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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Jack Cocchiarella take on US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’ struggling through his appearance on Meet the Press as he stumbles through excuses for the heavily redacted Epstein files. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) joins Bill Kristol to discuss the Trump administration’s attempts to slow the release of the Epstein files. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the contro...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Senator Mark Kelly sits down with John Avlon to discuss Pentagon intimidation, the rule of law, and his AI for America plan—covering job displacement, data-center energy demands, and what it will take for the U.S. to beat China on AI without chaos. Watch, listen and leave a comment. The How to Fix It with John Avlon p...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com George Conway and Sarah Longwell close out the year—and this chapter of the show—with a conversation on the legal chaos of the Trump era. They discuss Trump’s attacks on the media, the chilling effect of defamation suits and settlements, the collapse of the DOJ, and growing concerns about courts, contempt, and judicia...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' movement and its adherents have done some of the most harm of anyone in Donald Trump's second term. The voters who are motivated by 'MAHA' are also some of the most interesting. The Bulwark's resident healthcare expert, Jonathan Cohn joins the show to break down th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the MAGA conspiracies that falsely accused a Brown University student of murder. After the Brown University shooting, right-wing influencers like Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson, and even a DOJ official spread baseless accusations targeting a student. The real killer was later identified on Thursday, a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com JVL and Catherine Rampell take on the re-naming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, as Donald Trump continues to put his name on anything he can, congress approval or not. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a com...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah, JVL, and Tim are going live to discuss the HUGE news day. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the player to toggle to audio. Add Bulwark...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Of all the images of Trump, the only times he seemed to be authentically smiling in the presence of another person was when he was with Jeffrey Epstein. The two of them had the same interests, and other people in the 80s and 90s assumed they were best friends. Over in MAGA land, a proxy war has broken out among rightw...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah and JVL talk about Trump’s big renaming spree and how crazily dystopian everything is. Then they dig in to the big question: Is there a crackup happening in MAGA? And if so, is it being driven by a clash of the elites? Or the amorphous coalition drifting apart? The Secret Podcast with JVL and Sarah is exclusivel...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Ben Shapiro slammed Candace Owens at TPUSA's AmericaFest and exposed a growing civil war inside conservative media. Sam Stein and Will Sommer give their takes on the backlash, Tucker Carlson’s response, Megyn Kelly’s role, and why no one seems capable of stopping the chaos. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a commen...

On Monday, Sam Stein DMed me and asked if we could put together a little livestream event celebrating the work of Rob Reiner; he described it as sitting shiva, and I was happy to take the lead on putting this group of mourners together. I was joined by my colleague Bill Kristol, The Ankler ’s Richard Rushfield (whose great column on Reiner you can read here ), and Semafor ’s Dave Weigel (whose boo...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller is joined by Keith Edwards to take on Trump Media’s head-scratching move into nuclear fusion, the sprawling corruption tying together crypto, energy, and media power, and why major TV networks just handed Trump free airtime with no pushback. They also discuss elite cowardice, Dr. Oz’s bizarre speech, and th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Trump's power of persuasion is failing him on the affordability issue. He even broke MAGA creed on live TV by calling on Americans to trust the word of foreign leaders—who supposedly claim the U.S. economy is golden—over the pain they're feeling at the supermarket and at the pump. Meanwhile, NYC's mayor-elect seems to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the viral confrontation between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and a protester at a DC wine bar, and makes the case that public officials don’t get to cause mass suffering and still expect polite silence in public. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short vid...

Tim Miller, Andrew Egger and Will Saletan react to Trump’s White House address. From grievance speedruns to tariff denial and whatever is going on with that garland. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the player to toggle t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Will Sommer give their takes on the news that Dan Bongino is on his way out at the FBI. They discuss Bongino’s bizarre tenure, his struggle to reconcile conspiracy culture with reality, and what comes next. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com POTUS is firing or censoring the statisticians who collect data on health and climate, as well as the kind of experts who could verify his lofty claims of an A++++ economy. And while Vance says that Trump is really turning things around, job losses are rising from his destructive tariff and immigration policies. Plus,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller gives his take on Kash Patel using Katie Miller’s podcast to push back on criticism about spending time with his girlfriend, and why the interview felt more like reputation management than leadership at a critical moment for the FBI. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein joins Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace to discuss the stunning Vanity Fair interviews of Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles. Watch Deadline: White House on MSNOW: https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sarah Longwell, JVL, and Tim Miller discuss the jaw-dropping Vanity Fair interviews Susie Wiles gave to Vanity Fair and what they reveal about how Trumpworld actually operates, the Epstein and Maxwell fallout, the backlash to Trump’s remarks about Rob Reiner, MAGA’s internal fractures, Elon Musk’s role in dismantling...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Sam Stein and Catherine Rampell take on a weak jobs report and why the topline numbers may hide more serious economic trouble. They discuss into manufacturing job losses, the Fed’s warning that growth is overstated, and the White House’s shaky spin—plus how AI could soon hammer white-collar workers. As always: Watch,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com The people running the Republican grassroots are nativist populists, and it’s a space where opposition to Israel thrives, along with a heaping serving of antisemitism. Candace’s wild theories about the Charlie Kirk assassination has had a big impact among the young who get their news from TikTok and Instagram. And JD—...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Tim Miller takes on the planned deportation of Uyghur whistleblower Heng Guan, a decision that raises deeper moral and strategic failures in America’s approach to China. Please contact your senators and representatives: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes...

Celebrate the life and work of Rob Reiner with The Bulwark’s Bill Kristol and Sonny Bunch, who will be joined by The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield and Semafor’s Dave Weigel tonight at 9 PM. He was one of the most versatile directors of his generation, with classics like This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride, and A Few Good Men under his belt; come remember your favorites with u...