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Stop Groping Greenland
Trump’s predatory treatment of Greenland and Denmark is psychosexually sick.
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Will Saletan
Trump’s War on the Universities
The administration’s power grab is no solution to the real problems on campus.
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Cathy Young
Democrats Get the Smallest Amount of Good News
But hey, they’ll take it.
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Lauren Egan
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Abandoned in a Foreign War Zone
One USAID employee’s experience in Kinshasa as the agency was dismantled.
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Nancy Clair
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What a Stupid, Stupid Day This Is
The gang discuss President Donald Trump's ridiculous "Liberation Day" declaration and the foolish harm his tariffs will cause, the results of…
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Tim Miller
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Jonathan V. Last
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Sarah Longwell
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How ICE Tried—and Failed—to Send a Torture Victim to Mexico
An asylum seeker from Colombia had a court order preventing her deportation. Immigration agents didn’t seem to care.
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Adrian Carrasquillo
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Sam Stein: Elon Is Toxic
Musk was so high on his own supply that he thought he and his money were magic—but Wisconsin voters turned out in droves to prove to him just how toxic…
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Tim Miller
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Sam Stein
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Why Cory Booker’s Speech Matters
Booker didn’t “accomplish” anything. He was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. And that’s how you build a dissident movement: with simple acts of…
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Jonathan V. Last
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Val Kilmer Shone Brightest When He Wasn’t the Leading Man
Our huckleberry.
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Sonny Bunch
A Wakeup Call in Wisconsin
And a much needed one at that.
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William Kristol
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Andrew Egger
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Jim Swift
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Why We Train With Allies—Even When It’s Dangerous
When our soldiers were in trouble, our friends showed up and didn’t leave.
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Mark Hertling
‘People Will Die’—RFK Jr. Guts America’s Health Bureaucracy
Stunned experts fear major damage to U.S. health, science, and expertise.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Due Process, RIP
Andrew and Mona rant on several topics—the lawless deportation of innocent people, the insane gutting of HHS, and the tariffs.
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Mona Charen
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Andrew Egger
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Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious
The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvadoran penal colony—but at the same time, it says the…
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Tim Miller
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Lawmaking Moms Hand Mike Johnson a Major L
Plus: How does acceptance of a third Trump term get massaged into normality?
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Joe Perticone
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A Tale of Two Men
Look at MAGA family values, in all its repellent splendor.
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Jonathan V. Last
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When ‘Owning The Libs’ > The Constitution
Is Trump serious about a third term? Is he joking? Does it matter, so long as Dems are outraged?
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Will Sommer
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George Conway Explains It All
‘What They’re Doing Is Profoundly Evil and Wrong’
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Just Between Us
Due Process, RIP
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The Secret Podcast
DEFCON 3
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The Next Level
What a Stupid, Stupid Day This Is
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FYPod
Citizens United Against Elon Musk
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The Focus Group
The Kyrgyzstan PhD Problem (with Jen Psaki)
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The Mona Charen Show
A Small-d Democratic Hero
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Bulwark+ Takes
ICE’s Cruelty Hits a New Low
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How to Fix It with John Avlon
The Death of Debate: How Power Is Killing Free Speech in America
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The Michael Steele Podcast
Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (with Katherine Stewart)
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Bulwark Goes to Hollywood
They Call Him the ‘Working Man’
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Across the Movie Aisle
Trump's 'Free Speech Warrior' Goes After Free Speech
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Shield of the Republic
How Autocrats Use History
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Slack Tide by Matt Labash
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Josh Barro
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Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson
The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
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The Triad
Three things to read, from JVL.
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Morning Shots
Politics and news, every morning with Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger.
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Overtime
Start your Saturdays with a roundup of what's happening in the news and around The Bulwark.
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Press Pass
In-depth reporting on Congress, campaigns, and the way Washington works from Joe Perticone.
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The Opposition
Charting the Democrats as they try to emerge from the political wilderness. A twice-weekly newsletter from Lauren Egan.
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Huddled Masses
A newsletter by Adrian Carrasquillo chronicling immigration in America.
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False Flag
Unparalleled reporting and insights into the online culture and communities that now run our country. A twice-weekly newsletter from Will Sommer.
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The Breakdown
A newsletter from Jonathan Cohn that will tell you what the hell is actually happening to our government.
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Bulwark Goes to Hollywood
Sonny Bunch on movies, technology, and understanding the next Hollywood
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MAGAville (Archived)
MAGAville (Archived) featured reporting from inside MAGA World, by Marc Caputo in 2024.
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Trump's 'Free Speech Warrior' Goes After Free Speech
Plus: Does 'A Working Man' get the job done?
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Sonny Bunch
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Innocent (in a Brutal Prison) Abroad
The Trump administration’s latest stain on our values: sending a man without a conviction to a country where a judge ruled he couldn’t be sent.
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William Kristol
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Andrew Egger
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Jim Swift
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Why Autocrats Hate Their Capitals
Trump and Orbán both seem to view their governments’ seats as foreign.
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Alan Elrod
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Citizens United Against Elon Musk
Tim and Cam react to Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaways to voters in Wisconsin before an important state supreme court race tomorrow.
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Tim Miller
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