Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy. Bulwark+ members can get a totally ad-free version of the show delivered right to their favorite podcast player.

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Sam Stein Used to Be a Thief
Aug 27, 2026
We’ve hit the August doldrums, so Tim is taking the daily pod on a little excursion. The Bulwark community delivered some epic mailbag questions, one of which prompted Sam to make one of the nerdiest…
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Neera Tanden: How to Win
Aug 26, 2026
The only likely way to end the nightmare of Trump—and Republicans supporting him no matter how much he ruins the country—is for Democrats to win in Republican-leaning states and congressional…
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Tracy Alloway and Will Sommer: A Cabinetful of Clueless Grifters
Aug 25, 2026
Yield curve control has gone mainstream (seriously, just ask the Asheville Beatnik with a message for Scott Bessent), so Tracy Alloway is here to explain the latest economic turmoil to Tim. Bessent’s…
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Bill Kristol: The Weak Bully Keeps Flailing
Aug 24, 2026
Canada flat-out rejected Trump’s terms in trade talks, so now it looks like we are going to have a trade war with our friends in the Great White North. Sorry, Maine. Sorry, bourbon industry. And in…
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George Conway: For Trump, Harp Strikes a Chord
Aug 21, 2026
Melania had to come out of hiding and practice her English after days of embarrassing coverage of Trump aide Natalie Harp. And now Harp’s newly released gushing notes to POTUS show unparalleled…
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David Wallace-Wells:  The Politics of AI Are Shifting in Real Time
Aug 20, 2026
Mark the summer of 2026 as the moment when an unlikely supermajority of Americans came together on one issue: their opposition to data centers. This new, big, messy coalition spans the political…
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Julia Curlee and Errin Haines: Cowards Are Running This Country
Aug 19, 2026
When Trump came back into power, his administration leaned heavily on former CIA analyst Julia Curlee to help safeguard our national security. The first CIA officer to transition openly, Curlee had…
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Tom Nichols: Impotence at the White House
Aug 18, 2026
Trump is flailing so badly on Iran. He dispatched Jared Kushner to negotiate with the regime but then denies that any talks are happening at all. He also threatened to bomb one ally and hammered…
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Andrew Egger: Trump’s Travels with Natalie
Aug 17, 2026
Thanks to a shrewdly-timed Jon Ossoff campaign event, a lot more people are suddenly learning about young and blonde Trump confidante Natalie Harp AKA ‘the human printer’—and one of only three aides…
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Sarah Longwell: Dems, Go on Offense FFS
Aug 14, 2026
When Graham Platner’s campaign was imploding, Republicans made sure to hang him around every Democrat's neck. Now, Democrats need to make Republicans own Rep. Max Miller, the alleged violent domestic…
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Adam Kinzinger: The United States of Dystopia
Aug 13, 2026
What a way to run a country: ICE thugs will soon have special gloves that deliver an electric shock to people they’re trying to detain; D.C. residents have to contend with National Guard troops on…
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Dave Weigel: Polls Wrong, Hong Gone
Aug 12, 2026
Democratic primary voters in Wisconsin didn’t care much for how hard Republicans were working to try to make democratic socialist Francesca Hong the Dems' nominee for governor. That whole strategy…
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Amanda Carpenter: Audit the White House
Aug 11, 2026
Trump may have the pardon power, but all those people making bank off of shady contracts from the administration or doing pay-to-play can lose all that money through forfeiture and seizure laws…
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Bill Kristol: Republicans Are a Mess
Aug 10, 2026
The party is sticking with Max Miller despite the very credible domestic abuse allegations. Not only is this a gift to his Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter, in that red district in Ohio, it’s…
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Susan Glasser: The Irredeemable Republicans
Aug 07, 2026
Tim got his hopes up that Bill Cassidy was going to come out against Blanche as AG. But of course, the senator showed once again that Republicans will do anything to stay on Team Trump—including…
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Sam Stein and Adam Hamilton: Trump’s Fabricated World Is Crashing
Aug 06, 2026
POTUS has always used lies to great advantage, but his fakery can’t disguise the dangerous reality that the United States is running out of missiles. What a time for Trump to don an SNL-grade wig…
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Jane Coaston: Pod Save Michigan
Aug 05, 2026
The polling was way off, but suburban Dem voters in Michigan nonetheless showed that they’re sick of the party establishment and enraged by Trump, the war, the lies, and the corruption. AIPAC didn’t…
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Charlie Warzel: The Tech Overlords’ Anti-Humanity Is Catching Up to Them
Aug 04, 2026
Sam Altman wants a supercomputer to talk to his kid so he doesn’t have to. Elon thinks Grok can make a better Odyssey than Christopher Nolan. And Silicon Valley has been cultishly hyping AI so much…
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Bill Kristol: Stop the Stupid Infighting, Dems
Aug 03, 2026
Both the left and center-left are acting like the other faction within the party is the enemy—and not Donald Trump. Democrats need to keep their eye on the ball: Trump and the corruption, lying, and…
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Bill Kristol and Margaret Donovan: Hegseth Should Be Impeached
Jul 30, 2026
At the very least, Hegseth's refusal to acknowledge that it was our Tomahawk missile that killed 120 schoolchildren on the very first day of the war makes him unfit to serve as secretary of defense…
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Jonathan V. Last and Robert Kagan: Marco and Miller Go Full Fascist
Jul 29, 2026
At a little-noticed conference on political violence a couple of weeks ago, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller employed the dehumanizing rhetoric of the Soviets and Nazi mastermind Joseph Goebbels to…
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Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng: The Groypers Have Taken over Trumpland
Jul 28, 2026
Stephen Miller has a free hand to pump out his racist policies; Trump regularly says blatantly offensive things that are way past a dog whistle; and one-time insurgents at the Heritage Foundation and…
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Bill Kristol and John Heilemann: Taking a Wrecking Ball to the Military
Jul 27, 2026
Not only has our lousy commander-in-chief allowed the country's missile inventory to be dramatically depleted, Hegseth's politicized hiring and firing of officers has come home to roost and is doing…
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No One Has Seen McConnell in Weeks—and His Office Just Recycled an Old Statement
Jul 24, 2026
Since we don't have an episode of The Bulwark Podcast for you today, we're sharing something a little different—a preview of The Secret Podcast. This is a show that JVL and Sarah do every week, which…
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Sarah Longwell and Alex Seitz-Wald: The Maine Thing
Jul 23, 2026
In 2026, everyone who follows politics has an opinion about Maine politics. Here’s the thing: a lot of people in Maine think they’re wrong. So, Sarah talked to a former national political reporter…
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David Frum and JVL: Iran Is Going to Make Trump Eat It
Jul 22, 2026
Trump keeps promising more bombs and bigger explosions in Iran, but the regime knows he’s just trying to disguise his retreat. And the Iranians are not going to back down until the whole world can…
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Joe Scarborough and Sam Stein: MAGA Doesn't Get America
Jul 21, 2026
Ronald Reagan said it best: One of the greatest sources of America's greatness are the people drawn to the country from every corner of the globe, who become American and keep the country young…
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Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol: We're Governed by Broken Men
Jul 20, 2026
Trump tried to steal the limelight and the valor of Spain at the World Cup, even as more troops died overseas; Stephen Miller regularly encourages ICE to be violent while Pete Hegseth pushes soldiers…
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Nicolle Wallace: The Sore Loser Is Trying to Ruin Our Elections
Jul 17, 2026
The one presidential election Trump lost was when he was in power and in charge of election integrity. Still, Trump is asking his supporters to believe the most preposterous lie yet: The elections…
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Michael Steele: Tripped up by Their Own Lies
Jul 16, 2026
The men serving Trump are so used to getting away with punking people, including too many members of the media, that they sometimes walk into a trap they don't see coming, and the truth slips out…
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