS is pretending the laws of supply and demand don't apply when it comes to the price of oil. And his long list of conflicting statements on the St...
Ashley St. Clair and Cameron Kasky: Leaving the MAGA Cult
A former MAGA influencer who saw the underbelly of the immense power and wealth around this administration says never-Trumpers should show compassion...
Bill Kristol: End the War
As the Iran war enters its third week, the Trump administration looks like it doesn’t know what it’s doing: It did not bother to consult U.S. allies b...
Tom Nichols: Sinking Into the Mire of a Longer War?
The Trump administration is preparing to deploy a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East along with more warships. But that development was not...
Sam Stein: The Ridiculously Unserious President
We’re raining hellfire down on Iran and American soldiers have died, but that doesn’t stop Trump from hitting the links, doing a little dancing, or ho...
Saagar Enjeti: “The Joke Is on Me”
One of the biggest America First fans tells Tim that he thought Trump 2.0 would be different because like-minded, high-level personnel—including the v...
Laura Rozen and Sonny Bunch: War and Dystopia
Before the bombs and the missiles started falling on Iran, Trump sent Jared and Witkoff to try to cut a deal with Tehran. But his two favorite emissar...
Sarah Longwell: No One Should Trust this Government
Unless the administration is keeping some closely-guarded secret about why America went to war against Iran, the only thing officialdom is saying out...
Neera Tanden: Absolute Power Corrupts
Republicans and the Supreme Court have put basically no guardrails on Trump, so he started a global war that is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day. He...
Derek Thompson: Ruling by Emergency
Not only is Trump failing to provide any clarity on why the United States went to war against Iran, the administration is also sticking to its habit o...
Morris Katz: Tax the Billionaires
The starting kit for a unified Democratic Party with the biggest, broadest tent should be calling out the billionaire class that is sabotaging our pol...
Mark Hertling and Ruben Gallego: A Rush to War
The facts on the ground and the ludicrous statements speak for themselves: The administration inadequately planned for the execution of this war. That...
Bill Kristol: A Madman's Way of War
Trump cannot enunciate a clear reason for why he's chosen to go to war against Iran, and the administration is not even bothering to coordinate a mess...
Amanda Carpenter: Let the Media Dinosaurs Die
Trump’s head is stuck in the 80s so he may not have noticed that cable is dying. All he can think about is getting his greedy little hands on CNN so h...
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People
No matter how often Trump tries to change the subject, he keeps getting caught in his own attempted diversions. He blames Somali immigrants for import...
Susan Glasser: Trump’s Industrial-Scale Lies
For just under two hours, Trump in his State of the Union address lied about the state of the economy, the cost of living, his tariffs, and even his i...
Charles Duhigg: What MAGA Can Teach Democrats
Apart from all the lies MAGA is forced to say in defense of Donald Trump, the movement is actually better at political organizing than Democrats. So w...
Jonathan V. Last: Trump's Decadence Is Rubbing off on Americans
With a shooting at Mar-a-Lago and some real counterterrorism issues associated with Trump's threat of war on Iran, Kash Patel probably had more import...
Michael Weiss: Trump’s Fee-Fees Are Hurt
Of course, SCOTUS struck down Trump’s stupid tariffs. Nearly every legal expert in America said they were unconstitutional, but we have had to live wi...
Sen. Tina Smith: The Bulwark LIVE from Minneapolis
The junior senator from Minnesota joined Tim on Wednesday for the first show of a two-night Bulwark run at the historic Pantages Theatre in Minneapoli...
Mark 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...
Rick 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...
Bill 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 herit...