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Michael Steele on the Malice Aforethought of Trump
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On today's Bulwark Podcast, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about Ben Sasse's plan for survival, the RNC's unusual arrangement with President Trump to stymie his three challengers, how Elizabeth Warren survived...
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The Bulwark joins on today's podcast to discuss how the RNC is partnering with the Trump campaign to stymie challengers, Rudy's CNN interview, and how Ben Sasse is trying to survive in the era of Trump. 28h
How Did the Democrats Step on This Rake? Again?
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Last Saturday night, the Ghost of News Cycles Past blew in with a bizarre new twist in the year-old Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation drama. A New York Times essay by staff reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, adapted from their...
Everything You Need to Know About the DNI, the IG, and the Whistleblower Report
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The Trump administration is assaulting the rule of law. Again. And don’t count on any of the three branches of our government to repel it. This time, the Trump administration’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), relying on advice from Trump’s...
Why Is the Media Sleeping on Joe Biden?
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1. Biden Here’s the big headline over at Fox: “Fox News Poll: Biden at new low in Democratic primary race.” Yikes! That sounds really bad! Except that . . . well, here’s what the new Fox poll shows: Biden’s previous high in their poll was 35...
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The Bulwark Why Is the Media Sleeping on Joe Biden? 32h
Noah Rothman on the Rothman Doctrine
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On today's Bulwark podcast, Commentary's Noah Rothman joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss "The Rothman Doctrine" because when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh, there are no truths, only narratives.
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The Bulwark On this episode of the podcast, joins to discuss "The Rothman Doctrine"... which is that there are no truths, only narratives. 4d
Democrats Should Run Against the Trump Economy
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One thing stands between Donald Trump and the richly-deserved ignominy of a single term: the economy. Trump will attempt to rally his base through race-baiting and immigrant bashing. But that won’t suffice. Only an ostensibly strong economy can...
How the Right Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deplatforming
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One of the scariest words in the English language is “resurfaced.” It’s what happens—just by coincidence, surely—all too often when a famous person accomplishes something notable. Take, for example, Kyler Murray, now the starting quarterback for the...
No Enemies to the Right?
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Conservatives have long criticized liberals for what they see as a policy of “no enemies to the left.” That is, they said, liberals might not be socialists, communists, or revolutionaries, but they forbore criticizing such people. And they have a...
Politics of Bullshit
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“Hell yes,” Beto insists amid a flurry of f-bombs, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”  We are, I guess, supposed to take O’Rourke seriously but not literally when he says that he will confiscate 15 million guns from Americans, because,...
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The Bulwark Beto O'Rourke gives naiveté a bad name. 5d
Benjamin Wittes on Impeachment Nomenclature
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On today's Bulwark podcast, Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry.
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The Bulwark Catch today's podcast! joins to discuss the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry, the scope of what the House might do outside of the Mueller Report and much more 9d
No Man Is an Island (But Trump Is Getting Kind of Lonely)
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The most recent polling data shows that Trump’s August slide is fast becoming a September swoon. Worst of all from Trump’s perspective is that the polling data with the bleakest news comes from the more reliable polling firms. This data suggests...
David French on the Melee at CUA
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On today's Bulwark Podcast, National Review's David French joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the "Melee at CUA" and the problems of conservative illiberalism.
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The Bulwark On today's episode of the podcast, National Review's joins to discuss the "Melee at CUA" and the problems of conservative illiberalism. 10d
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The Bulwark Be sure to catch today's episode of the podcast with and discussing the "Melee at CUA" and the problems of conservative illiberalism. 10d
Three Ways the GOP Could Be Vastly Better on Race Relations
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The Trump moment in the GOP won’t last forever. Really. There will be a GOP after the cult of personality ends, and Republicans will have to decide on what that party will look like and try to accomplish. It’s vital that this soul-searching include...
What’s Next for Hong Kong?
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Over the last three months, the protests by millions of citizens in Hong Kong against the administration of Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Hong Kong’s chief executive, has assumed an almost David and Goliath character: the threat of massive military...
David French DESTROYS Sohrab Ahmari (and the idea of 'illiberal conservatism')
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Here are a few things that the New York Post’s Sohrab Ahmari, noted public Catholic intellectual, apparently believes: American Christianity is intolerably beset by tyrannical leftists, and its only hope for salvation lies in Missouri Sen. Josh...
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The Bulwark Sohrab Ahmari’s “ideological proposition” is little more than punching up for outrage clicks. 14d
Stephen Hayes on Fighting for Fight’s Sake
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Stephen F. Hayes joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the Packers, Sharpiegate, the French/Ahmari debate, and Pompeo's concern with the Taliban deal.
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The Bulwark joins on today's podcast to discuss the Packers, Sharpiegate, the French/Ahmari debate, and Pompeo's concern with the Taliban deal. 15d
Trump Is Trading Safe Schools for His Precious Wall, Which Is Really a Fence
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This week the secretary of defense notified Congress that 11 “military construction” projects on the international border with Mexico are “necessary to support the use of the armed forces.” Not a single foot of “wall” is to be built with the $3.6...
Tim Miller on Trump’s Doonbegdoggle
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On today's Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss his recent story on the Trump & Pence Ireland grift.
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The Bulwark On today's podcast, joins to discuss Trump's Doonbegdoggle, Sharpiegate, and the CNN climate debate. 16d
What the Pentagon Is Sacrificing to Pay for the Border Wall
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After months of speculation, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday which military construction programs would be scrapped to redirect funds to the wall along the Mexican border. The list of projects leaked quickly after the announcement, and...
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Cancel Culture Will Never Die. It Will Only Evolve.
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Something heretofore unseen in our era of wokeness happened on Wednesday. A man facing the destruction of his career by an outrage mob (or in this case, a single obstinate little drone with a reporter’s badge) was swiftly vindicated and made whole...