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Your Sheriff Might Be Planning to Help ICE Conduct Mass Deportations
State-level cooperation agreements and years of targeted messaging are providing the federal agency with eager allies in local law enforcement across…
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Jessica Pishko
MAHA Is a Fraud
America has never been healthier. Going backwards is going to mean more people getting sick and dying.
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Jonathan V. Last
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Democrats Face a Joe Biden Litmus Test
The ex-president has been out of sight since inauguration. But party luminaries feel he is still casting a shadow.
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Lauren Egan
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MAGA Hates American Greatness
A movement that says it wants to restore our preeminence is hell bent on undermining it.
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William Kristol
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Andrew Egger
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Will Selber
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Jim Swift
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Kari Lake Accosted Ruben Gallego at a Posh D.C. Club
The incident says a lot about politics and immigration. So, too, did a town hall that Gallego held with Sen. Mark Kelly over the weekend.
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Adrian Carrasquillo
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All the Ways Trump Is a B*tch
The gang discuss President Trump’s bonkers interview with Laura Ingraham, his obsession with making Canada the 51st state, his call with Vladimir Putin…
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Tim Miller
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Jonathan V. Last
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Sarah Longwell
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Ben Wittes: Putin Makes A Fool of Trump, Again
The Art of the Deal guy gave a master class on how to get worked over by Putin: First, wait around for an hour like an obedient puppy only to have your…
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Tim Miller
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Benjamin Wittes
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The Art of the Bogus Peace Deal
Trump-Putin phone call creates confusion, not goodwill.
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Cathy Young
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
By shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, the Trump administration has begun defying court orders in earnest.
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Corbin K. Barthold
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Is Trump Declaring War on Courts?
George Conway explains it all.
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Sarah Longwell
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Where is Our National Immune System?
Will and Mona discuss Trump's lust for expansion, the price of groceries, attacks on the rule of law, and the flaccid response to it all.
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Mona Charen
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Will Saletan
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Trump Moves to Settle the Fascism Debate
Plus: A supposedly fun thing Chuck Schumer will never do again.
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Joe Perticone
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Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov: The Cheap Whore at the White House
The fastest growing demographic class in America is billionaires—we've gone from 500 to 2,500 in the past 10 years.
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Tim Miller
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The Faces of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade
The government deported a 10-year-old American citizen with brain cancer.
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Jonathan V. Last
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MAGA Brocasters Grow Suspicious of the Jews
Joe Rogan and Theo Von, big-league hosts who elevated Trump, now playing footsie with antisemites.
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Will Sommer
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'Black Bag,' the Year's Best Date Movie
Plus: Do Netflix mockbusters get enough respect?
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Sonny Bunch
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Don’t Cry For Me, MAGAtina
The president’s takeover of the Kennedy Center may be clownish. But clownish authoritarianism is still authoritarianism.
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William Kristol
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Andrew Egger
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Jim Swift
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Ben Wittes: Putin Makes A Fool of Trump, Again
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George Conway Explains It All
Is Trump Declaring War on Courts?
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Just Between Us
Where is Our National Immune System?
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The Secret Podcast
The Trans Sports Episode
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The Next Level
All the Ways Trump Is a B*tch
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FYPod
The Fascist Stuff That the Fascists Are Doing
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The Focus Group
Unresolved COVID Trauma (with Dr. Leana Wen)
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The Mona Charen Show
An Insider’s View of RFK Jr. and the Risks to Public Health
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Bulwark+ Takes
This Might Be Their Most Brazen Ethics Violation Yet
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How to Fix It with John Avlon
Can Democrats Ditch Identity Politics?
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The Michael Steele Podcast
No More Nice- We Must Hold Trump and Musk Accountable (with Rick Wilson)
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Bulwark Goes to Hollywood
How to Build Your Own Movie Library
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Across the Movie Aisle
'Black Bag,' the Year's Best Date Movie
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Shield of the Republic
Russia Is a Habitual Treaty Violator
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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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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.
Veterans Group Wants to Make Elon the Supervillain of the Midterms
A new ad campaign from VoteVets goes after vulnerable House Republicans by turning the spotlight on DOGE.
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Joe Perticone
Trump’s Lust for Canada Echoes Putin’s Lust for Ukraine
Expansionist rhetoric, economic grievance, and fantasies of erasing an “artificial” border.
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Will Saletan
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The Fascist Stuff That the Fascists Are Doing
Tim and Cam talk about the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil and the lack of protests from Gen Z over the matter, as well as the enactment of the Alien…
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Tim Miller
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A Reckoning Is Coming For My Political Party
Chuck Schumer may have felt he was being prudent. But his voters saw a betrayal.
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Mondaire Jones
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