Introducing Weekend Overtime
What You Missed This Week From The Bulwark
Hey everyone, welcome to the inaugural edition of Weekend Overtime. As you may have read, everyone’s favorite daily recap email has found a new space: Primetime Saturday Morning.
There is not enough space in an email message to fully recap our weekly work here, so my goal is to focus on something you may have missed. It’ll be familiar in style and tone, but the layout may differ week to week.
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Happy Saturday!
Overtime is for everyone. If you’re a Bulwark+ member: thank you. If you’re not, there’s no better time to subscribe to Bulwark+ than today. If you like today’s issue, you can share this newsletter with someone you think would value it.
Please make some time for this long-ish profile of one of my Cincinnati neighbors, and a fellow Bulwark+ reader. I think you’ll be glad you did.
I also recorded an interview with Shane for Bulwark+ Takes! Watch the interview. 🎥
Some Weekend Reading
On this week’s bonus episode, we let you know what’s on our bookshelves. Peter is reading On the Calculation of Volume, by Solvej Balle. Alyssa suggests checking out The Last King of America, by Andrew Roberts. And Sonny’s been reading Barry Sonnenfeld’…
How Democrats Can Win This Shutdown Fight
WITH NO CONSTITUTIONAL POLICE TO ENFORCE our nation’s basic laws, the most practical check on a tyrannical pr…
Free World 'Family Meeting' (with Tommy Vietor)
President Trump shouted down President Zelensky in the Oval Office last week, and many pro-Ukraine Trump voters wished it hadn't happened like that...publicly, at least. So, we wondered, what did the remaining pro-Ukraine Republicans think of America's role in the world?
Is American Decline an Illusion?
Eliot and Eric welcome Michael Beckley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, non-resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of Unrivalled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower, and co-author, with Hal Brands of
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Greetings from Cleveland! I’m up here celebrating a family birthday, and enjoying some nice live music and the slightly snowy weather.
Overtime lives on, albeit in a new format. Please bear with me as we grow into some comfier confines. I expect this newsletter might sometimes run long, and some messaging services “clip” messages, requiring one additional click to fully load the message. Please bear with me as we test out new layouts in the coming weeks.
"It’s a kind of farm subsidy, but for billionaires making digital magic beans instead of food." Read Noah Berlatsky in Public Notice about the ‘Crypto Reserve’ scam.
Fox at the Kennedy Center… Some, uh, interesting choices for the board of the Kennedy Center. Maybe if Hamilton doesn’t come, they can give Shen Yun a permanent installation?
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COMMENTS! My daily version of Overtime didn’t have a comments section. The weekend edition does. Come on in, but remember the rule: We’re looking for two of the three in: “Kind, necessary, and true.” See you there.
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Felt a bit disappointed when the weekday overtime sections are over, but I understand why the transfer is needed to the weekend. Can’t wait for every new edition on Saturday!
Always appreciated your rundowns, Jim, and I like the idea of this new format.