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Trump’s Mussolini moment.| The Bulwark
Tim Miller and JVL take on Donald Trump’s unhinged reaction to the NBA gambling scandal—and what it reveals about his plan to turn the Department of Justice into a weapon for revenge.| The Bulwark
America’s partners shouldn’t think they can deal their way out of Trumpian chaos.| The Bulwark
Tim Miller takes on the contrast of Bernie, AOC, and Zoran Mamdani’s upbeat campaign messaging with Trump’s push to weaponize the DOJ over 2020 “fraud,” and explains why Mamdani’s economic focus matters for New Yorkers and could be inspiring for Democrats.| The Bulwark
Andrew Egger is joined by Rob Sand to discuss his run for governor of Iowa, Iowa’s economic struggles, and his effort to unite Democrats and disillusioned Trump voters through accountability over partisanship.| The Bulwark
Right-wing personalities are feuding over the decision to invite Tucker Carlson to TPUSA’s annual confab.| The Bulwark
Conways explains...| The Bulwark
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 goods.| The Bulwark
Mona Charen and Financial Times columnist Ed Luce discuss how Trump’s second term has gone from chaos to control — from a fake war in Venezuela to a culture of fear in Washington.| The Bulwark
Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?| The Bulwark
The move raises questions of power, prudence, and proportionality.| The Bulwark
The surprisingly messy politics of the push to counter GOP gerrymandering.| The Bulwark
Sam Stein and Will Saletan take on the Republicans break amid Trump’s shutdown on Sunday shows as they call out his lack of participation in helping re-open the government, and Scott Bessent fumbles through defending the shutdown and condemning Canada for Ronald Reagan ad.| The Bulwark
Eric and Eliot discuss appeasement and the striking similarities between Putin’s recent demands and Hitler’s insistence that the Czechs surrender the heavily fortified Sudetenland.| The Bulwark
Bill Kristol and Michael Wood take on the fears we could be at the end of the republic as we know it.| The Bulwark
Plus: How he has come up short on prescription drug prices.| The Bulwark
Harvard law professor and democracy reformer Larry Lessig is taking on the big money machine.| The Bulwark
Tim Miller takes on our “everyone is twelve now” government mentality as the Trump administration posts immature content about former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, as well as Joe Biden’s son Hunter, on the official White House webpage, and using MGMT songs without permission with TikTok edit styles to glorify ICE’s violent attacks on protesters.| The Bulwark
Harry Sisson returns to FYPod after Donald Trump’s AI video literally pooping on him went viral.| www.thebulwark.com
Yet he and his party keep pretending they have a mandate.| www.thebulwark.com
A recording from The Bulwark's live video| www.thebulwark.com
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.| www.thebulwark.com
Zohran Mamdani, the young, telegenic, democratic socialist state assemblyman, looks set to be New York City’s next mayor.| www.thebulwark.com
The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith. Click to read The Bulwark, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.thebulwark.com
JVL and Will Saletan take on Donald Trump’s strange, childlike theology — a worldview where heaven is a reward for “winning” and faith is just another transaction.| www.thebulwark.com
Joe Perticone talks with Pentagon reporter Mallory Shelbourne about the Defense Department’s new “pledge” that forced dozens of journalists to turn in their badges.| www.thebulwark.com
In two recent appearances, the former special counsel explained his view of what it means to say ‘No Kings.’| www.thebulwark.com
The Israel–Hamas ceasefire is a welcome achievement—but the next steps are vague and the president lacks the temperament to get more.| www.thebulwark.com
Watch now | Maine’s upstart Senate candidate tells The Bulwark he is a different breed of Democrat than Gov. Janet Mills—but not a progressive.| www.thebulwark.com
This week on The Next Level Jonathan V.| www.thebulwark.com
Republicans in Congress know that what they’re doing is deeply unpopular—on healthcare, supporting troops in the streets, and on redistricting.| www.thebulwark.com
The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.| www.thebulwark.com
Sam Stein talks with former U.S.| www.thebulwark.com
The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith. Click to read The Bulwark, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.thebulwark.com
Next year is about more than defeating a wannabe dictator—it’s also an opportunity for a grand reaffirmation of democracy.| www.thebulwark.com
The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don’t stand up to scrutiny.| www.thebulwark.com
Places stay alive by making a little bit of change, all over, all the time.| www.thebulwark.com
Anxieties about having to deal with interlopers from a lower economic class are common even in the most socially insulated places.| www.thebulwark.com
A ‘naïve’ Supreme Court delivered lawless greed and cruelty. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can.| www.thebulwark.com
In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor.| www.thebulwark.com
The Nordic-Baltic Eight are stepping up.| www.thebulwark.com
MAHA is sickening in more ways than one.| www.thebulwark.com
Plus: The president makes nice with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.| www.thebulwark.com
Plus: How one group is working to STEM the tide of Trumpism.| www.thebulwark.com
How two mid-tier MAGA influencers ended up in a scrabble in the gravel.| www.thebulwark.com
Tim Miller and Cameron Kasky break down the bizarre Trump-Zelensky meeting and the disturbing implications of Trump's apparent willingness to appease Putin, including a look at rumored "Golan Heights style" occupation plans for Ukraine.| www.thebulwark.com
A principled ceasefire and negotiation require hard work. Trump prefers a fantasy peace.| www.thebulwark.com
Georgetown law professor Stephen Vladeck joins Mona to unpack the Justice Department’s attack on Judge James Boasberg, Trump’s efforts to bend universities to his will, the Supreme Court’s retreat into procedural evasions, and the broader erosion of guardrails in American governance.| www.thebulwark.com
As the former fringe increasingly becomes the GOP mainstream, expect to hear a lot of ‘anti-anti-ism.’| www.thebulwark.com
The administration’s power grab is no solution to the real problems on campus.| www.thebulwark.com
He has no one to blame for his Jeffrey Epstein problem but himself.| www.thebulwark.com
The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don’t stand up to scrutiny.| www.thebulwark.com
It’s hypocritical and often misogynistic—and echoes totalitarian rhetoric.| www.thebulwark.com
Expansionist rhetoric, economic grievance, and fantasies of erasing an “artificial” border.| www.thebulwark.com
The Biden team bet on big legislation. Voters didn’t care.| www.thebulwark.com
And about appointing Lara Trump to the Senate.| www.thebulwark.com
Plus: ‘The Bikeriders,’ assigned!| www.thebulwark.com
The Trump campaign sees a clear path for victory: juicing turnout among white men.| www.thebulwark.com
Was the loose-knit band of rebels always destined to go fringe?| www.thebulwark.com
