The Bulwark Podcast

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Charlie Sykes and guests discuss the latest news from inside Washington and around the world. No shouting, grandstanding, or sloganeering. Truth over tribalism. Principles over partisanship.
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Trump wants to weaponize the office of the presidency, and who would stop him?

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12.01.2023 Adam Kinzinger: Why Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse Trump wants to weaponize the office of the presidency, and who would stop him?
11.30.2023 The Banality of Crazy From Elon to Trump to Kanye, public decompensation is a part of our culture now.
11.29.2023 Michael Steele: The GOP's Humiliation Kink This is the era of political humiliation.
11.28.2023 David French: It's a Cult Don't underestimate the power of the belief that Trump is part of a prophecy for many evangelicals.
11.27.2023 Will Saletan: Trump’s Pee-wee Herman Moment Trump wants you to know that he remembers who the president is.
11.24.2023 Amir Tibon: Terrible Choices for Israel Hamas triggered the Gaza war, and signed the death warrants of thousands of Palestinians.
11.22.2023 We Are Living in a Post-Rational World A disconnect from reality has descended on the US.
11.21.2023 Karen Tumulty: The Sununu Effect in New Hampshire Non-MAGA is showing up for Haley and Christie in contrarian New Hampshire.
11.20.2023 Will Saletan: The Annihilation of Truth We are in an age where internet randos are beating out reality.
11.17.2023 The Bulwark Live, with Brian Stelter Fox launched the Big Lie based on a random email from a woman in Minnesota who heard voices in the supermarket.
11.16.2023 Too Crazy for Rudy One person we can be certain will not be called as a witness in Georgia: nutty Sidney Powell.
11.15.2023 Peter Wehner: A Polite Zealot We may have averted a government shutdown for the moment, but the new speaker of the House believes dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark.
11.14.2023 George Conway: Trump Knows He's a Criminal Deep down, Trump knows the truth, and is running again to stay out jail—just like authoritarian leaders do in other countries.
11.13.2023 Will Saletan: Punish the Vermin Very powerful and strong Donald Trump is promising his supporters the freedom to go after the people they don't like if he returns to the White House.
11.10.2023 Flooding the Zone Jack Smith's office filed an epic motion this week laying out the central role of Trump's lies in the election subversion case.
11.09.2023 A.B. Stoddard: Insane and Surreal Trump wants to melt the constitutional order, but NBC didn't bother to ask the also-rans about that at their debate.
11.08.2023 Greg Lukianoff: The Canceling of the American Mind Now that the anti-Zionism bias on campus is clear, the left may be rethinking their claims about cancel culture.
11.07.2023 Cassidy Hutchinson: Why I Testified Cassidy Hutchinson joins Charlie Sykes to discuss her break with Trump world, speaking truth to power, and steering herself back to the right side of history.
11.06.2023 Will Saletan: Don't Panic Recent polls have some Democrats reverting to bed-wetting, Christie calls out the deplorables, and Scalise is an election-denying weasel.
11.03.2023 Tim Miller: Trump Keeps Telling Us Trump glorifies insurrectionist prisoners and Bannon-world is using Confederate code words. But too little of the media is covering the radicalizing language.
11.02.2023 McKay Coppins: The Last Temptation of Mitt Romney Romney's journey from the party's standard-bearer to pariah is also a story of the transformation of the GOP.
11.01.2023 Insurrection and Its Consequences A Colorado case will determine whether Trump should be kept off the ballot there because of that annoying little insurrection issue.
10.31.2023 Adam Kinzinger: Renegade The former congressman says he wasn't always fighting the good fight, and that he feels some responsibility for the GOP's descent into dysfunction.
10.30.2023 Our Exhausted Politics The biggest danger to democracy is simple exhaustion.
10.27.2023 Josh Kraushaar: The Pro-Hamas Left Most Democrats support Israel, but a very loud, younger segment on the left is lending its support to the terrorist group Hamas.
10.26.2023 The Bulwark: Live from New Orleans Sarah, Mona, and Sonny join Tim in The Big Easy to talk about new Speaker Mike Johnson, Biden, Israel, and left-wing antisemitism.
10.25.2023 Flipping Is in the Air Jenna Ellis will not be the last flip in Georgia, ex-Trump water carrier Michael Cohen testifies about the fudged books, and the confusing case of Mark Meadows.
10.24.2023 Jonathan Martin: The Antibodies Resisting the Virus Remnants of the pre-Trump party are hanging on to challenge MAGA and Jenna Ellis shows her loyalty to Trump.
10.23.2023 The GOP Is a Failed State House Republicans don't have a platform, and in the absence of Trump, they can't pull together.
10.20.2023 John Avlon: Is the Center Finding Its Spine? Republican threats and bullying have finally gone too far when it comes to Jim Jordan.
10.19.2023 A Bad Day for the Kraken Sidney Powell pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the state in Georgia—Trump's legal woes just took a turn for the worse.
10.18.2023 Ryan Reilly: The Sleuths Who Helped Nab Jan 6 Rioters Ordinary Americans pored through reams of digital evidence to ID hundreds of Capitol rioters.
10.17.2023 Kara Swisher: Jim Jordan, Legislative Terrorist Jim Jordan spent the weekend bullying moderates, but threatening shame on social media and Fox may not be enough.
10.16.2023 Will Saletan: Don't Forget Who Jim Jordan Is Jordan was not just another Republican who voted against the election—he was in strategy meetings plotting how to keep the election's loser in power.
10.13.2023 Tom Nichols: Testing the System 'Til It Breaks The Republicans elevated fringe players who have no interest in governing, and now they don't have enough members to get the House functioning again.
10.12.2023 An Undue Risk of Conviction Jack Smith signaled he will be able to prove why Trump held onto the classified documents.
10.11.2023 Susan Glasser: A Superpower in Crisis The U.S. is knee-deep in the war in Ukraine, and now another potentially enormous war in the Mideast may draw us in.
10.10.2023 Steve Inskeep: Kevin Is No Lincoln Lincoln's political skills were a key part of his legacy, but the politics he practiced were not like today's base-oriented version.
10.09.2023 Will Saletan: Israel's 9/11 The attack by Hamas on Israel was barbaric, but the incursion—by land, sea, and air—was also sophisticated.
10.06.2023 The GOP’s Rubik’s Cube for Morons The Republicans have been on a trajectory to get a Jim Jordan-style speaker for 11 years, and the Democrats couldn’t have stopped it.
10.05.2023 The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus is running the GOP. Plus, Giuliani's drinking may undermine Trump's defense in the Jan 6 case. It's The Trump Trials.
10.04.2023 Tim O'Brien: The Hollow Men Kevin McCarthy aspired to the speakership for his resume, not because of legislative talents.
10.03.2023 Dana Milbank: The Chair Was Already Vacant Kevin McCarthy hasn't been doing much of anything all year as speaker, except lurching from crisis to crisis and leading from behind.
10.02.2023 Will Saletan: Everybody Hates Matt Gaetz The bipartisan loathing of Gaetz is almost a kumbaya moment.
09.29.2023 David Frum: The Kraken Is Never Coming The first impeachment hearing was panned on both sides, while House Republicans keep promising a new unicorn.
09.28.2023 A.B. Stoddard: A Completely Pointless Debate The kids' table debate was a cacophony of speed talking, interruptions, and yelling.
09.27.2023 Trump’s Empire of Fraud The ex-POTUS has been put out of business in New York, after his fraud was found so overwhelming that no trial was needed.
09.26.2023 Will Saletan: The Politics of Atonement Cassidy Hutchinson atones. Bob Menendez refuses. Plus: the government shutdown about nothing.
09.25.2023 Trump Ever After: Live from TribFest Olivia Nuzzi, Bret Stephens, and Ben Terris joined Charlie Sykes on stage in Austin over the weekend.
09.22.2023 Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap Our democratic order is facing a two-front war. While the immediate crisis may be from the right, the left is presenting its own threats.

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The Bulwark Podcast episodes:

Adam Kinzinger: Why Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse

The Banality of Crazy

Michael Steele: The GOP's Humiliation Kink

David French: It's a Cult

Will Saletan: Trump’s Pee-wee Herman Moment

Amir Tibon: Terrible Choices for Israel

We Are Living in a Post-Rational World

Karen Tumulty: The Sununu Effect in New Hampshire

Will Saletan: The Annihilation of Truth

The Bulwark Live, with Brian Stelter

Too Crazy for Rudy

Peter Wehner: A Polite Zealot

George Conway: Trump Knows He's a Criminal

Will Saletan: Punish the Vermin

Flooding the Zone

A.B. Stoddard: Insane and Surreal

Greg Lukianoff: The Canceling of the American Mind

Cassidy Hutchinson: Why I Testified

Will Saletan: Don't Panic

Tim Miller: Trump Keeps Telling Us

McKay Coppins: The Last Temptation of Mitt Romney

Insurrection and Its Consequences

Adam Kinzinger: Renegade

Our Exhausted Politics

Josh Kraushaar: The Pro-Hamas Left

The Bulwark: Live from New Orleans

Flipping Is in the Air

Jonathan Martin: The Antibodies Resisting the Virus

The GOP Is a Failed State

John Avlon: Is the Center Finding Its Spine?

A Bad Day for the Kraken

Ryan Reilly: The Sleuths Who Helped Nab Jan 6 Rioters

Kara Swisher: Jim Jordan, Legislative Terrorist

Will Saletan: Don't Forget Who Jim Jordan Is

Tom Nichols: Testing the System 'Til It Breaks

An Undue Risk of Conviction

Susan Glasser: A Superpower in Crisis

Steve Inskeep: Kevin Is No Lincoln

Will Saletan: Israel's 9/11

The GOP’s Rubik’s Cube for Morons

The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus

Tim O'Brien: The Hollow Men

Dana Milbank: The Chair Was Already Vacant

Will Saletan: Everybody Hates Matt Gaetz

David Frum: The Kraken Is Never Coming

A.B. Stoddard: A Completely Pointless Debate

Trump’s Empire of Fraud

Will Saletan: The Politics of Atonement

Trump Ever After: Live from TribFest

Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap

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