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What You Missed This Week From The Bulwark| The Bulwark
Sarah Longwell, JVL, and Sonny Bunch revisit Mike Judge’s Idiocracy — the 2006 comedy that was supposed to be satire but now feels uncomfortably close to reality.| The Bulwark
State Rep.| The Bulwark
Donald Trump has run into some summer doldrums...from the uncertainty in the economy, to his Big Beautiful Bill, to his refusal to come clean about Jeffrey Epstein.| The Bulwark
Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to take on Trump’s ‘Department of War’ rebrand, the collapse of his anti-war image, and how comedians from South Park to MAGA comics are skewering his tough-guy act.| The Bulwark
Tim Miller and Jonathan V.| The Bulwark
The one where we try to get satisfaction.| The Bulwark
The People’s Liberation Army has been planning for decades to challenge the U.S. military. They may be getting close.| The Bulwark
Last month, Trump fired the "woke" job numbers person after she released weak employment data.| The Bulwark
Sam Stein, Will Sommer and Andrew Egger discuss the implosion of MAGA media as several top influencers appear to be turning on Trump.| The Bulwark
Rep. Laura Friedman on evening the worldwide playing field for film production.| The Bulwark
RFK Jr.’s testimony on Thursday was filled with quackery and confrontation. But it was defined by egotism.| The Bulwark
The window is closing fast—but a handful of senators and Supreme Court justices could check Trump’s autocratic ambitions.| The Bulwark
Elaine Castillo finds love in a hopeless place: an office for content moderators.| The Bulwark
Tim Miller joins Katy Tur to take on the pitiful state of Congress.| The Bulwark
Cameron Kasky and Tim Miller take a look at the latest right-wing push to ban gun ownership for trans people.| The Bulwark
George Conway explains.| www.thebulwark.com
The resignations of senior leaders at the CDC is a calamity.| www.thebulwark.com
Trump and his people have used the summer months to up the despot game—sending armed troops into the streets, taking over the police in D.C., and promising to export the same tactics to even more blue cities.| 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
Eliot and Eric are joined by Juan Carlos Pinzón, former Colombian Minister of Defense and two-time Ambassador to the U.S.| www.thebulwark.com
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The Nordic-Baltic Eight are stepping up.| www.thebulwark.com
MAHA is sickening in more ways than one.| www.thebulwark.com
MAGA’s biggest feud right now isn’t with Democrats — it’s inside Trump World.| 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
Tim Miller goes deep into Elise Stefanik getting booed at a local event multiple times as her neglect of constituents and loss of credibility back home gets called out.| 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
Tim Miller takes on how the Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal as it’s now being reported Trump pushed Putin’s demands onto Zelenskyy that Ukraine give up Donetsk and Luhansk.| 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
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
What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?| www.thebulwark.com
But that doesn’t mean Trump’s scandal will have the same ending as Nixon’s.| www.thebulwark.com
We don’t know yet, but Trump seems keen to find out.| www.thebulwark.com
He has no one to blame for his Jeffrey Epstein problem but himself.| www.thebulwark.com
Senators weighing her nomination for U.S. attorney should revisit her remarks denigrating prosecutors and calling defendants “hostages.”| www.thebulwark.com
Divorced men make up a big part of Trump’s coalition.| www.thebulwark.com
The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don’t stand up to scrutiny.| www.thebulwark.com
The post-Cold War international system has its flaws, but the alternative is worse.| 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
Can the campaign—and the candidate—stay focused on her record rather than her race?| www.thebulwark.com
The Trump campaign sees a clear path for victory: juicing turnout among white men.| www.thebulwark.com
If their criminally convicted presidential nominee can’t be condemned, then neither can a corrupt senator of the opposite party.| www.thebulwark.com
Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.| www.thebulwark.com
In November, voters will know exactly what’s at stake.| www.thebulwark.com
Was the loose-knit band of rebels always destined to go fringe?| www.thebulwark.com
