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The Neoprogressive Moment and What to Do With It - The Bulwark
What happens after Trump? There are a number of possibilities, some more likely than others. In the near term, these will be determined by the outcome of November 3. If Trump wins, we move to one universe of outcomes. If he loses, we move to...
Trump’s Tax-Case Loss Is a Victory for the Rule of Law - The Bulwark
The Supreme Court rulings helpfully remind us how courts and states can push back against a failing and corrupt president when Congress won’t.
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The Supreme Court rulings helpfully remind us how courts and states can push back against a failing and corrupt president when Congress won’t.
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What Women Want - The Bulwark
One of the great mysteries of 2016 was why so many women voted for Donald Trump. Despite being caught on a hot mic talking about grabbing women “by the pu**y,” nearly 20 sexual assault allegations, and well known accounts of treating his multiple...
Democracy Is No Game - The Bulwark
The country is burning, literally and figuratively, torn apart first by a deadly virus and then by protests and violence in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis. It may not seem like the ideal moment...
Tammy Duckworth and the Trump Trap - The Bulwark
What her clash with Tucker Carlson over statue removal can teach us about our new ‘culture war’ moment.
Now is the Time to Stand with Dreamers - The Bulwark
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court surprised many with a decision that, for the moment, keeps the hopes of Dreamers — immigrants who came to America as children — alive. While affirming the president’s authority to terminate the Deferred Action for...
Why Not Abolish the Police Unions? - The Bulwark
Some interesting new numbers from the Monmouth poll: Only 18 percent of voters think “defund the police” means “get rid of police,” while 77 percdent say it means “change the way police operate.” In other words, “most people view ‘Defund the Police’...
The Racial Tribulations of Trump Agonistes - The Bulwark
Even a visitor from Mars, admitted to the White House, would swiftly perceive that America’s biggest problem is not this overblown pandemic, but unreasonably ungrateful African-Americans who disrespect our storied history and the capacious spirit of...
College Football in a Pandemic—and What It Could Mean for the Election - The Bulwark
Could the decisions made about the NCAA football season affect public opinion in the swing states?
Trump's Presidency Is About to Enter Chapter 11 - The Bulwark
Donald Trump is losing—which is not news. He’s been losing to Joe Biden since the first hypothetical poll was taken pitting the two men against each other. But what has changed is that, by all accounts, Trump now knowshe’s losing. What he doesn’t...
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Trump’s presidency is going bankrupt. Which means that he will put himself first and get out with as much as he can, screwing over whoever he has to on the way out the door.
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Old, White, and Right: The Politics of The Villages - The Bulwark
How the fast-growing Florida community became so Trump-friendly.
Who Owns the Republican Party Now? - The Bulwark
1. Coincidence Here are some things that happened this week: The president of the United States went to the mattresses to stop military bases named in honor of Confederate soldiers from being renamed. One of the president’s fiercest keyboard...
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Normal Republicans may not understand how their party has changed. But the racists and the cranks do.
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The GOP Is Abandoning the American Idea - The Bulwark
Do we still hold the proposition that “all men are created equal” to be self-evident?
Let’s Make July Fourth a True Independence Day - The Bulwark
On July 5, 1852, the great African-American statesman Frederick Douglass asked a provocative question at a Rochester Independence Day event: “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” His question still resonates and demands that we come to grips...
Trump’s Mt. Rushmore Patriotpalooza - The Bulwark
There’s the patriotic way. And then there’s Trump's way.
Donald Trump Is All Done Caring - The Bulwark
His only reason for getting re-elected is so that he can keep having rallies.
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The problem for Trump is that his presidency has no point. It is as devoid of purpose as his days are of work. He doesn’t want to make America great. He wants America to make him feel great.
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Jeff Sessions Just Told Us Who He Is - The Bulwark
It’s not often that a man who has spent three and a half decades in public life opens a window into his truest self. But that’s what Jeff Sessions did in the course of a New York Times profile. Never has Maya Angelou’s famous dictum—“when someone...
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Never has Maya Angelou’s famous dictum—“when someone shows you who they are, believe them”—had more force. thebulwark.com/jeff-sessions-… via @BulwarkOnline
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Calculating the Cost of the Pandemic Shutdowns - The Bulwark
Not only did they save lives, they likely helped save the economy, too.
Bolton on Why Trump Likes Putin and Kim: "He Likes Being with the Other Big Guys" - The Bulwark
On today’s episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton came on the show to talk about Trump, Russia, and his book, The Room Where It Happened. This is a transcript of our conversation. Charlie Sykes:...
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John Bolton talks about the Russian bounties, Mike Pompeo's ambitions, and why Trump gets along so well with authoritarians.
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So Much for Trump’s ‘Love’ of the Military - The Bulwark
Christopher Slutman, 43, had always wanted to be a firefighter. He was that kind of kid, the kind who wants to save people. The son of a firefighter, he grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland and eventually made his way to the New York fire...
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Trump has made concern for “our great military” one of his calling cards. So where is his rage at Putin for putting targets on their backs?
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