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How to Draw Nothing

Susan Glasser and Peter Baker: Trump's Hostile Takeover of the Government

A (Surprisingly) Happy New Year

Tim’s 2022 Music Year in Review

Do Androids Dream of Electric Stoves?

How to Draw Nothing

Wendell Berry’s Peculiar Patriotism

Maggie Haberman: Trump Is Damaged and He Causes Damage to Others

2022: A Consequential Year in Review

Wendell Berry’s Peculiar Patriotism

In Search of North America’s Great Unclaimed Writer

Donald Trump’s Dispatches From the Bunker

Jennifer Senior: Steve Bannon Is an Asymmetric Threat

The GOP’s George Santos Dilemma

Plagues of the Body and Plagues of the Mind

Donald Trump’s Dispatches From the Bunker

Greg Abbott: Scrooge

Nick Confessore: Tucker and the Most Racist Show in the History of Cable News

Is 'Glass Onion' a Satisfying Murder Mystery?

Get Ready for the Right's Bonfire of Vengeance

Should We Be More Skeptical of the ‘Digital Future’ After the COVID Experience?

Greg Abbott: Scrooge.

What the Jan. 6th Report Says About the Fake Electors Scheme

Michael Fanone: We Were Literally Fighting for Our Lives

Tucker Carlson and the Dangers of Crying Wolf

What the Jan. 6th Report Says About the Fake Electors Scheme

Putting the Jan. 6th Committee Report in the Context of America’s Democratic Story

Donald Trump’s Infamous 187 Minutes

The January 6th Report Takeaway: Trump Incited the Riot

The Future in One Word: ‘Sports Rights’

Tim Alberta: The Political Poisoning of the Evangelical Church

Trump isn't fighting DeSantis. He's fighting age.

How to Disempower the Extremists

James Cameron Movie Draft

What They Said Back Then

A Good Year For Authoritarians?

George Santos’s Problems Are Just Getting Started

The Case for ‘The Family Stone’

The 10 Best Films of 2022

Putting the Jan. 6th Committee Report in the Context of America’s Democratic Story

Putin’s Useful Idiots: Right Wingers Lose It Over Zelensky Visit

BONUS EPISODE: The Bulwark Goes Across the Movie Aisle

The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood

Eric Edelman: A Struggle Between Democracy and Tyranny

What Does Ron DeSantis Think About Zelensky's Speech?

The Science of High Frame Rate, Explained

2022 Beat All Expectations

MAGA's Meltdown Over Zelensky

The Evolution of a Christmas Antipasto

Trump’s Tax Returns Will Finally Be Revealed. It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Long.

Putin’s Useful Idiots: Right Wingers Lose It Over Zelensky Visit

Get That Money Zelenskyy!

Get That Money Zelenskyy! (VIDEO)

BONUS EPISODE: The Symmetry Between Zelensky's Visit and the Jan 6 Report

What Do the Jan. 6th Committee’s Criminal Referrals Mean for the Special Counsel Investigation?

Gen. Mick Ryan: The War in Ukraine, 10 months In

Ronna Romney McDaniel Might Be in Trouble

What It Was Like at TPUSA’s Post-Election AmericaFest

At the Well with the Loveladies

What Do the Jan. 6th Committee’s Criminal Referrals Mean for the Special Counsel Investigation?

The Naysayers are Wrong. Fusion Will Change the World.

The Jan. 6th Committee Recommends Prosecution for Trump

Will Saletan: He Wanted the Violence

Bring Trump to Justice

Does 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Justify a Trip to Theaters?

Cautionary Pundit Tales

There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

Piecing Together What Trump Knew and When He Knew It

Four Crimes: The Jan. 6th Committee Recommends Prosecution for Trump

Signals from the Supreme Court on Its High-Stakes Cases

The Jan. 6th Committee Report and the Continuing Threat of Political Violence

BONUS: The Next Level Takes Over The Bulwark

The Next Level Takes Over The Bulwark

The Republican Civil War Will Be a Culture War

Why Just Ban CRT?

Signals from the Supreme Court on Its High-Stakes Cases

Messaging Mark Meadows: Let’s Have Marshall Law!

War Logistics in a Globalized Economy

Three Cheers For Content Moderation

The Democrats Have a Deeper Bench Than You Think

Symone Sanders-Townsend: Let Joe Run

Adam Sandler: Comic Genius

About the Trump NFTs

Collect Them All!

Bad Science; Good Science

The Tear-Jerking Genius of Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'

Our Billionaire Trolls

The Democrats Have a Deeper Bench Than You Think

Right-Wing Creeps Claim Bringing Brittney Griner Home Was Woke

Breaking Out of the Walled Garden of Literature

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review

Podcast: It's a Bulwark Festivus [12/15/22]

DeSantis Sucks Up to the Anti-Vax Crowd

Derek Thompson: An Abundance Agenda for the Future

The DeSantis Anti-Vax Bullshit

The Ten Biggest Hollywood Fiascoes of 2022

Trump’s Treason

Brittney, Bots, and Bankman-Fried

DeSantis Sucks Up to the Anti-Vax Crowd

Here’s Why the Fusion Breakthrough—Decades in the Making—Matters

What Christopher Hitchens Can Teach Us About Liberalism

Ron's Junk Science

Ron's Junk Science (VIDEO)

You’re Only Leaving Trump Now?

It's a Bulwark Festivus [12/15/22]

Dan Vallone: The History Wars Are Not What They Seem

Biden’s Big Effing Gay Bacchanal

What Were You Thinking?

Are the ‘Twitter Files’ a Nothingburger?

The GOP Gets Ready to Cause Another Debt Ceiling Crisis

You’re Only Leaving Trump Now?

Clock Is Ticking on Chance to Fix the Electoral Count Act

Miracles Happen

Elaina Plott Calabro: MTG Is More Cunning than You Think

The Coup Texts

Are Awards Season Movies Doomed at Theaters?

What the AR-15 Does to a Child's Body

The Politics of Loneliness

Republicans Set to Punish Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism, Reward Marjorie Taylor Greene’s

Do Americans Even Know How to Agree?

Kari Lake’s Trumpian Lawsuit

The Republican Project to Break Your Email Account

Adam Kinzinger: The Torch Is Now with the DOJ (Encore Episode)

Elon Musk's Conservatism

Best of Morning Shots #1

The Republican Project to Break Your Email Account

It’s Time to Indict Donald Trump

The Rationale Behind South Carolina Becoming the First Dem Primary

Should an Election Denier Be Speaker of the House?

The New AI Is Magic

Podcast: Kanye. Elon. Trump. [12/8/22]

The Lesson of Trump: Character Matters.

Tim Miller: Nazis Bad, Constitution Good

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Should Win Best Picture

Special K

Kyrsten's Razor

What the New Trump Contempt Motion Tells Us About the Mar-a-Lago Documents Prosecution

Bibi is Back

Is 'Andor' the Best Star War Since 'Empire'?

Sinema's Independence Day

Reagan's Peace

The Torn Loyalties of Russian Liberals

The Lesson of Trump: Character Matters

Remember When Republicans Called Themselves the Pro-Constitution Party?

When Santa Breaks Bad

How Trump and MAGA Allies Are Defending Violent Jan. 6th Rioters.

A.B. Stoddard: A Most Delicious Circular Firing Squad

Democracy Can Win

How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood

Trump's Very Fine People

‘Andor’ Shows Us Star Wars Without Heroes

How Trump and MAGA Allies Are Defending Violent Jan. 6th Rioters

House GOP ‘May Dig Their Own Grave’ With Fringe Political Investigations

Mark Leibovich: DeSantis Is Not the Savior

The Next Level is going to Seattle

So Much #Losing

Free Speech Nudes (VIDEO)

Free Speech Nudes

House Republicans ‘May Dig Their Own Grave’ With Fringe Political Investigations

Warnock’s Victory Does Not Mean Georgia Has Turned Purple—Yet

Verdict: Trump’s Company Guilty of Fraud, Financial Crimes

Cowardice and Desperation: How Republicans Responded to Trump’s Constitution Comment

Why the Right Needs Hunter Biden

Book of Virtues?

Kori Schake: Rejecting Authoritarianism

The Invisible Primary Has Started. Here's How Trump Could Lose.

This Is The Greatest Movie of All Time

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

No, There Are No Red Lines

Will the Supreme Court Go Narrow or Broad in Ruling on Free Speech vs. Equal Protection?

Why the Right Needs Hunter Biden

The Problem with Making Rape Survivors Prove It

Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is GOP

Court Implodes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Defense

Will Saletan: Saying the Quiet Part Blaringly Out Loud

Trump Has Been Assaulting the Constitution From the Beginning

Terminating the Constitution

What's The Downside For Humoring Her?

Russia to Gays: Shut Up and Disappear

Court Implodes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Defense (and the Errant Judge Who Bought It)

Getting More Men to Teach in Early-Years Education

Trump Stands in the Middle of Fifth Avenue and Shoots the Constitution

Evil or Stupid: How Did FTX Make $8 Billion Disappear?

Midnight Train (Back) to Georgia (with Greg Bluestein)

No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden’s Dick Pic on Twitter

Tim Miller: A Week Full of Nazis

Netflix doesn’t care about theatrical pennies

Don't Do TikTok

The Chinese Ask for 'Cinema Freedom'

Man Cold

Kanye Clarifies a Few Things

Boy Troubles

Awards Season Lightning Round

Is the “China Model” Finally Failing?

Paying for Dinner

The Mismeasure of Ideology

Yes, He Will Burn It All Down

Dana Milbank: Even Kevin McCarthy Doesn't Trust Kevin McCarthy

Elon Musk’s Twitter Report Card

Projection Is the Sincerest Form of Trumpism

Disney's Parks Make Tons of Money — But Are They in Trouble?

Arizona's Groomer-in-Chief of Crazy

China’s Torment Is a Reminder of What We Have

Stuck With Ronna

Yes, He Will Burn It All Down

The Holodomor, 90 Years Later

Here’s Why This Seditious Conspiracy Verdict Matters

Ben Wittes: The Worst Story We Told Ourselves Was True

What Will Republicans Do About Gay Marriage Now?

It Was a Conspiracy. And It Was Sedition.

Here’s Why This Seditious Conspiracy Verdict Matters

The Traveling Circus of Nutjobs (with Sonny Bunch)

The Traveling Circus of Nutjobs (with Sonny Bunch) [VIDEO]

No, the U.S. Military Is Not Being Weakened by “Wokeness”

If Only Someone Could Have Warned Them

The (Nonpartisan) Polls Were Fine, Actually

What to Expect From a Kevin McCarthy Speakership

Oy Ye

Peter Wehner: Turning on Trump for the Wrong Reason

The Power of Populism

Why We Said You Can Skip 'She Said'

Does Elon Musk Understand...

Ten Things the GOP Loves About Herschel Walker

What to Expect From a Kevin McCarthy Speakership

A Letter to the DeSantis Fan-Boys From a Real Never Trumper

Assessing #MeToo, Five Years On

Will Saletan: Dining with a Nazi

We Made It All the Way Back to Normal 🙄

"I really like this guy. He gets me."

Assessing #MeToo, Five Years On

Winning Without Fighting

We Figured Out How to Beat the Authoritarian Censors

Thankful for Swing Voters (with Amy Walter)

Favorite Film Feasts

A Thanksgiving Message from Team Bulwark

Compassion, Forgiveness, and Love

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

This Thanksgiving, Listen

Members of Congress Crossing Ethical and Legal Lines in Trading Stocks

David Priess: Trump's Very Bad Day at Court

The World Order

Do Democrats Really Want Trump to Win the Republican Nomination?

The Thanksgiving Show

Some Thoughts About Gratitude

Club Q: Another Tragedy

Club Q: Another Tragedy

Trump’s Day in Court (and Court and Court and Court)

The Last Authoritarian World Cup

Kari Lake’s Election Denial Isn’t About 2022. It’s About 2024.

Members of Congress Crossing Ethical and Legal Lines in Trading Stocks

Mike Pence’s Day-By-Day Account of Trump’s Pressure Campaign Against Him

David Frum: House Republicans Aim for a Rerun

Politicians in Colorado Springs Chose Flouting Gun Laws Over People's Lives

Why Did Bob (Iger) Push Out Bob (Chapek) at Disney?

Kevin McCarthy's "Crossover" Problem

Trump’s Vision of Two Americas

Understanding the Real Value of U.S. Financial Aid to Ukraine

Mike Pence’s Day-By-Day Account of Trump’s Pressure Campaign Against Him

The Growing Religious/Secular Rift on the Illiberal Right

What Role Did Gerrymandering Play in Giving the GOP Its House Majority?

Tom Nichols: A 2016 Flashback?

How Trump Changed the Republican Party

The Hollow Men of the GOP

Changing My Mind on Climate

What Role Did Gerrymandering Play in Giving the GOP Its House Majority?

Appointing a New Special Counsel Was the Right Call

The Conservative Case Against the Independent State Legislature Doctrine

Elon. SBF. Elizabeth Holmes.

Can There Be Another Star in Trump's Cinematic Universe? (with David Drucker)

In 2024, Will Republicans Run on Abortion or Run Away From It?

Tim Miller: Sometimes Reality Sets In

Streaming Must Be a Revenue Source, not THE Revenue Source

She Was Worth the Trouble

The World Is Changed

Is The Twitterpocalypse Nigh?

Righting the Ship

What Should the Kids Be Reading?

‘The Menu’ Review

Rage Against the Machine and the Narrow ’90s

Falwell’s Downfall: The Pool Boy’s Story

In 2024, Will Republicans Run on Abortion or Run Away From It?

Where We Are Now [11/17/22]

The Diminishing Returns of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Mark McKinnon: The Message Still Matters

Mike Gerson and Christian Politics

How 'The Northman' Transported Us Back in Time

No Sex, Please. We’re Republicans.

Lies, Losing, and Low Energy: Trump Runs Again

How Hispanic Americans Think About Work and Identity

New Depths of Russian Insanity as Putin’s Ukraine Debacle Continues

Mike Pence's Brother Wants Him to Run in 2024

The Diminishing Returns of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Where We Are Now

Trump’s Authoritarian Promise.

David Corn: Trump Is Still a Threat

Are We Really Going to Run 2020 Again?

Will This Time Be Different?

Savoring Kevin McCarthy's Suffering (with Will Saletan)

Savoring Kevin McCarthy's Suffering (with Will Saletan) [VIDEO]

Pro-Lifers Need a New Strategy

Trump’s Authoritarian Promise

Revenge of the Never Trumpers

Trump Returns, Too Weak Not to Run Again

The GOP is Scrambling to Find a Culprit for the Midterms

Adam Kinzinger: Knives Out in the Nutcase Caucus

Should You See or Skip 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'?

Democracy was on the ballot. And attempts to end it were met with universal scorn.

Trump Will Burn It All Down

Republicans Are Scrambling to Find a Culprit for the Midterms

The Real Reason Trump Runs

Trump’s Case Against Responding to Congress’s Subpoena

Election Deniers: Down But Not Yet Out

Make. Them. Testify.

So Close Yet Shofar

Will Saletan: Gelded by the Nutcase Caucus

How Trump and DeSantis Will Attack Each Other

MAGA Meltdown

So Close Yet Shofar

Blame All the Single Ladies

Ukraine Could Eventually Retake Crimea. How Would Crimeans Respond?

From Red Wave to Red Trickle

Crypto and Twitter Are Imploding at the Same Time and It Is Glorious

What a Week!

Was It Really All Just Trump’s Fault?

Michigan Magic with Mallory McMorrow

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: A Taste of National Divorce

The Data Have Spoken: Abortion Was a Decisive Issue in the 2022 Midterms

Questions for New Never Trumpers

The Liberation of Kherson

The Day After

Best Movies of the Year (Pre-Awards Season Division

Was It Really All Just Trump’s Fault?

Supporting Veterans on Campus

‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Review

Conservatism Inc. Is Breaking Up With Trump. Again.

What's the Deal with 'Seinfeld'?

Tim O'Brien: He Will Burn It All Down

The Empire Strikes Back

The Biggest Loser

Normies > Crazies

Conservatism Inc. Is Breaking Up With Trump. Again.

If Mitch McConnell Is Still in the Minority It’s His Own Damn Fault

Revolution

Biden’s Silent Majority Is Still Trucking

Democracy Won The Midterms

Democracy Won The Midterms (VIDEO)

A.B. Stoddard: We Could've Been the United States of QAnon

Two January 6th Participants Elected to Congress

The 2022 Midterm Dunk Contest

The Knives Are Already Out

Biden’s Silent Majority Is Still Trucking

Heads Trump Wins, Tails Republicans Lose

Who's a Cuck? A new documentary about the pool boy.

After Big Win, DeSantis Styles Himself the Patron Saint of Freedom

Two Things to Watch for in the Midterm Results

Barbara Slavin: Fire Under the Ashes

The Empress of Trollistan: Kari Lake Is Having the Time of Her Life

You Should Go See 'Tár.'

Buckle Up

Tonight: Election Night Bulwark Livestream

Two Things to Watch for in the Midterm Results

Case After Case After Case: The GOP Keeps Suing to Toss Out Midterm Ballots

What Ails the American Male?

Yes, Democrats Have Called Some Elections Illegitimate. GOP Election Denialism Is Far Worse.

Josh Shapiro Makes His Closing Argument

Will Saletan: Only One God-King at a Time

The Happy Guide to the Midterms

Is the Man Who Attacked Paul Pelosi a Leftist?

Elon Musk, Savant Idiot?

The Return of Bibi and Lula

Josh Shapiro Makes His Closing Argument

Now Is Not the Time to Negotiate with Putin

Conspiracists Beware: Post-Election Lies Could Land You in Legal Hot Water

How to Play the 2022 Election Dice Game

Three Stories About the Death of Twitter

Election Eve Weekend Nerd Spectacular

The Ukraine War: Four Looming Challenges for Biden

Bill Kristol: Be Alarmed

‘Black Adam’ Shows Again that China is Lost to Hollywood

He's Baaack!

Popular

So ... Is 'Bros' Any Good?

Don’t Be Pauline Kael

Moral Illness

Want to Reduce ‘Deaths of Despair’? Try Antitrust Enforcement.

The Ukraine War: Four Looming Challenges for Biden

‘Tár’ Review

In the Final Turn, Oz is Closing

Podcast: The Election Is Nigh [11/3/22]

Why Dr. Oz Fears John Fetterman

Bart Gellman: The Impeachment of Joe Biden

End of Days

The Pelosi Attacker and the Horseshoe Theory of Politics

How the Business of Box Office Has Changed Over the Last 15 Years

The Anti-Anti-DePape Right

The Election Is Nigh [11/3/22]

Why Dr. Oz Fears John Fetterman

Now Is the Time to Solve the Iran Problem

Republicans’ Irresponsibility in Playing Political Games with the Debt Ceiling

It’s the Crime, Stupid

Elizabeth Williamson: It Started with Sandy Hook

Yes Virginia, There Are Good Republicans

"Falsehood Flies, And Truth Comes Limping After It"

Elon's Twitter Apocalypse

Elon's Twitter Apocalypse (VIDEO)

Bernard-Henri Lévy and the Heroes of Ukraine

Stop the Steal: The Sequel

The Unglamorous Work of Governing

What the Hell is Wrong with These People?

If Walker, Then Fetterman

Charlie Warzel: Elon's Disastrous Weekend

The Living Do Not Care About the Dead

Is Hollywood in a Regressive Moment?

"What the Hell is Wrong With These People?"

If Walker, Then Fetterman

Education Protests in Hungary Rock the Orbán Government

The GOP Can’t Whatabout the Pelosi Attack

Even the Sane Republicans Are Embracing Election Deniers

If McMullin Wins and Won’t Caucus With Either Party, What Happens?

Will Saletan: Elon Musk’s Hellscape

Elon Musk Is the New Donald Trump

An Attack, a Viral Lie, and Elon's Inferno

BONUS: Cucking Around At The Fontainebleau (with Billy Corben) (VIDEO)

BONUS: Cucking Around At The Fontainebleau (with Billy Corben)

Oversimplifying Hispanic Voters

If McMullin Wins and Won’t Caucus With Either Party, What Happens to His Committee Assignments?

The New Workplace Gender Imbalance: Social Capital and Job Satisfaction

The Renewed Relevance of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

Please God, Let Elon Musk Kill Twitter

A Little Thuggishness Is Called For (with James Carville)

A Moderate Running in Immoderate Times

Maggie Haberman: A Character Study of Trump — and America

The Coming Theatrical Crunch

JVL Smash

It's the "Crime," Stupid

A Contagion of Cruelty

'House of the Dragon' Season One Wrap Up

It's the Center That Is Strong and Principled

A Moderate Running in Immoderate Times

‘Bros’ and ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Reviews

What It Means to Be a Republican Today

Everyone Agrees Democracy Is in Danger. No One Agrees Why.

Podcast: Real Talk Ahead of the Midterms [10/27/22]

The Past, Present, and Future of the Romcom

These 4 Ballot Initiatives Might Tell the Future

Karen Tumulty: Are the Pundits Getting It Wrong?

The Hottest TikTok Challenge? Not Sharing Data with China

The Last Big Economic Report Before the Midterms Just Dropped

Dark Scenario Rising

Civilian Control

These Four Ballot Initiatives Might Tell the Future

Russian Infighting Could Be Just What Ukraine Needs

Horror Writer Peter Straub, an Outsider in the Mainstream

Russians Accuse Ukraine of Nazism—But Look at How Russian Propagandists Talk

Ted Cruz’s Shadow Presidential Campaign

Robert Draper: Weapons of Mass Delusion

John Fetterman and the Media's 2024 Problem

A Carnival of Shambolism

Ron DeSantis & Kari Lake: The MAGA King & Queen

Ted Cruz’s Shadow Presidential Campaign

Republicans Test Their Dumb Luck in Wisconsin

Ron DeSantis & Kari Lake: The MAGA King & Queen

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Pennsylvania Debate

Useful Idiots Redux

Real Talk Ahead of the Midterms [10/27/22]

The Midterms’ Stakes for Democracy: A Scenario

Franklin Foer: Donald Trump Will Be Indicted

Russia's Dirty Bomb

Is 'Black Adam' a Must-See or a Must-Skip?

Remembering Ashton Carter

"An Olive Branch To A War Criminal"

He Couldn’t Stand on the Sidelines When an Election Denier Ran for Re-Election

No, ‘Russiagate’ Wasn’t the Hoax That Team Trump Claims It Was

COVID Devastated Education. This Is a Chance for Renewal.

The Midterms’ Stakes for Democracy: A Scenario

Democrats Need to Know What Time it Is

Will Saletan: Liars and Fraudsters Can Still Win

Moral Panics and Authoritarianism

Liz Cheney Scorches the Pro-Putin Wing of the GOP

Vladimir Putin, Kevin McCarthy, and the Ukraine War

Federal Judge Once Again Notes Trump’s “Likely” Post-Election Crimes

Democrats Need to Know What Time It Is

The People He Needs to Be Hurting

Critics and Audiences Often Disagree. It’s Not a Big Deal.

Reggie Oliver, Discovered Gem

About Those Anti-Immigration Ads Airing During the MLB Playoffs

Roger Scruton and the Fascists Who Love Him

Arizona: Psychologically Unfun (with Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer)

Here’s How the Election Deniers Are Performing in the Polls—and Why

The Bulwark Goes Live

Making the Switch from R to D

The Bulwark Live, with Michael Fanone

The Weakness of Strongmen

On 'Athena,' One of the Best Movies of the Year

Michael Fanone Has Some Things He’d Like To Say About Kevin McCarthy

Is Gravity Real?

Dangerous Republicans, Constipated Democrats, Surprising Standouts

‘Black Adam’ Review

Here’s How the Election Deniers Are Performing in the Polls—and Why

From Dog Whistle to Rebel Yell

Can Congress Get a Witness?

Adam Hochschild: American Midnight

Republicans Are Suddenly Doing A Little Bit Better Everywhere. Why?

Who Won the Summer—and Who Lost?

The Right Normalizes Anti-Semitism

Can Congress Get a Witness?

No, Kevin McCarthy, Our Aid to Ukraine Is Not a ‘Blank Check’

Why Are You a Patriot?

Trump Shouldn’t Testify Before the Jan. 6th Committee—But He Might

Jake Sherman: What McCarthy Told Me

What If It *Is* the End of History, But Liberalism Loses?

Kevin McCarthy's Chaos Agenda

He Gets You Hot In A Bad Way

Glenn Youngkin Believes in “Parents’ Rights”—But Only for the “Right” Kinds of Parents

Attack Ads Are Darkening the Skin Tone of Black Candidates

Trump Shouldn’t Testify Before the Jan. 6th Committee—But He Might

He Gets You Hot In A Bad Way (VIDEO)

Mike Lee’s Golden Rule

Do Voters Want Jerks?

Will Saletan: Why Aren't People Voting on Democracy?

Things Fall Apart

Why Does Kanye Want Parler?

Elon Musk is Putin's (and China's) Useful Idiot

Twitter’s Biggest Problem Is That It Is Awesome

Progressive Bigotry and the L.A. City Council Controversy

Mike Lee’s Golden Rule

The End of the Good Republicans

Adam Kinzinger: Unplugged

Kanye's Parler Pig-in-a-Poke

Is Romney's Non-Endorsement Really Puzzling?

On Putin’s ‘Outright Satanism’

Mike Lee’s Trumpist Transformation

The End of the Good Republicans

Furrygate: A Litterbox of Lies

The Walker-Warnock Debate and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

On Toxic Media

Georgia: Ticket-Splitting On Our Mind (with Molly Ball)

The Munich Model for Trump’s National Security Extortion

Ukraine Needs Missile Defense

How Putin’s Latest Attempts to Escalate in Ukraine Have Backfired

Denver Riggleman: Why I Wrote It

Horror Movies Still Put Butts in Seats

Let Me Tell You What I Want

Disney Gambles on Sports

A Coup in Three Tweets

Is a Utah Senate Upset in the Cards? (with Evan McMullin)

We'll Do It Live

We Don’t Need to Know Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6th

How Putin’s Latest Attempts to Escalate in Ukraine Have Backfired

‘Halloween Ends’ Review

Podcast: The Secret Show Takes Over TNB [10/13/22]

How the Federal Budget Process Intensifies Partisanship.

Dana Milbank: The Alien Lizard Party

The January 6th Committee Subpoenaed Trump. Now What?

Trump's Semi-Loyal Collaborators

The Assholery of Kanye West

Happy Birthday Mr. Dictator

Alex Jones's Billion Dollar Lies

Does the 'Perfect Sound' Exist?

The Secret Show Takes Over TNB [10/13/22]

What’s Left for the January 6th Committee?

How the Federal Budget Process Intensifies Partisanship

The Tricky Terrors of H.P. Lovecraft

Kari Lake’s ‘Perfect Answer on Abortion’

Lucy Caldwell: Fetterman Should Have Dropped Out

What Happens If Putin Falls Out of a Window?

"A Concierge at a Rock Star Hotel"

Tulsi. Vance. And Yes, Kanye. (VIDEO)

Tulsi. Vance. And Yes, Kanye.

Supreme Court to Hear Cases on Content Policing

Tim Ryan’s Alpha Maneuver

Kari Lake’s ‘Perfect Answer on Abortion’

Iranians Want Democracy. Who Are We to Say No?

Trump's Geldings

Tim Ryan Muddles Through

David Frum: Biden's Blurt Problem

Joe Biden Just Crushed China's Semiconductor Industry

Is 'Amsterdam' the Flop of the Fall?

Four Things You Really Ought to Read Today

What’s Ahead for the Voting Rights Act?

Tim Ryan Muddles Through

The Herschel Walker Abortion Exceptions Policy

The Question Ted Cruz Can’t Answer

Julian Zelizer: Living with Fear of Nuclear Weapons, Again

“Kanye. Elon. Trump.”

Peace Prize Pettiness

The Question Ted Cruz Can’t Answer

Remember When Jordan Peterson Was a Thing?

He Scares the Crap Out of Me (with Holly Otterbein)

The Astronaut and the Alien

Bill Kristol: Degeneracy Is the Norm

The new Knives Out is going to be in theaters! (Kinda.)

Have We Really Thought This Legal Weed Thing Through?

Can Hollywood Save Journalism?

Ben Sasse Is About To Be Tested. Bigly.

Courting Trouble? (with Prof. Steve Vladeck)

Herschel

The Prescient Literary Visions of Vladimir Voinovich

‘Amsterdam’ Review

Podcast: The Politics of Hypocrisy

The Astronaut and the Alien

Merging Politics and Celebrity is Bad for Democracy

Major Garrett & David Becker: How a Second Civil War Could Start

Why Isn't Brian Kemp the Post-Trump Republican Future?

Is Ron DeSantis Trump’s Heir or Just a Wannabe?

How Cult Classic 'John Dies at the End' Kicked Off a Literary Career

Ruy Teixeira’s Warning to the Democrats

The Politics of Hypocrisy [10/6/22]

Brian Evenson and the Basics of Violence

Apathy Keeps Russia’s Death Cult Alive

Merging Politics and Celebrity is Bad for Democracy

Fox News: Putin Propaganda Primetime

Ruy Teixeira: Some Tough Love for the Democrats

Elon Musk: Chaos Monkey

Herschel Walker is a Preview of 2024

Putin’s Crazy Days

One Month Out, Who Has the Momentum in Pennsylvania?

Fox News: Putin Propaganda Primetime

The Total Triumph of Buchananism

Poor, Poor Pitiful Tim Michels

Oppo October (VIDEO)

Oppo October

Kara Swisher: Our Careless Oligarchs

About the Organic Chemistry Professor Who Got Fired for Giving Bad Grades

Should Billy Eichner Blame Homophobes for 'Bros' Bombing?

The Trump Before Trump: Krauthammer's Warning

Herschel Walker Allegations: Will He Drop Out of the Race?

The Evangelical Turn Toward Politics and Entertainment

Poor, Poor Pitiful Tim Michels

What Lizzo Can Teach Conservatives About American History

Kevin McCarthy’s Plan to Benghazi the Bidens

Will Saletan: Shrugging in the Face of Threats of Violence

It's Not Both Sides

The GOP’s “Coco Chow” Moment

How the Broken Immigration System Took a Toll on My Love for America

How Much Do Putin’s Annexations Really Matter?

Kevin McCarthy’s Plan to Benghazi the Bidens

Hurricane Ian and What We Owe to Each Other

George Washington Wouldn't Tolerate Furries(with Charlie Sykes)

Putin Compounds His Bad Decisions

Tim Miller: Why Lizzo Triggers Ben

Sing a Song of Fetterman

Studios Suddenly Realizing Box Office Revenue Is Good, Actually

Welcome to Cold War 2

Our Unchristian Churches (with Peter Wehner)

'Avatar'-Mania: Do You Have It?

Reliving a Sordid Chapter in American History

‘Blonde’ Review

Olaf Scholz and Why Germany Is Failing to Lead

Putin Compounds His Bad Decisions

Swing Voters and the New Abortion Reality

Podcast: Turn Up the Dark [9/29/22]

The Neverending Story (of Trump’s Grift)

Susan Glasser & Peter Baker: A History and a Warning

Remember the Time Trump Wanted the Navy to Hide the USS John McCain?

Will Putin Go Nuclear?

How 'Orphan: First Kill' Beat Expectations

MAGA's New Mantra: "Blame America First"

The Liz Truss Buttress

Iran’s Celebrities Finally Break Their Silence

The Neverending Story (of Trump’s Grift)

Kevin McCarthy: The Gimp Who Thinks He’s a Master

What Country Is the Wall Street Journal Living In?

Tom Nichols: Clowns with Flame Throwers

Soft Bois Eventually Give Way to Hard Men

Turn Up the Dark

The Right’s Lust for Violence

The Soft Bois of Populist Nationalism

The Soft Bois of Populist Nationalism (VIDEO)

The Electoral Count Act Is Actually an Engineering Problem

What Country Is the Wall Street Journal Living In?

Six Weeks Out, the Statewide Pennsylvania Races Solidify

A Star Is Not Born

Oz Steps Into an Open Manhole

Can Wes Moore’s Progressive Patriotism Make Him a Democratic Star?

A.B. Stoddard: The Super Kooks

How Biden Could Have Fixed the Student Loan Problem

Should You See 'Don't Worry Darling'?

The Sublime and the Shambolic

Judges, Justice, and Donald Trump

Is the United States Ready for the Next Nuclear Era?

The Dictator and the Diva

Can Wes Moore’s Progressive Patriotism Make Him a Democratic Star?

The Internet Is a Playground for Tyrants

Tim O'Brien: For Trump, It's Always about the $$$

How Much Legal Exposure Does Trump Really Have?

Democracy Is Too Important To Be Left To the Lawyers. But. . .

One Key to Social and Economic Opportunity: Friendship

The Internet Is a Playground for Tyrants

Letitia James and Trump’s Costly Lies

The Russian Obscenity

"Lesser of Two Evils" Drinking Game (with Natalie Allison)

What the Ukrainians Need to Succeed

Tim Miller: Can We Indict Him Just by Thinking about It?

‘Confess, Fletch’ and the Dire State of Big Screen Comedies

Court Is Trump's Kryptonite

The 'Dragon' Versus the 'Ring'

O Dearie (Again)

Trump and Putin Both Had a Bad Week (with Benjamin Wittes)

Russia Is a Dangerous Place To Take a Fall

What Hardship Kitsch Does for Comfortable Millennials

The Weakness of the Strongman

What the Ukrainians Need to Succeed

‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review

GOP Hopes ‘Crime Talk’ is a Golden Ticket for Midterm Candidates.

Jonathan Lemire: How Do You Cover an Insurrectionist?

Bad Gets Worse

China's Looming Threat to the World of Gaming

The Art of the Steal

Gay Marriage Bill Delayed in the Senate

Appeals Court Lets the FBI Resume Work on the Mar-a-Lago Document Trove

GOP Hopes ‘Crime Talk’ is a Golden Ticket for Midterm Candidates

The Black Silent Majority

‘Special Master’ to Trump: “You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It”

Stephanie Slade: The NatCons’ Will to Power

Democrats Have Destroyed the American Economy! But Also the Economies of Georgia / Florida / Texas Are Booming?

Merrick Garland's Red Line

Troll Wars (VIDEO)

Troll Wars

Don’t Blame the Immigrants. It’s Our Laws That Are Criminal.

‘Special Master’ to Trump: “You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It”

Greg Abbott’s Failures Mean Texas Could Suffer Another Freezing Winter Blackout

The Six Things You Need to Know About the Hijab Protests in Iran

Oh Dearie!

How the Second Civil War Could Start

Dylan Byers: What's Going On at CNN?

Will the Martha’s Vineyard Stunt Help DeSantis? Or Hurt Him?

Is 'The Rings of Power' Worth Your Time, Precious?

Did DeSantis Really Think This Through?

The Power of Words and the Need to Protect Free Speech

The Chaotic Politics of Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Bill

The Cruelty and Dishonesty of the DeSantis Immigration Stunt

How the Second Civil War Could Start

Trump’s ‘Save America’ Scam

Will Saletan: Nice Little Democracy You Got There

The Progressive Delusion of Co-Ed Sports

This Storm *Is* Coming

Trump’s ‘Save America’ Scam

Kemp-Warnock Voters: They’re Real And They’re Spectacular

What the House of Windsor Does

Having a President vs. Having a Monarch

Robots, NatCons, and the Zombie Apocalypse

What Happens in Vegas Won't Stay in Vegas (with Jon Ralston)

Public Opinion at 100.

Tim Miller: LOLs in DeSantis-Stan

Make Your Own Caravan

Prime Video, a Fully Armed and Operational Streaming Network

The GOAT Walks Away

10 Years of A-Plus Movies from A24

Imagining Victory (with Noah Smith)

The Cruelty and the Crazy

<em>Public Opinion</em> at 100

‘The Woman King’ Review

Podcast: Ukraine is Winning [9/15/22]

The Ukraine War: How Does It End?

Catherine Rampell: The Economy Is Weird Right Now

Failing in the Field, Russia Targets Ukraine’s Civilian Infrastructure

Ron DeSantis Has Learned Trump’s Most Important Insight

Chris Murphy: “Since Sandy Hook I’ve Been Trying to Make Up for Lost Time”

The NFL: Ratings King

General Mark Hertling: Russia's Army Is Terrible. But It's Not Over.

The Ukraine War: How Does It End?

The ‘Great Replacement’ Delusion

Zelensky Reminds Us What Politicians Are Good For

What Happens After Khamenei Dies?

General Mark Hertling: Russia’s Awful Army

Always Trust The General!

Video Replay: Ukraine Is Winning [9/15/22]

All The GOP’s Faustian Bargains

Can We Have Nice Things?

Can We Have Nice Things? (VIDEO)

What Happens After Khamenei Dies?

On Gay Marriage, Senate Republicans Are Out of Step With the Republican Base

Conservatives Are the New Useful Idiots

Anti-anti-Putin Republicans

Free Money for Me But Not for Thee

David Corn: How the GOP Unleashed the Furies

Doug Mastriano and the Fifty-Foot Shark

'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Versus the Discourse

Will the U.S. Abandon Ukraine? It Could Happen.

Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022

Why Russia's Military Got Ukraine So Wrong

Free Money for Me But Not for Thee

Heeding the Monkeypox Warning

Ukraine’s Momentum, Putin’s Fears

Will Saletan: A Tribute to Ukraine

Why Ukraine Is Winning

What It’s Like to Get Texts Every Day From Afghans Fleeing Taliban Persecution

Ukraine’s Momentum, Putin’s Fears

The Risk of the Right-Wing Push to Rewrite the Constitution

The New York Times vs. The Washington Post

The Head vs the Heart in Big Ten Country (with Tim Alberta)

Revisiting Casanova After #MeToo

Bill Kristol: The Intersection of Trump and Roe

Regal’s Rough Summer

Going on Offense

Tilda and Idris, Two of Our Faves

Bittersweet

Reading Midterm Tea Leaves (with Josh Barro)

The Character of a Queen

‘Barbarian’ Review

Revisiting Casanova After #MeToo

Living in a Home that Breathes

Podcast: Welcome to the Thunderdome | [9/8/22]

The Battle Over Diversity Training.

David Priess: Why Trump Did It

How to Write a Best-Selling Political Book

"Iron Fists" Are "Smart"

Biden’s Warning, Trump’s Ranting

Reminder: When Romney Lost, Trump Called for “A Revolution”

Ron Johnson’s Latest Fiction: He's a Man of the People

Jay Cronley’s Unusually Funny Movies

Iran’s Nuclear Sites Are Vulnerable, and Iran Can’t Deter an Attack—For Now

The Battle Over Diversity Training

My Neighbor, the Presidential Candidate.

Mike Murphy: Democrats Should Run like They're Five Points Behind

Welcome to the Thunderdome [9/8/22]

Liar’s Poker

A Risible Ruling

Persuasion (VIDEO)

Persuasion

Why Is France Having a Cow Over Meat?

Let Donald Trump Have His Special Master

My Neighbor, the Presidential Candidate

Will Greg Abbott Pay a Political Price for Texas’s Faulty Power Grid?

Amanda Carpenter: Need to Know

So, How Was Your Summer?

Serena and MAGA

Trying to Win MAGAs Over Is Not Appeasement

Why (and How) Biden Should Decline to Run Again

Will Greg Abbott Pay a Political Price for Texas’s Faulty Power Grid?

Hashing it out.

Make Politics Boring Again, Please

Why the First Supreme Court Impeachment Was the Last (So Far)

Mitch Daniels: Raised Four Wonderful Daughters and Fixed the BMV

How Joe Biden Should Talk About Semi-Fascism

Netflix's Interesting Ad Model

Are Critics and Audiences Diverging More than Usual?

Hey America: Let's Hug It Out

He Is a Sucking Black Hole of Disaster (with Megan McArdle)

Why the First Supreme Court Impeachment Was the Last (So Far)

‘Thirteen Lives’ and ‘Samaritan’ Reviews

Brian Kemp’s Running Mate Is a Fake Elector

James Carville: Better Constipated than Evil

How Anime Can Help Save Theaters

Sarah Palin Lost Because She Doesn't Have a Cult

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness

Fake Elector, COVID and Kids, and "Semi-Fascism"

Brian Kemp’s Running Mate Is a Fake Elector

What COVID Revealed About Our Kids

“Semi-Fascism”: The Shoe Fits

The Biden Doctrine

Bakari Sellers & Lis Smith: Can Dems Do Better in Red America?

The Accidental Great Man

Threat Analysis (VIDEO)

Threat Analysis

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931–2022

Another Weirdness of the COVID Labor Market

The Biden Doctrine

Republicans’ Three Paths on Abortion.

Alex Holder: A Weird, Simple Man

Is Sedition Now A Policy of the GOP?

Does Hollywood Gossip Sell Tickets?

The American Dream, Abortion, Ukraine and Courting Older Voters

How the American Dream Became a Political Cudgel

Putin Thinks He Can Wait Out U.S. Support for Ukraine

Republicans’ Three Paths on Abortion

Biden Is Going on Offense To Court Older Voters

How Team Trump Breached the Election System

Will Saletan: Biden Is Playing to the Middle

Trump Is Trying To Extort America

The Mystery of the Missing Republican Ad Money

How Team Trump Breached the Election System

The “Banana Republic” Fallacy

America Can Still Do Hard Things

Vibe Check (with Tim Miller)

Imperial Russia, Past and Present (with John Herbst)

The Rushdie Controversy, for a New Generation.

Tim Miller: Wait, Are You Getting Squishy?

Anime vs. A24; or, The Box Office of Vibes

Elon Musk Is An Idiot

Can 'Game of Thrones' Bring Us Together?

The Military and the Fate of Democracy

Student Loan Meh

How to Defeat Putin . . . and Trump (with Eric Edelman)

Learning from <i>Ghosts</i>

The Rushdie Controversy, for a New Generation

Should Russian Culture Be ‘Canceled’ Over the Ukraine Invasion?

‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review

Charles Kesler Sees the Light

James Hohmann: The Dems’ Squad Fatigue

Freedom of Expression Under Assault

Student Loan War Mania

The Dobbs Backlash is Real

Charles Kesler Sees the Light

The Right’s Ironic Fixation on Roman Virtues

The Dugina Killing Aftermath

Team Normal’s New Hampshire Nightmare

Elliot Ackerman: Leaving Afghanistan, One Year Later

Everything’s Coming Up Brandon!

Blue Undertow (VIDEO)

To Charge or Not to Charge

Blue Undertow

Try Trump at the Ballot Box, Not in Court

Reflections on My Mom’s Eviction

Team Normal's New Hampshire Nightmare

Fight! Fight!

Missouri’s Last Sane Republican

Nicole Hemmer: When the Line between Politics and Entertainment Disappeared

'She-Hulk' vs. 'House of the Dragon'

Is Warner-Discovery "Fixing" CNN?

Forgiving Student Loans: Bad Politics, Bad Policy

The Problem With Right-Wing ‘Regime’ Talk

Not Everybody Has to Run for President

The Islamic Republic Is Killing Islam in Iran

Missouri’s Last Sane Republican

White Christian Nationalism, Out in the Open

Amanda Carpenter: Need to Know

He's Baaaack!

Florida Swing Voters Aren’t Sold on DeSantis or Rubio

White Christian Nationalism, Out in the Open

The Death of Dugina

Team Normal Sucks

The Florida Man Thunderdome (with Marc Caputo)

Trump Acted as Though the Military Swore an Oath to Him Personally

Tim Miller: Sad Turtle Mitch

‘Beast’ Review

Kari Lake > Ron DeSantis

I'm Sorry, That's Classified

A Native Boom

Trump was Breitbart. DeSantis is Infowars.

The DeSantis Mirage

Trump Acted as Though the Military Swore an Oath to Him Personally

‘Orphan: First Kill’ Review

Shut Down the Cheney 2024 Chatter

Philip Bump: A Reminder that the "Russia Hoax" Is a Hoax

Meet the (One-Time) 7th-Most-Powerful Man in Wrestling

The Clown Prince of Trumplandia

Protecting The Donald

Shut Down the Cheney 2024 Chatter

Polio Is Back. Trust the Vaccines.

Is It 1858 or 1838?

Liz vs. Nikki

The MAGA Crowd May Venerate 1776...

Braveheart (VIDEO)

Braveheart

Tom Nichols: She's Daring Them to Pick Sides

The Anti-Anti-Trump Theory of Liz Cheney's Loss

"Now, The Real Work Begins"

What’s Missing from the CHIPS Act

The MAGA Crowd May Venerate 1776 But They Idolize a Would-Be Monarch

Does Preserving Democracy Require Letting Trump Off?

Special Preview: Voters React to the News of the Mar-a-Lago Raid

Afghan Refugees in the U.S. Need Help

Crazies Leavened by Cowards

Charlie Warzel: Alex Jones' Footprint of Misery

Is 'Prey' a Good 'Predator' Movie?

Would the GOP Nominate an Indicted Trump?

Liz Cheney’s Fight Isn’t Over

Afghan Refugees in the U.S. Need Help

Smaller, Safer Nuclear Power

‘But Her Emails’—Trump’s Dishonest Whataboutism

Liz Cheney’s Staunch Constitutionalism

The Salman Rushdie Attack and the Protection of Free Speech

Will Saletan: They Keep Negotiating with Their Own Hostage-Takers

A Terrible Year

The Salman Rushdie Attack and the Protection of Free Speech

Trump’s Investigation Miscalculation

Trump vs. The Pizza Place Senator (with Bill Kristol)

Donald Trump’s O.J. Defense

Jonathan Martin: Liz Cheney's Political Awakening

Return of the Ads

Merrick Garland Gets to the Point

Trains: Among our Oldest Cinematic Subjects

GOP vs. Rule of Law (with Ted Nordhaus)

The Big Bad Week

Mar-a-Lago Goes NUCLEAR

‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Review

Donald Trump’s O.J. Defense

Trump’s Ugly Comedy of Hate

It's All About the Hydrogens

Podcast: Does the GOP Want Civil War? [8/11/22]

Ukraine’s Strike in Crimea Could Be a Turning Point in the War

Dana Milbank: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the GOP

Why Do Streamers Care About More than Eyeballs?

Biden Should Make Way for... No One?

Buckle Up: Ugly Politics Ahead

Trump Pleads the Fifth

Peak China and the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands and Michael Beckley)

Ukraine’s Strike in Crimea Could Be a Turning Point in the War

What’s Behind Amnesty International’s Victim-Blaming in Ukraine?

Alex Jones Isn’t Going To Pay $45.2 Million in Damages

Does the GOP Want Civil War? [8/11/22]

Republicans Are Rooting for Civil War

James Wigderson: From Paul Ryan to Paranoia

Let’s Talk About Good Things

Everything All At Once (VIDEO)

A Uniquely Dangerous Moment

Everything All At Once

Republicans Are Rooting for Civil War

Tilting Our Politics Back Toward Democracy

How a Flaw in the Nominations Process Risks National Security

The FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago: Five Takeaways and Questions

Peter Wehner: The GOP Thinks Trump Is above the Law

Does the 'Batgirl' Cancellation Make Sense?

‘Defund the FBI’—the MAGA Right’s Hypocritical New Slogan

There's a Storm Coming

The DOJ Crosses the Rubicon

The Rediscovering of David McCullough

Ron DeSantis Endorses Election Deniers

The FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago: Five Takeaways and Questions

With Enough Help, Ukraine Can Win

Will Saletan: It's Not Just Trump, It's Party-Wide

No One Despises MAGA Voters More Than MAGA Elites

I’m Sorry, But He’s Running

‘Prey’ Review

With Enough Help, Ukraine Can Win

Orbán’s CPAC Fibs and Flubs

Alex Jones Gets His Reality Check

Deplorables Are Real

The Laughingstock of Wisconsin (with Charlie Sykes)

Democrats Are Running as Opposition Party

Tim Miller: When Bad Things Happen to Bad People

Streaming Is a Black Hole of Financial Loss

Yin and Yang

How the Youngkin Model Deals with Racist Supporters

Kansas Shocker (with A.B. Stoddard)

What The Right's Embrace of Orbán Tells Us

Democrats Are Running as Opposition Party

‘Bullet Train’ Review

The Unpresidential Vulgarity of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’

The Warrior-Cop Ethos and the Stand-Around Cops in Uvalde

Podcast: Reading Midterm Tea Leaves [8/4/2022]

The Distinct Shame of Senate Republicans.

Convention Life with the Creator of Effin' Birds

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Andrew Yang: Who's up for a Third Party?

Biden’s Turn-Things-Around Strategy

The John Fetterman - Mandela Barnes 2022 Experiments

What Did Kansas Tell Us About Abortion?

Bob Rafelson, 1933-2022

What Do We Know About Russia’s Forcible Deportations of Ukrainians?

The Distinct Shame of Senate Republicans

The Fate of Pro-Impeachment House Republicans

Josh Kraushaar: If Only You'd Been Warned

Replay: Reading Midterm Tea Leaves

What Are YOU Doing To Protect “Good Republicans” From Their Voters?

Manchin Pwns The Cons (VIDEO)

Manchin Pwns The Cons

The Good, Bad, and Very Ugly

The Fate of Pro-Impeachment House Republicans

Missouri GOP Primary: An Awkward Ending to an Embarrassing Race

We Need an America First Immigration Policy

Joe Manchin’s Word Games

GOP Senators Step on a Rake

Rachel Kleinfeld: Republicans Have a Militia Problem

Killing al-Zawahiri Matters

'The Gray Man' or the Gray Meh?

Why Garland Should Go Big

Xi Jinping’s Favorite Television Shows

Joe Manchin’s Word Games

Don’t Look Away from the War Crimes in Ukraine

About Dem Ads

The CHIPS Act Is Popular, Bipartisan, and a Bad Idea

Will Saletan: Hot Joe Summer

Joe Manchin Was Right About Pretty Much Everything

Republicans Explain Why They’re Cooling on Trump

Housing, Homelessness, and the Elephant in the NIMBY Room

The CHIPS Act Is Popular, Bipartisan, and a Bad Idea

Why Did Harvey Weinstein Get Away With It For So Long?

The Electable Election Deniers (with Tim Alberta)

Who Would Staff a Second Trump Term?

Tim Miller: The Politics of Petulance

How did Harvey Weinstein Get Away With It for So Long?

Where My Third-Party People At?

Party On, Dude

Podcast: To Pardon or Prosecute [7/28/22]

Indict Them All? (with Nicholas Grossman)

What's Your Favorite Alien Design?

"We'd Take Apart the Black Sea Fleet"

Did America Get China Wrong? (with Professor Aaron Friedberg)

‘Vengeance’ Review

You’re Not Too Good for Tourism

Who Would Staff a Second Trump Term?

So You Want To Start a Third Party?

Mike Pence Sold His Soul for Nothing

Adm. James Stavridis: An Endgame in the Russia-Ukraine War?

Harvey Weinstein's Enablers

Is Ron DeSantis a Paper Tiger?

Crackups, Proxy Wars, and Third Parties

To Pardon or Prosecute [7/28/22]

The Yinzers vs. The Jagoff

Mike Pence Sold His Soul for Nothing

Do American ‘National Conservatives’ Condone Orbán’s White Nationalism?

The Bullhorn and the Dog Whistle

The Secret Service’s Inexcusable Document Destruction

James Poniewozik: They Knew They Had a Thriller on Their Hands

Let's Get Loaded

The Next Level: Stop Trying To Make Pence Happen, It’s Not Going To Happen (VIDEO)

Stop Trying To Make Pence Happen, It’s Not Going To Happen

What Fresh Hell?

The Secret Service’s Inexcusable Document Destruction

Tucker Carlson’s Dogged Pursuit

Trump’s Jan. 6th National Guard Lie Crumbles

Vulgar, Vindictive, Vile and the People Who Love Him

The Real Math on Moderation

Andrew Weissmann: Trump Acted with Premeditation

Are We a Yes on 'Nope'?

Democrats: The Good and the Bad

On ECA: Don't Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good

Putin Is Dreading Winter

Saying Goodbye to My Father from Half a World Away

The Real Math on Moderation

What Viktor Orbán Revealed This Weekend

Is the American Myth Unraveling?

Will Saletan: What Happens to Jan. 6th Investigations Now?

Democrats Will Be Punished for Republicans’ Mistakes

David Warner, 1941–2022

What’s the Downside for Humoring Him . . . Until He Dies?

Sicknick Trutherism Redux

Is the American Myth Unraveling?

They Keep Telling Us Who They Are

The Constitution Is a Mass Delusion

Hope Dies Last (with Susan Glasser)

Where Was Kevin McCarthy?

Tim Miller: These Guys Are Worse than Whores

Unleash the Bots!

What Does DeSantis Think About Trump's "Schedule F"?

What Trump Did

Sublime Southern Storytelling

Did the January 6 Committee Make a Difference? (with Tom Nichols)

"A Stain On Our History"

Wisconsin Swing Voters Are Done With Trump and Biden—and Not Sold on DeSantis

'Nope' Review

Where Was Kevin McCarthy?

Putin’s Crackdown on Anti-War Protesters

Adam Kinzinger: We're Going to Prove What Trump Knew during Those 187 Minutes

'John Wick,' Gun-Fu, and the Art of Oral History

Jan. 6th Committee Corroborates Trump’s SUV Outburst

Will Merrick Garland Solve the Republicans’ Problem for Them?

The Stupidity of Kissing Up to MBS

Ready For Prime Time

Putin’s Crackdown on Anti-War Protesters

What Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney Have in Common

Maryland GOP Throws It All Away

Bill Kristol: Trumpism Is on the Ballot

The Democrats Made Them Do It?

Appeasing Evil Men (VIDEO)

Is The Media Too Mean to Joe Biden?

Appeasing Evil Men

What a Dangerous Volcano Can Teach Us About National Solidarity

Wisconsin GOP: For Governor, Which Delusional Person Do You Prefer?

Maryland GOP Throws It All Away

Trump’s Inexcusable Jan. 6th “Dereliction of Duty”

Searching For Green Shoots

Do Not Congratulate Doug Ducey

Michael Steele: Fighting the GOP Crazification

Is 'Where the Crawdads Sing' Any Good?

What Would Christopher Hitchens Have Done About Trump?

Signs of GOP Trump Fatigue?

Do Not Congratulate Doug Ducey

Who Will Both Defend and Reform Our Democracy?

Did Trump Already Violate Campaign Finance Law for 2024?

Who Is the Secret Service Really Protecting?

Will Saletan: Are Democrats Going to Fight?

Rise of the Republican Confederacy

Who Is the Secret Service Really Protecting?

Jordan Peterson’s Pro-Putin Punditry

Why the Libertarian Party Bowed to MAGA Just Like the Republican Party

The Kids Are Alright-ish (with Peter Hamby)

If Ron DeSantis is Actually Less Dangerous Than Trump...

David Jolly: DeSantis Has the Hottest Hand in Politics Right Now

A Referendum or a Choice

A Movie You Couldn’t Make Today

There Can Be No Negotiated Settlement

High Stakes in Ukraine (with Bill Kristol and Daniel Fried)

A Patchwork Nation on Abortion (with Frances Kissling)

The Unhinged Meeting from Hell

Why Are Our Movie Stars Getting Older?

Of Course He’s Running

NIMBYism Is a Distorted Love

If Ron DeSantis is Actually Less Dangerous Than Trump, Maybe He Should Say So

Ranking Presidents Is a Game, Not a Science

‘The Gray Man’ Review

Lina Khan’s Tight Timetable for Tackling Big Tech.

Bart Gellman: What the Hell Happened to Michael Flynn?

Ron Shelton on the Struggle to Get 'Bull Durham' Made

Brittney Griner: Caught Between a Real War and a Culture War

Crazy Can Break a Wave

The One Thing That Could Save Joe Biden

Warnings for Today from the French Revolution

What Would You Give Up to Bring Brittney Griner Home?

Lina Khan’s Tight Timetable for Tackling Big Tech

The Real Goal of the Jan. 6th Committee

Bill Kristol: This Is Why We Were Never-Trump

Elon vs. Trump: Let Them Fight

The Real Goal of the Jan. 6th Committee

Timeline of a (Premeditated) Coup

Proof: Trump Planned It

The Right’s Antisemitism Problem—and the Left’s

The Complicated Place of Men in the Abortion Debates

The Shooting of Jayland Walker Doesn't Feed Any Narrative

Glenn Youngkin is a Coward

Mark Leibovich: The Parasitic Suck-Ups of the Trump Era

Should Coders Give Auteurs Notes?

Proof: Trump Planned the Mob’s March to the Capitol

Will the Post-Dobbs Abortion Bans Do Anything to IVF?

How To Charge Donald Trump

The ‘Root Causes’ of Mass Shootings, According to Republicans

Here’s Why Biden Is Flailing

Glenn Youngkin Is a Coward

Don’t Play Bannon’s Game

Team Normal Is Doing It Again

Will Saletan: Biden Is Right - The Activists Are Out of Step

Musk, Trump, and the Rule of Law

But He Doesn't Fight

Cassidy Hutchinson and How to Not to Lose Your Soul in Politics

Emmanuel Macron, the French Realignment, and Us

Team Normal Is Doing It Again

Did It Really Happen?

Political Hunger Games (with David Axelrod)

Ranking the Nightmares

The Ground Truths in Ukraine.

Addicted to Rage Juice (with Tim Miller)

James Caan, 1940-2022

The World Is a Dangerous Place

Can Democrats do Politics? (with Ruy Teixeira)

The Wider World

The Rowdiest Movie You've Ever Seen?

Unlike the GOP, the Brits Still Have Guardrails

How Wobbly Are the Finances of the World’s Major Governments?

‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Review

The Ground Truths in Ukraine

Mass Shootings Are Terrorism

Boris Johnson Is More Bill Clinton, Less Donald Trump (with David Frum)

Summer Movies Are Back—But Is Trouble on the Horizon?

The Difference Between Boris and Donald

Cautionary Pundit Tales

The Happiness of Minor Inconveniences

Forget Abortion—Democrats Should Be Messaging About Birth Control

Mass Shootings Are Terrorism

Here’s What the Latest Polls Tell Us About Abortion and the 2022 Midterms

Can Democrats Find Their Fear and Rage?

A.B. Stoddard: This Is a Different Election Now

Why Can't You Support the Other Party?

The Libs Who Hate Liz

Permanent Offense

Can Democrats Find Their Fear and Rage?

What the ‘National Conservatives’ Get Wrong About Liberalism

Iran Might Already Have a Nuke

Prosecute Trump? Yay or Nay?

Doug Mastriano’s Election-Takeover Plan

Adam White: A Generational Turning Point at the High Court

Gentleminions: Boon or Curse?

Hugh Hewitt vs. Bob Woodward and the Washington Post

A Crisis of Patriotism

Supreme Court Opens the Door to Future Cases About Religion in School

Doug Mastriano’s Election-Takeover Plan

A Pro-Choicer and a Pro-Lifer Do Lunch

A Note from The Bulwark Team

A (Somewhat) Hopeful Thought for the Fourth

Rediscovering ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’—in Its Entirety

Will Trump's Political Unicorns Stick With The GOP? (with Amy Walter)

Is Inflation on the Way Out?

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Defeating Trumpism

Tom Nichols: You Don't Know What You're Talking About

Diversity at the Multiplex Matters

Boosting Bad Candidates Is Bad for America

The End of Roe and Trump's Pathology (with Peter Wehner & Ted Johnson)

Together Again

The Big Lie Is Just the Pretext

Officials in Several States Say They Won’t Enforce Abortion Restrictions

‘Elvis’ Review

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Defeating Trumpism

PODCAST: Roe and Seditious Conspiracy [6/30/22]

Trump’s Flailing, Angry Desperation on Jan. 6th

Tim O'Brien: Trump Has Always Been a Drama Queen

Is It Safe?

The Longer Trump Waits to Run, the Less Likely It Is He'll Do It

What Liz Said

Roe and Seditious Conspiracy [6/30/22]

Wearing Russian Sanctions like a Badge of Honor (with David Kramer)

The Late, Great Chinese Buffet

Cassidy Hutchinson Is a Heroine

Trump’s Flailing, Angry Desperation on Jan. 6th

Texas Republicans Get Deadly Serious About Secession

Swing Voters Say the Darndest Things

Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony

David Priess: A Damning Witness

They Knew

Cassidy Was Trump's Worst Nightmare

Swing Voters Say the Darndest Things

America, Land of Unbelieving Believers

Cassidy Hutchinson Held Their Manhoods Cheap

The Only Conservative on the Supreme Court

Tim Miller: Mea culpa. Really.

Hutchinson Puts Trump’s Violence on Display

The Uvalde Police Don't Like Reporters

'Spiderhead' Review

Cassidy Hutchinson Held Their Manhoods Cheap

Playing Scrabble in the Thunderdome

It’s Not Easy Being Marjorie Taylor Greene

Could Trump Face Justice Over the Fraudulent Electors?

From Mayor to President in 2024?

Roe’s End and the Phony Doctrine of ‘Potential Life.’

The Post-Roe World Is Now

Rules and Power and Roe

A Culture of Life? Don't Count on It

The Contradictions of Jefferson’s Vision for an American University

<i>Roe</i>’s End and the Phony Doctrine of ‘Potential Life’

We’re Heading for a National Showdown on Guns

What Comes Next?

Trump Voters Don’t Want Trump (with Amanda Carpenter)

So You’ve Ended Roe. How Are You Going to Support Women and Babies?

Ben Wittes: Roe/Coups/Guns

Jan. 6th and ‘Why We Did It’

So You’ve Ended <i>Roe</i>. How Are You Going to Support Women and Babies?

Minor League 'Heat' and More

Pardon Me?

“Wintry realism.” (with David Frum)

What Was Your Favorite Movie of 1995?

Donald Trump's Insane Criminal Conspiracy

Jan. 6th Hearings: A Lesson in Political Courage

In Striking Down Century-Old Law, Supreme Court Gives Another Boost to Gun Culture

The Republicans Who Wanted Pardons for Their Trump Coup Actions

‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ Review

The Big Factors in the Ukraine War Now: Endurance and Time

Podcast: 100+ Days of War in Ukraine [6/23/22]

America Needs More Legislators Like Rusty Bowers.

Bill Kristol: Why We Were Alarmed

Don’t Give Trump Back His Twitter Weapon

How Can a Modern Studio Head Succeed?

Ron Johnson's Electoral Fraud

100+ Days of War in Ukraine [6/23/22]

The Internet of (Demonic) Things

America Needs More Legislators Like Rusty Bowers

About That ‘National Conservatism’ Statement

Greg Lukianoff: Democracy Can Handle Free Speech

Bipartisan Comity?

Kari Lake and the Fake Drag Panic of 2022

Trump Did This

John Eastman’s Phony “Plenary Authority” Theory

When a ‘Diverse’ Book Ban Goes Awry

About That ‘National Conservatism’ Statement

New Poll Shows the Bizarre Dynamics in the Big Pennsylvania Races

The GOP embraces the devil on its shoulder

Ripple Effects of the Fed’s Anti-Inflation Actions

Denver Riggleman: How the 1/6 Committee could succeed

Why Did 'Lightyear' Bomb?

Trump Proves the Jan. 6th Committee’s Point

The Madness (and Danger) of the Texas GOP

Biden’s Trip to Jeddah Is an Admission That His Saudi Policy Has Failed

Ripple Effects of the Fed’s Anti-Inflation Actions

In Defense of Pregnancy

A Nation of Promise

The Real Story of the Politics of Juneteenth

Will Saletan: A More Clever Autocrat Would Keep his Mouth Shut

Juneteenth: What Do Our Holidays Mean?

Has the Tide Really Turned in Ukraine?

It's Time for Some Dad Theory

Tim Miller: Mike Pence Must Testify

‘Barry’ and the Importance of Consequences

Is Dominion Voting Systems Going to Own Newsmax?

Republicans are Dangerous; Democrats are Ineffectual (with Charlie Sykes)

BONUS: Is 'Crimes of the Future' a Movie About Movies?

"A Revolution Within a Constitutional Crisis"

Dark Fate

‘Lightyear’ Review

It’s Time for Some Dad Theory

Podcast: Truth, Lies and Consequences? [6/15/22]

Mike Pence Needs To Finish The Job And Testify Before The 1/6 Committee

Jennifer Senior: Bannon Is Loathsome — and Consequential

How to Design an Iconic Movie Mask

Mike Pence Needs to Finish the Job and Testify Before the Jan. 6th Committee

Money World Goes Boom

Why Steve Bannon Is So Dangerous

Replay: Thursday Night Bulwark for June 16

Watch the Damn January 6th Hearings

Democracy on the Knife’s Edge

How to Counter Russia's Artillery Advantage in Ukraine

Elon Musk's Hyperloop Fantasy Ignores the Laws of Science—And Politics

The Real Story of the Politics of Juneteenth

Fear and Loathing in Dane County

Will Saletan: Big Liars Are Winning All over the Place

Conservatives Reveal What They Mean When They Say "Parents' Rights"

Big Night For The Big Lie

Truth, Lies and Consequences? [6/15/22]

Stepien Brothers

How Big Is the Red Wave Going To Be?

Fear and Loathing in Dane County

Biden Is Trying to Deter Putin from Using Nukes. His Staff Isn't Helping.

If Biden Doesn't Run, Are Democrats Stuck with Kamala Harris?

Trump is Responsible for His Lies

If Trump Wasn’t Lying, That’s Worse

Katy Tur: We're Not a Final Draft 'til We're Six Feet Under

'Jurassic World Dominion' Review

The "Garbage" Came from the President, Not His Advisors

Garbage All The Way Down

Philip Baker Hall, 1931-2022

If Trump Wasn’t Lying, That’s Worse

Of Course Trump Is Responsible for His Lies

The Forest and the Trees

Jamie Kirchick: When Homosexuality Was a National Security Threat

Herschel Walker Lied About Being a Cop and It Won't Matter

No, Bill Stepien, You Weren’t On “Team Normal.” You Were On “Team Coup.”

The Forest and the Trees

Do Ohio Republicans Really Want to Use Genital Exams to Ban Trans Athletes?

Patriot Front and the Next Stage of the Culture War

Department of Whataboutery

Selective Skepticism and the Nihilism of Bullshit Politics

Grumpy Old Men, Part II (2024, with Josh Kraushaar)

The Jan. 6th Committee Starts With “Just the Facts, Ma’am”

Hiatus

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Opening Arguments

Disney Drama

The Essence of Trumpism Is the Avoidance of Consequences

Hot, Streamy Summer

Is Biden Too Old for a Second Term? (with Matt Bennett)

The Case Against Donald J. Trump

Have Your Steak and Eat It Too

‘Crimes of the Future’ Review

Ron Johnson, Gun Reform Advocate?

The Jan. 6th Committee Starts With “Just the Facts, Ma’am”

How Community Disparities Affect Inequality.

Stop Stealing Movies!

Karen Tumulty: The Country Owes Mike Pence

Republicans Should Pay for Their Gun Control Cowardice

Loose Talk Makes Things Even More Dangerous

Why Progressive Democrats Keep Getting Crushed

Can We Please Use the Word “Women”?

American Guns, American Rage

Race and Place: How Community Disparities Affect Inequality

How to Think About the January 6th Hearings.

David French: America Is Exceptionally Violent

California Is Ripe for an Intra-Democrat Insurgency

It's the Crime, Stupid

The Hearings Matter Because the Threat Is Ongoing

Trumpism on the Bench?

How to Think About the January 6th Hearings

Liz Cheney’s Star Turn

Russia’s Blockade of Ukraine’s Ports Is Causing a Humanitarian Disaster

Son the Weather Underground

Jonathan Allen: Trump 2024 May Start Earlier than You Imagined

'We Own This City': The Angriest Show on Streaming

"Free Speech" and Consequences

The GOP’s Other Big Lie

Russia’s Blockade of Ukraine’s Ports Is Causing a Humanitarian Disaster

What Kellyanne Conway Loves

The GOP’s ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Will Saletan: Biden’s Return to Realpolitik

Zelensky Goes to the Front

Trump Will Be On Trial This Week

After Uvalde, How Do Teachers Keep on Teaching?

The Right Way to Think About ‘Red Flag’ Laws

The GOP’s ‘Glenn Youngkin Model’ Stalls Out on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Long History of Glenn Greenwald’s Kissing Up to the Kremlin

Has the Tide Turned in Ukraine?

I Don’t Normally Cry in Focus Groups” (Roe, with Rachel Vindman)

The Gun Fetish Is Not Normal

My Friend, Donald Trump.

Tim Miller: Everything Is 20% More Annoying

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and IMAX Scarcity

College Debt Sux

Police Reform Is Even Harder Than It Sounds

Is Gun Control Futile? (with David French)

“Life Has Never Been Normal”

What Makes a Great Summer Movie?

My Friend, Donald Trump

‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’ Review

Ask Us Anything [Podcast | 6/2/22]

What Makes a Republican a “RINO”?

Russell Moore: The Southern Baptist Apocalypse

How Long Will the New Republican Regime Last?

Biden’s Bad Luck and Bad Choices

‘Never Again’ Happens Again (And Again)

What Makes a Republican a “RINO”?

Kingsley Amis at 100

Retire These Gun Myths

The New MAGA Establishment

The Humiliation of John Durham

James Hohmann: Time for an Emmett Till Moment?

Little League, Starbucks, and What We Owe to Each Other

Is 'Top Gun: Maverick' The Summer's Best Movie?

What the AR-15 Does to a Child's Body

Ask Us Anything [6/2/22]

Don't Stop Being Angry

Culture, Politics, and Guns

The Humiliation of John Durham

The ‘Death Cult’ Keeping Russia in Ukraine

The Worst Takes on Gun Violence

Kevin McCarthy’s Jan. 6th Coverup is Underway.

Ryan Busse: The NRA Created Our Paranoid, Conspiracy Culture

The Ukrainian Missile "Crisis"

A Crisis of Guns = A Crisis of Democratic Governance

Doug Mastriano, Christian Nationalism, and the Cult of the AR-15

It’s Time for Biden to Back Iranian Protesters

Kevin McCarthy’s Jan. 6th Coverup is Underway

Memorial Day—for All Americans

Can We Stop Mass Shootings?

Memorial Day—for All Americans

Happy Pundit Accountability Day! (with Will Saletan)

We Got Here By Sacralizing Guns

In Uvalde, the Most Enraging Press Conference in American History

Tim Miller: Rage at the Carnage

In Praise of David Ellison

BONUS: Is Tom Cruise the Last Movie Star?

About Guns: Realism vs. Optimism

Drowning in Guns under Minority Rule (with A.B. Stoddard)

In Uvalde, the Most Enraging Press Conference in American History

The Long Disgrace of the NRA

After Uvalde

The Unthinkable

Molière, for Love and Laughter

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Review

Gaffe Diplomacy and the Future of ‘Strategic Ambiguity’

TNB Podcast: This is America on Guns [5/26/22]

The Way to Reform Gun Laws Is Incrementally

Peter Wehner: Christianity’s Generational Catastrophe

Let's Talk About Kid Baseball

This is America on Guns [5/26/22]

Ray Liotta, 1954–2022

Is Trump Losing His Grip? Maybe.

The Tangle of Trumpian Conspiracy Theories

Should Oligarchs’ Assets Be Seized for Ukraine Reparations?

The Way to Reform Gun Laws Is Incrementally

Stop Begging. Start Fighting.

Lucy Caldwell: A Second Amendment Fetish

Uvalde Will Happen Again

A Bad Night for Trump’s Big Lie

This Guy

Stop Begging. Start Fighting.

‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review

Heroes of Mariupol or Neo-Nazi Menace?

Rent-a-Robot and Our Tight Labor Market

7 Things to Watch for on Primary Night

Pathetic Perdue

Rick Hasen: Pushing Back against 'Cheap Speech'

Did Frank Langella Deserve to Be Fired?

Will Biden Run in 2024?

The GOP Goes Soft on Terror

7 Things to Watch for on Primary Night

Putin Is Failing in Ukraine, But Winning in Georgia

Even the Gun Industry Knew We Would End Up Here

The Alfa Bank Hoax Hoax

Perdue Slumming With Bannon for Votes on Election Eve

Will Saletan: The GOP Has a Racism Problem

Welcome to MAGA Nation

Putin's War and European Politics (with Nick Cohen)

The Good, Bad, and the Really Ugly

Why Hasn’t DOJ Appointed a Special Prosecutor for Jan. 6th?

The Danger of the ‘Great Replacement’ Theory

The Alfa Bank Hoax Hoax

Trump Surrenders to Kemp

Biden Hits the Right Note

The Devil Goes Down to Georgia (and Alabama, with Tim Miller)

Elon Musk Thinks the Law Doesn't Apply to Him

In Defense of Unwritten Rules.

Tim Miller: The GOP Has Gone Soft on Terrorism

How Many Subs Do You Pay For?

In Praise of Republicans Making Good Choices

BONUS: The Revenge of the Ads

Larry Hogan Fight Club

The Challenge of Diversity (with Yascha Mounk)

The Revenge of Dark MAGA?

Has the Left Been Pushing Its Own Version of ‘Great Replacement’ Theory?

‘Men’ Review

In Defense of Unwritten Rules

Swing Voters Say: ‘Abortion vs. Inflation’ Is a False Choice

TNB Podcast: Primary Season is Upon Us [5/19/22]

Will the National GOP Go the Way of the California GOP?

Kim Wehle: A Deep Dive on Roe

Josh Shapiro Is Not Responsible for Doug Mastriano's Win

The Radicalization of Angry Young White Men

Our Billionaire Trolls

Primary Season is Upon Us [5/19/22]

Will the National GOP Go the Way of the California GOP?

The Politics of Commencement Addresses

Putting One Million COVID Deaths in Context

The Time to Prevent the Next Coup Attempt Is Now

Philip Bump: When Support for Jan 6 Is a Political Plus

Oz, McCormick, Fetterman, and Mastriano

Fettermania Is Now

The New MAGA Establishment Prevails

Pope Francis Is Dangerously Wrong About Ukraine

The Time to Prevent the Next Coup Attempt Is Now

Don’t Read Too Much Into Madison Cawthorn’s Defeat

Are Republicans Now Going to Endorse Doug Mastriano?

“Free Speech” Ought to Mean More than Mocking Trans People

Deport D'Souza?

Should Netflix Have Stood Up to Its Employees?

Tim Alberta: The Poisoning of the Evangelical Church

The Russians Keep Pulling Back

McDonald’s and the Future of Russia

“Free Speech” Ought to Mean More than Mocking Trans People

What Do Black Americans Think About <i>Roe v. Wade</i>—and Why

Dinesh D’Souza’s <i>2000 Mules</i> Is a Hilarious Mockumentary

Elon Musk Is Not the Enemy

Will Saletan: White Nationalism Is the No. 1 Terrorism Threat

The Ukrainians Are Still Winning

Toxic Ideas Can Have Fatal Consequences

Stefanik: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Pedos (Children)?

New Laws Target Election Workers

Elon Musk Is Not the Enemy

Fred Ward, 1942-2022

The Replacement Theory -- And Terrorist Practice

Ask The Hard Questions

The Pennsylvania Primary: The Dude, the Doctor, and a MAGA Queen (with Holly Otterbein)

Toward a Long-Term Russia Policy

Keystone Dreamin'

Tom Nichols: This Isn't Therapy, It's Politics

Netflix Takes an Important Stand

The Dao of Midge

Voting Rights and Abortion Rights (with Ben Ginsberg)

BONUS: Sam Raimi, Mainstream Cultist

The Jan. 6th Committee Escalates

Toward a Long-Term Russia Policy

Do We Really Need to Rethink Academic Freedom?

Finland and Sweden Deserve to Be in NATO Now

Podcast: The Politics of Post-Roe [5/12/22]

There’s Still More to Be Done to Help Afghans

Nick Confessore: Why Tucker Has the Most Racist Show on Cable

Whose Fault Is the Recession?

Republicans Suddenly Want Less Corporate Speech

Chuck Schumer’s Political Malpractice

Traipsing Through the Vaster Wasteland

There’s Still More to Be Done to Help Afghans

Here Are the Main Tools for Fighting Inflation

Dana Milbank: Color Me Skeptical About McConnell's Promises

The Politics of Post-Roe [5/12/22]

Christian Nationalism Has Eaten Evangelical Churches

The Big Lie Gets Its Movie

Scenes from the COVID Ward

Will the Utah Senate Race Break the Partisan Doom Loop?

Here Are the Main Tools for Fighting Inflation

The Two-Word Question That Could Decisively Shape Abortion Politics

The End of Abortion Absolutism?

Chuck Schumer Is on the Cusp of Butt-Fumbling the Biden Agenda

Russians Rewrite History—Again.

Will Hurd: Moderates Get Sh*t Done

Should 'Doctor Strange 2' Have Been Rated R?

The Fed Will Matter More for 2022 and 2024 than the Fate of Roe

“Do You Think Trump Was a Danger to Democracy?”

Sick Russian Propagandists Try to Redefine “Nazi” and “Anti-Semitism”

Chuck Schumer Is on the Cusp of Butt-Fumbling the Biden Agenda

Two Cheers for Better Pay for Congressional Staffers

Herschel Walker’s Winning Campaign in One Easy Trick

Will Saletan: No One Is Ready for the Post-Roe Era

The Republican Party Is What Republican Voters Want It To Be

Battle of the Roe Narratives

Unfiltered and Uncut: Special Episode

Is Biden a Deficit Hawk?

What Democrats Could Learn from One Michigan Race

Herschel Walker’s Winning Campaign in One Easy Trick

Cathy Young: Dispatches From the Roe Wars

Is Biden’s Disinfo Czar Qualified?

Bill Kristol: Esper, Pompeo, and Roe

The Multiverse, Charted

Abortion and Climate. Can We Get More Contentious? (with Robert Pindyck)

BONUS: Movies About Movies

Sick Day

The GOP’s Exceptional Abortion Problem

‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review

Is Biden’s Disinfo Czar Qualified?

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

What Comes After the End of the Roe Era?

Adam Kinzinger: Make Clear to Putin There Is a Red Line

1,000,000 Deaths

‘Never’ Abortion vs. ‘Whenever’ Abortion

J.D. Vance Knew What Republican Voters Wanted

What Comes After the End of the <i>Roe</i> Era?

Climate Catastrophists Need to Chill

The Politics of Overturning <i>Roe</i> Are Bad for Republicans

Ohio GOP Goes Vance: It’s Still Trump’s Party

A.B. Stoddard: Trump's Base Only Wants "Killers"

Pro-Life Is As Pro-Life Does

Trump Gets His Hillbilly Senator

The War's Decisive Moment

Ohio GOP Goes Vance: It’s Still Trump’s Party

Biden Has Two Thirds of a Russia Policy

The Personal Side of the Abortion Issue

Ben Wittes: Parsing Roe; Trolling Russia

Wes Anderson: Fascist?

Choose What State You Live in Carefully

The End of Roe?

The Buckeye Bonanza

The Two Parties: Rotten Oaks?

Biden Has Two Thirds of a Russia Policy

In Praise of Nooks and Crannies

A MAGA Murderer's Row in Ohio

Will Saletan: Is the Crazy Dangerous Sedition Hurting the GOP After All?

Four Good Things About J.D. Vance's Ohio Surge

Tucker and the Dangers of Crying Wolf

Ohio: A MAGA Murderers’ Row (with Dave Weigel)

How AI Is Being Transformed by ‘Foundation Models’

DHS Disinformation Board: An Unserious Solution to a Serious Problem

‘College for All’ Is Broken. Let’s Embrace Opportunity Pluralism Instead.

BONUS: What Makes an Epic, Well, Epic?

Alex Jones Is an Even Bigger Piece of Shirt Than You Thought

J.D. Vance Cavorted With Romney Resistance During Second Year of Trump Presidency

Anne Applebaum: Putin Has Created an Alternate Reality for Russians

Why I’m Looking Forward to ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

The Disappointed Ally

A Macron Moment in the US? (with guest host Josh Barro)

J.D. Vance Cavorted With Romney Resistance During Second Year of Trump Presidency

‘Memory’ Review

The Redpill Grifter Who Became an Anti-Ukraine Propagandist

TNB Podcast: Primaries and Receipts [4/28/22]

Vance vs. Mandel Gets Ugly

Lucy Caldwell: Knives Out For McCarthy

This Will Not Pass. And Yet D.C. Republicans Keep Pretending It Will.

To Paradise Book Two & Three

Power-Hungry Cowards

Begun, the MAGA Wars Have

Primaries and Receipts [4/28/22]

Security in the Indo-Pacific (with Charlie Edel)

Vance vs. Mandel Gets Ugly

Did Kevin McCarthy Really Have a Moment of Conscience?

Trump’s Garbage Men

Le Pen Could’ve Won Here

David Frum: It's Not DeSantis v Disney — It's DeSantis v Trump

The Twitter Bloodbath Is Coming

Does America Have an Oligarch Problem?

From Ukraine to the Disney Coasts

The Bizarre Russian Prophet Rumored to Have Putin’s Ear

Le Pen Could’ve Won Here

The Most Damning Part of the Meadows Texts

The Insurrectionists Are Coming

Will Saletan: Are We Living in an Age of American Oligarchs?

Is Netflix Doomed?

The Twitter Apocalypse Is Awesome

"A Willingness To Do Harm"

‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Review

In Utah, Democrats Get Serious About Democracy

Jared Kushner’s Scandalous Saudi $2 Billion

The Insurrectionists Are Coming

In San Francisco, Revenge of the Obama Democrats

Chef José Andrés: Feeding the Soul of Ukraine

Biden's Handling of Ukraine Is the Most Successful American Intervention Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Musk Twitter Could Be a Disaster For MAGA Grifters and Republican Ostriches

A Good Day for Democracy

Andrew Yang: Will Trump and Biden Birth a Third Party?

In San Francisco, Revenge of the Obama Democrats

Trump Gets His Fix in Michigan

Millions of French Voters Held Their Noses and Voted for Macron to Defeat Le Pen

Bonfires of Vengeance

Vive la France!

Sham Elections and Shameless Lies

Kevin McCarthy Is Everywhere, All at Once

Tim Miller: Cowardly Kevin

Netflix: The Least-Essential Streaming Service

This Isn’t the Right Way to Get Marjorie Taylor Greene Out of Congress

The Culture War > Kitchen-Table Policies

Jared vs. Hunter

The Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy

We Are LIVE!

'The Northman' Review

Sham Elections and Shameless Lies

A Defense of Art for Art’s Sake

Pennsylvania Swing Voters Aren't Rushing Back to Republicans

Larry Hogan’s Successor May Be an Insurrectionist

Juliette Kayyem: Living in an Age of Disasters

The New Right Has Told Us Who They Are. Why Don't Americans Believe Them?

Assange and Trump, Partners

Is There Any Way for the Dems to Win the Kids Back?

Maybe the Democrats Should Try Popularism

Larry Hogan’s Successor May Be an Insurrectionist

The Decay at the Claremont Institute Continues

Tucker Carlson and the Crisis of Masculinity

Yascha Mounk: The Most Dangerous Idea in American Politics

Taking It To The Next Level

Would You Wear a Mask on a Plane If Someone Asked You To?

Florida’s “Authoritarian Socialist” Governor

Tucker Carlson and the Crisis of Masculinity

How Putin Conned the American Right

Steve King Finds the Low Road Is a Lonely Road.

Masculinity Panic

Yuval Levin: Trump's Strategic Error

Gone Fishin'

John Fetterman Is Just a Dude

Fahrenheit 2022: A Spasm of Book Banning

Steve King Finds the Low Road Is a Lonely Road

Musk Twitter: Same Toilet, Different Plunger

The Messy Politics of Teaching Gender

Will Saletan: Tucker’s Twisted Notions of Manliness

No Peace Without Victory

Why Tucker Worries About Testosterone

The Asterisk Follows Us (with Dr. Ted Johnson)

The Changing Inflation Outlook

The Messy Politics of Teaching Gender

Mike Lee’s Role in Trump’s Attempted Coup

It Looks Like Genocide

Easter in a Time of Crazy

Is Ukraine the End of the End of History?

Mike Lee and the “Good Republicans”....

Robert Tracinski: The Birchers Are Back - And Winning

Josh Mandel Gets Schlonged

BONUS: 'Ambulance' and the Decline of Bayhem

Elon Musk Has a Kink

Chip and Mike's Excellent Adventure

The Inflation Monster (with Noah Smith)

Our Geriatric Politics

Mike Lee and the “Good Republicans” Were No Different Than the Crazy Kraken Lady

Bloody Borders or a Bloody Cross?

The Lessons of Ukraine for Taiwan—and the U.S.

The Pregnant Beauty Blogger and the Kremlin Propagandists

‘Ambulance’ Review

TNB Podcast: Mailbag: We Answer Your Questions [4/14/22]

More Immigration, Less Inflation

Amanda Carpenter: The Senate Is the World's Greatest Retirement Home

Mailbag: We Answer Your Questions [4/14/22]

Le Pen and Trump Could Succeed Where the Russian Army Failed

Stop Passing the Buck. Charge Trump.

Elon Musk, Twitter, and the Politics of Disruption

Will 2022 Be the Year of the Black Republican?

More Immigration, Less Inflation

Trump: Still Not Losing His Grip on the GOP

Did the John Birch Society Win in the End?

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Fascism 2.0

Tales from the Senate House of Horrors

Welcome to Fantasy Politics

Words and Weapons for Ukraine

Did the John Birch Society Win in the End?

Michigan Gets Crazy

What Really Happened in Ukraine in 2014—and Since Then

How to Disarm the Crazies

Biden Must Invoke the Defense Production Act

The Fragility of Civilization

Jonathan Chait: More MAGA than MAGA

'Everything Everywhere All at Once': Good ... or Great?

Mayor Pete Should Replace Jen Psaki

Virginia’s Free Speech Wars

War, Myth-making, and Democracy (with Elizabeth Samet)

Putin Wants to Break NATO. Republicans Want to Help Him.

Biden Must Invoke the Defense Production Act

Pennsylvania Republicans Are Going to Nominate an Election Conspiracist for Governor

What’s Democracy to You?

Will Saletan: Who Will Get Lindseyed Next?

David McCormick and a Senate Map for Dummies

Join To Paradise Book Club: Part One "Washington Square"

The GOP’s Huckster-Hoaxer Axis

Running in Mud (with Robert Gibbs)

What’s Democracy to You?

Martin Scorsese’s Movies Are Funnier Than Most Modern Comedies

Orbán and the Appeal of Illiberalism

I Commanded U.S. Army Europe. Here's What I Saw in the Russian and Ukrainian Armies.

To Paradise Book Club with Tim Miller

Coverups... In Plain Sight

Explaining Mitch McConnell’s Warped Moral Framework

The Oberlin Culture War of 2016 Finally Comes to an End

Tim Miller: Mitch McConnell Has No Moral Red Lines

How One Indie Film Studio Has Survived Decades of Change

Holy War

BONUS: 'Morbius' Sucks (and Not Just Blood)

Putin's American Friends

Mitch McConnell and the Banality of Amorality

The Gang of Ten and the Challenge of Bipartisan Budgeting

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Fascist Buffoon Whose Shtick Stuck, Dead at 75

A Night With Chris Pine

The Oberlin Culture War of 2016 Finally Comes to an End

Podcast: Our New Cold War [4/7/22]

Trump’s Judge-Shopping Flop.

Tom Nichols: Where Putin Might Use Nukes

Democrats Are Screwed No Matter What They Do

Are The Sanctions Stopping Putin?

Our New Cold War [4/7/22]

The Crazies Who Want to Take Over Elections

Trump’s Judge-Shopping Flop

The Easy, Ugly Impulse to Ban Books and Punish Librarians and Teachers

Biden’s Defense Budget Pretends Ukraine Wasn’t Invaded

How the Texas Election Law Suppressed Voting

Josh Kraushaar: Democrats Are Bracing for a Republican Wave

Ukraine Enters Phase 2 of the War

CPAC Goes Full Orbán

Republicans Are Deeply and Genuinely Concerned About Grooming

How the Texas Election Law Suppressed Voting

Democrats’ Tough Choice in Missouri 1

The Republican Party Is Trump Steaks

Self-Manufactured Crises

Meet the Republican Anti-Ukraine Caucus!

Lis Smith: Why Democrats Should Go on Fox News

Is Cancel Culture Canceled?

Projection Is the Sincerest Form of Trumpism

The Kremlin's Manifesto of Hate

Democrats Need to Get Better at Politics—Fast

The Worldly Ben Franklin

Who’s Soft on Russia? Meet the Republican Anti-Ukraine Caucus!

The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists

Bill Kristol: Biden Was Right — Putin Must Be Removed from Power

The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists

A Governor Breaks Up With Trump

When Bad Guys Think They’re Good Guys (with Rep. Adam Kinzinger)

David Perdue, Trump’s Sacrificial Lamb

Florida’s “Explicitly Bigoted” Don't Say Gay Law

Hungary’s Autocrat Orbán Fends Off Opposition Challenge

Confronting the Horror

A Federal Judge Found That Trump “Likely” Committed Serious Crimes—Now What?

Against April Fool's Day

Bob Iger Discovers the Concept of Right and Wrong

Tim Miller: I'd Like to Smack DeSantis ... But I Won't

Lock Him Up?

Ukraine Goes on Offense

BONUS: 'The Godfather' at 50

The Right's Cancel Culture Comes for Disney

A Federal Judge Found That Trump “Likely” Committed Serious Crimes—Now What?

Before the Ukrainians, It Was the Finns Who Kicked Russia’s Ass

‘Morbius’ Review

‘The Dragon’: Russia’s Satirical Parable of Autocracy and the Human Spirit

Podcast: Asked and Answered [3/31/22]

The Biden Admin is Failing to Reform U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

The Ancients Illuminate Modern Statecraft (with Barry Strauss)

Greg Bluestein: Was Georgia's Flip to Purple Firm — Or a Fluke?

Why Does No One Ever Say “Republicans Have to Stop Acting Crazy or Voters Will Punish Them”?

Bruce Willis, the Great Comic Action Hero

Biden Lied About Hunter’s Laptop

Trusting Madison Cawthorn

The Booming—and Not Entirely Trustworthy—Business of Prenatal Genetic Testing

Biden Administration Failing to Reform U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

‘Belle de Jour,’ an Un-Erotic Masterpiece

Will Hurd’s Dangerous Wishcasting

Adam White: The Court Needs to Maintain Its Legitimacy

Ginni and Will and Hunter

Counterintuitive Hotness: Actually Putin Is Winning?

Trump's Treason

Asked and Answered [3/31/22]

Is It Racist to Help Ukraine?

Freedom and Democracy in Russia, Then and Now

Will Hurd’s Dangerous Wishcasting

Giving the GOP the Heimlich

Was Biden's Gaffe a Gaffe?

Francis Fukuyama: The End of Complacency

'The Slap': Controversy or Nontroversy?

What Is Ginni Thomas?

Judge Carter’s Memo to Merrick Garland

Giving the GOP the Heimlich

NATO Must Free Itself from Its Promises to Russia

On Lollapalooza Brasil and American Greatness

Democratic Donors Are Getting Bamboozled

Will Saletan: Putin Is a Terrorist

Biden: Still Doing a Good Job on Ukraine

Warning to the West

It Just Didn’t Smell Right (with Benjamin Ginsberg)

Vladimir Putin, Terrorist

Why Trump Says He ‘Just Might Have to’ Run Again

Democratic Donors Are Getting Bamboozled

Is Ginni Thomas’s Story Believable?

Greitens Tests The Limits Of The Post-Decency MAGAverse

How to Fight for Democracy

Is He Melting?

Ukraine’s Memory Wars

Mona Charen: A Time to Recuse, a Time to Testify

The Future of Movies as ‘Content’

BONUS: ATMA's Oscar Picks!

Putin Sounds Like an American Conservative

Monsters and Jackasses

9 Things You Need to Know About Ginni's Texts

‘The Lost City’ Review

The Constitution at War With Itself

Ukraine’s Memory Wars

What Matters About Ginni Thomas’s Texts

Podcast: Mailbag Edition [3/24/22]

How Kremlin Dictators Keep NATO Alive

Josh Rogin: Xi and Putin Are in This Together

Ukraine Is on the Offensive in Kyiv

Too Crazy for Mo Brooks

Jared Polis: Biden Shouldn’t Talk So Much About What He Can’t Do

Mailbag Edition [3/24/22]

Why can’t we admit that Ukraine is winning?

Supreme Court Summarily Smacks Down Wisconsin Electoral Maps

How Kremlin Dictators Keep NATO Alive

Trans Politics Needs to Slow Down and Wait for Trans Science

Madeleine Albright: Champion of Democracy

Get Ukraine More Drones

David Corn: Tucker Carlson, Useful Idiot

Actual Good News from Ukraine

The Russia - Trump - Republican Triangle

Senators Behaving Badly

If Putin Were to Use Nuclear Weapons, What Would Follow?

Jared Polis: The Gaymer Democrats Need?

Get Ukraine More Drones

The Execrable Senator Hawley

A New Period of Consequences

A.B. Stoddard: The Pipeline of Crazy Is Clogged

Why Is YA Fiction So Broken?

Counting the Dead

DJT reminds us (again)...

The Best Picture Nominees: A Retrospective

Our Nasty, Stupid, Frivolous Cancel Culture Fights (That We’re Lucky Enough to Have)

No Certainties in Ukraine Outcome

A New Period of Consequences

Actually, Earmarks Are Good

Will Saletan: What Is the Red Line?

Ketanji Brown Jackson: Patriotism and Pride

Do Not Look Away from Mariupol

Hawley’s Deplorable (and Dishonest) Attack on KBJ

The Truth is Somewhere In Between (with Dr. Leana Wen)

Why Russian Propagandists Love Fox News

Expect a Viktor Orbán Win Next Month

Actually, Earmarks Are Good

Republican Voters Are Now America’s Foreign Policy Doves

Yes, Cancel Culture Is Real

War in a Time of Global Upheaval

J.D. Vance Gets Canceled

Cancel This!

A Plea to Amazon: You Have (Part of) MGM’s Library. Let People Watch It

Bill Kristol: Maybe War Crimes Are a Bridge Too Far for Pro-Putin GOP

BONUS: What Makes Pixar So Great?

Putin Is Telegraphing His Weakness

Ukraine and the West Surprise Putin . . . and Ourselves

The Pro-Putin Wing of the GOP

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review

“What Must It Be Like for Children?”

China’s Hold on American Elites

‘Deep Water’ Review

J.D. Vance Gets Canceled

Podcast: The Economics of War [3/17/22]

The Vaccine Mutiny

Zelensky, Churchill, Reagan (with Andrew Roberts)

Michael Weiss: Who Should You Believe about the War?

How Do You Negotiate with a War Criminal?

Peter Thiel’s GOP Makeover

Vladimir Putin: War Criminal

The Vaccine Mutiny

Digging Into Russia’s Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’

The Ukraine Speech Biden Should Give Now

Democrats Are Now the Party of American Leadership in the World

Two Years of Covidiocy

The Economics of War [3/17/22]

David Priess: What Zelensky Needs

Realignment Is Real

Strategic Transparency vs. Strategic Ambiguity

Zelensky's Heartbreaking Plea

Swing Voters: Biden’s Not Strong, But He’s Competent

Two Years of Covidiocy

George Conway: Claiming to Be ‘Completely Insane and Stupid’ May Be Trump’s Best Defense

Blaming America for Russian Aggression, Then and Now

A Secret Fundraiser

Why Ukraine Is Dangerous to Putin

Susan Glasser: Russia's New Iron Curtain

Should Disney Have Reacted to Florida's Controversial Bill?

This Is How Truth Defeats Lies

What Courage Looks Like

The Senate Is a Symptom

​​The Clock Is Running Out on Putin’s Invasion

Are Black Voters Really Leaving the Democratic Party?

Why Ukraine Is Dangerous to Putin

Babushkas with AK-47s (and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman)

Will Sweden Join NATO?

Is Biden Deterring Putin?

Russia's Logistical Nightmare Will Keep Getting Worse

Biden’s Dangerous Message to Putin

Russia Doesn’t Need Trolls This Time

Will Sweden Join NATO?

How Freedom and Dreams of a ‘Normal Life’ Died in Post-Cold-War Russia

The Best of the Bulwark on Ukraine

Putin Can't Get Lucky Enough to Win

When Is It Okay to Laugh During War?

The Moral Clarity of Resettling Refugees

The Ukraine FAQ

Tim Miller: Trump Is the Leader of the Putin Wing

What Is Good Taste Worth? About $2.5 Billion, Apparently.

BONUS: Can Zelensky's Acting Experience Save Ukraine?

How to Help Ukrainians

Ukrainians Dodge Missiles. Can We Dodge Involvement? Should We?

Madison Cawthorn Is Not An Outlier

‘Drive My Car,’ ‘After Yang’ Reviews

The Moral Clarity of Resettling Refugees

We Don’t Know Anything About Nuclear War

Podcast: Once More Into The Breach [3/10/22]

Nikki Haley’s Hypocrisy and Faux Outrage Over Ukraine

Amb. Eric Edelman: Why Are We Deterring Ourselves?

The Road to Nuclear Escalation

Whose Side Are You On?

The Distortions of the Putin Apologists

Thursday Night Bulwark: Eliot Cohen on Bulwark Livestream

MAGA Candidate Begs For Absolution From Dorm-Room David Duke

Will Ukraine Turn Out Like Chechnya or Finland?

What Putin Cares About Most

Nikki Haley’s Hypocrisy and Faux Outrage Over Ukraine

Thank God Trump Isn’t President Right Now

General Mark Hertling: Why the Russians Will Lose

Getting Fighter Jets to Ukraine

Once More Into The Breach [3/10/22]

Five Hard Truths About Ukraine

Inconceivable

Thank God Trump Isn’t President Right Now

What the Ukrainians Are Fighting For

Blaming the Ukraine Invasion on ... the Gays?

The DeSantisstans

Why NATO Can’t Move Into the Black Sea and Save Odessa

Kim Wehle: We Need To Learn How To Think

ATMA Vs. 'The Batman'

Putin in a Box

Congress Passes Historic Bill Making Lynching a Federal Hate Crime

Tucker and Barr, and Florida. Oh My.

How to Know When They Mean It

We Need ‘Compensanctions’ for Ukraine

Why NATO Can’t Move Into the Black Sea and Save Odessa

The Politics of Ukraine in an Ohio Town

Will Saletan: A Failed Invasion

The Double Siege

A Never *Again* Trump Coalition?

Inflation? Ludicrous! (with Jonathan V. Last)

The Politics of Ukraine in an Ohio Town

Sizing Up the Fiscal Challenge

Explaining the Ukraine Invasion

Ayn Rand in Our Day

What Is Putin Afraid Of?

‘Paths That Would Eventually Lead to American Involvement to Help Protect Ukraine’

Putin Has Already Suffered a Strategic Defeat

Let’s Not Revive Privateering to Take Russian Superyachts

Putin and the Nuclear End Game

Reality Comes Knocking

Tim Miller: Don't Buy Bill Barr's Book

AMC’s Variable Pricing Is Good, Actually

BONUS: RIP, Musicals?

The Russian People Were Putin's First Victims

The Party

A Week Where Decades Happened (with Kori Schake)

“This Is Their Time”

‘The Batman’ Review

Reality Comes Knocking

The U.S. Is Not at War, But Its Civil Society Is Mobilizing Against Russia

Podcast: History Begins Again [3/3/22]

Putin’s Bogus Blame-NATO Excuse

Rachel Vindman: The GOP Enablers Brought Us to This Moment

Joe Biden, War President (with Kori Schake)

“Obstructed, Influenced, or Impeded”

Ukraine’s Unexpected Hero

Watch: History Begins Again (simulcast)

Taiwan and China Keep Eyes on Ukraine

Putin’s Bogus Blame-NATO Excuse

A Tale of Two Speeches

Michael Steele: Biden Restores the Alliance

State of the Union, Russian Media, and Texas

Never Again?

History Begins Again [3/3/22]

A Tale of Two Speeches

Old Ukraine Is Gone. Ukrainians Carry On.

Why India Didn’t Back Ukraine at the U.N.

An Answer to Putin (and Climate Change) in Plain Sight

The Ukrainian War

What NATO Should Do Now

Clint Watts: What Is Putin's Offramp?

Should We Forgive People Who Work for Propaganda Outlets?

Can 'Coda' Win Best Picture?

The War on Freedom CPAC Forgot

RT: Go Fuck Yourself

What NATO Should Do Now

The Culture War

Shame on Those Who Defended Trump's 'Perfect Call'

Will Saletan: Courage Is Contagious

The Focus Group season 2

The West Is Winning, Russia Is Losing, and Biden Is Doing a Good Job

Some Thoughts on Accountability

Who Has the Cojones? (With Mark McKinnon)

What Changed Germany’s Mind

The Hinge of Fate

Shame On Those Who Defended Trump’s "Perfect Call"

The Case for SWIFT Sanctions Against Russia

Zelensky Has Become More Than a Man

Russia As a Pariah State

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Next

Rick Scott's 11 Theses

Heath Mayo: Reimagining American Conservatism

Jack Palance Vs. Vladimir Putin

No One Is in Control

BONUS: Steven Soderbergh's 'Kimi' and the Modern Thriller

Hinge Moment of History

The Massive Gap in Biden's Sanctions

Russian Energy Sanctions Cause Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Next

‘Studio 666’ Review

Putin’s No Madman

The New Russia Sanctions Are Designed to Hurt

The Real Reasons Putin Feels Threatened by NATO

Podcast: Putin Chooses Forever War [2/24/22]

It's War

Tom Nichols: Putin, Unhinged and in a Bubble

What You Need to Understand About the Road Ahead

Putin’s Plan

Thursday Night Bulwark: Putin Chooses a Forever War

"You Are Going To See Our Faces"

Trump’s Despicable, Disgraceful, and Un-American Response To Putin’s Evil

The Ukraine Invasion and the Putin-Xi Partnership

How Democrats Can Save Themselves

“Pain, Blood, Mud, and Death”: Putin Attacks Ukraine

Father Carlson

Bill Kristol: MAGA Turns Anti Anti-Putin

Let's Blow Up Some Russian Yachts.

Putin's Most Useful Idiot

Conservative Inc. Tries to Grapple with Ukraine

Putin Chooses Forever War [2/24/22]

Father Carlson

The ‘Freedom Convoys’ and the Old Dreams of an American Revolution in Canada

The Joy of Violence

No, the Canadian Trucker Protests Are Not Comparable to Jan. 6th

U.S. and Allied Sanctions Are the First Pushback Against Putin

Useful Idiots Redux [Corrected podcast]

If Democrats Lose Congress, It Won’t Be Because H.R. 1 Didn’t Pass

Tim O'Brien: Trump Was Giving Putin Everything He Wanted

Is the Video Game Movie Curse Broken?

Reality Is a Tank

The Mask Comes Off

Civil Lawsuits Can Proceed Against Trump for His Big Lie and Jan. 6th Actions

If Democrats Lose Congress, It Won’t Be Because H.R. 1 Didn’t Pass

Ukraine Isn't the Only Target of Putin's Aggression

The End of “America First”?

Will Saletan: Surprise, Trump Was in It for the Money

The End of “America First”?

Putin's Right-Wing Shills

Everything You Need to Know About Biden's Messaging Problems with One Easy Test

Steven Spielberg: The Director Abraham Lincoln Deserved

Are University Diversity Staffers Rabid Anti-Semites? A New Report Would Like You to Think So.

Indicting Appeasement in Munich

It's Time to Get Smart on Russia

What Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee Will Face.

David Frum: O Canada!

How the Courts Helped HBO Change the World

RIP Ivan Reitman

Who Did Red COVID Hurt?

San Francisco Sends Democrats a Message

It's the Hope That Kills You

Second Thoughts On San Francisco?

Here’s What Sets Kamila Valieva Apart from Sha’Carri Richardson

Smear and Loathing: A Close Look at Accusations of Ukrainian Anti-Semitism

What Biden’s SCOTUS Nominee Will Face

The Bones of the Blogosphere

‘Uncharted’ Review

AUDIO: Livestream for February 17

Will There Be a Trucker Protest in the U.S.?

Bulwark Livestream for February 17 (VIDEO)

Karen Tumulty: At Least One Party Kicked the Extremists Out

The Fog of Disinformation War Is Coming

The Lessons of San Francisco

Ben Shapiro, Free Speech, and the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

These Are the Issues Swing Voters Care About (And the Ones They Don’t)

The Fight Against Anti-Semitism Begins at Home

The RNC Thinks Phony Electors Engaged in ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’

Will There Be a Trucker Protest in the U.S.?

Putin’s War

Garry Kasparov: Putin Is a Merchant of Doubt

Time To Go on Offense

The Kind of Guy Who'd Race a Ferrari 308 GTS Cross-Country

Remembering P.J. O'Rourke

Putin’s War

Where Are the Anti-Putin Anti-Imperialists?

The Verdict Is In: Trump Wasn’t Right About China

Mazars Thumps Trump

Half Full or Half Empty?

Will Texas Re-Elect America’s Craziest Attorney General?

Why Writers Loved P.J. O’Rourke

John Avlon: An Unconditional Surrender and a Magnanimous Peace

Can Anything Save the Oscars?

America's Culture of Political Violence Has Risen from the Dead

Your Five Tuesday BFDs

Neo-Maosim in China (with Jude Blanchette)

Will Texas Re-Elect America’s Craziest Attorney General?

What Will Europe Do If Russia Cuts Off Its Gas?

Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for America

DeSantis, Shapiro & Co. Want To Put My Kid in the Closet

Fear, Frustration, and Fatalism

Charlie and Will Monday

Germany Is Still the Key to Europe

Lindsey Graham Knows How to Stand Up to Strongmen. Unless They're Republicans.

Larry Hogan's Impossible Dream?

Dispatch from Kyiv: Fear, Frustration, and Fatalism

How I Got Stung by Viktor Orbán

Ivan Reitman, 1946-2022

Trump Really Could Be Prosecuted for Destroying Documents

Our Upside-Down Politics

Conservatism Inc.'s Complicated Relationship with "Freedom"

The Dilemma of Brilliant Jerks

Tim Miller: The Worst and the Dumbest

Are We Done with COVID Yet?

'Moonfall' and the Fall of Roland Emmerich

Biden Is Doing Okay on Ukraine

Open Everything?

How Not to Fight the Next CRT Battle

Remember When Trump World Wanted to Prosecute Nancy Pelosi for Destruction of Official Documents?

The Dilemma of Brilliant Jerks

Here’s How Republicans Have Been Justifying the Censure of Cheney and Kinzinger

‘Death on the Nile’ Review

The Right’s Argument Against Aiding Ukraine Is Wrong—and Dangerous

Podcast: The Wide World (And Sports) [2/10/22]

The Role of Racial Resentment in Our Politics

Robert Draper: MAGA Martyr Michael Flynn

The COVID Skeptics and Their Shifting Goalposts

How Wisconsin’s GOP Is Losing Its Mind

Chinese Propaganda and the Genocide Olympics

The Role of Racial Resentment in Our Politics

America Can’t Fight Authoritarianism on the Cheap

Pre-K’s Broken Promise

Two Cheers for America’s COVID-19 Response

Jeremy Peters: The GOP’s Ongoing Insurgency

Is There Any Convert You Would Not Accept in the Cause of Democracy?

The Wide World (And Sports) [2/10/22]

A GOP Crackup?

It's Hard Out There for J.D. and Nikki

Allan Sherman’s Accidental Anthology of American Anxiety

Two Cheers for America’s COVID-19 Response

The High Cost of How We Work

Trump or Pence?

Dear White Staffers: It’s Time We Listened

Adam Kinzinger: McCarthy Looks Like a Weak, Feckless Man

Does Anyone Care About the Winter Olympics?

The Tao of 'Jackass'

The Bad Guys Always Find Each Other

The Unbearable Lightness of Nikki

Breaking Down the 2022 Oscar Nominations

Don’t Cry for Mark Meadows (Or Let Him Cry to You)

It’s Time for Federal Budgeting Rules to Match the New Reality

Dear White Staffers: It’s Time We Listened

Lies Are the Building Blocks of Trumpian Authoritarianism

Will Saletan: It's Easy to Become an Authoritarian

America Is Going To Have to Hug It Out

Memo To Dems: Stop Taking These Maskless Pictures

Why The RNC Is Obsessed With Liz Cheney

Prosecutors Are Justified in Seeking Bannon’s Lawyer’s Records

Putin Announced His Manifesto Against the West Fifteen Years Ago. His Story Hasn’t Changed.

Lies Are the Building Blocks of Trumpian Authoritarianism

The Conscience of Mike Pence

Hope Is Not a Plan. But Despair Is Not a Solution.

Make Alaska Great Again!

Censure!

Tim Miller: China, Zucker, Schumer, SCOTUS, Coups, and GOP purges

How China Funded the Literal Seats in Which You Sit

A Very Special Conversation with JVL

A Canceling We Will Go

The RNC Joins the Insurrection

‘Jackass Forever’ Review

Visiting Family Abroad Has Become a Glitchy Government Nightmare for Some Immigrants

Make Alaska Great Again!

Podcast: Will Saletan Joins Thursday Night Bulwark [2/3/22]

Lock Him Up?

Will Saletan Joins Thursday Night Bulwark [2/3/22]

Scott MacFarlane: Jan. 6 Committee Is Connecting the Dots

Jeff Zucker Screwed Democracy, Too

The Deplorable Mr. Hawley

Biden’s SCOTUS Nom Plan Irks the Irkable

Lock Him Up?

The Politics of the New Trust-Busting

What Does Putin Want?

Rudy vs. The Kraken

The Bogus Protest, the House Race, and the MAGA Grocer

It Might Be Time for the Democrats to Move On From Chuck Schumer

George Packer: Afghanistan Was Biden's Saigon

In War, Leadership Matters

The Barr-Pence Line

Secret Origin Story

The Bogus Protest, the House Race, and the MAGA Grocer

Biden's Response to Russian Aggression Can't Rest on Half-Measures

The Trump Coup Is Still Happening

COVID Derangement Is Working Out Just Fine for the GOP

Mona's Time in the Barrel

The Problem with Permitting Putin’s “Sphere of Influence”

Dana Milbank: The Right's Snowflakes

Neil Young Vs. Joe Rogan

Is Peter Dinklage Right about 'Snow White'?

The Problem with "Good Republican" Candidates Is That They Answer to Bad Republican Voters

Thomas Massie's Epic Face-Plant

The Problem with Permitting Putin’s “Sphere of Influence”

The Case Against Concessions

Both the Right and Left Have Illiberal Factions. Which Is More Dangerous?

Why Won't Susan Collins Rule Out Trump in '24?

Will Saletan: We Are Too Politically Segregated

American Idiocracy Is Real

No, the GOP Won't Save Us

Judge Rejects John Eastman’s Effort to Hide Files from the Jan. 6th Committee

What the Ukraine Crisis Looks Like from Beijing

Ghostface Trump Lives and Susan Collins Keeps Letting Him

How to Solve the Three Problems With Getting Our Afghan Allies Out

And There It Is...

BTFD, FOMO, TINA, and WAGMI. LOL.

About Those Empty Grocery Shelves

A.B. Stoddard: MAGA in Disarray

Peacock Lost $1.7B in 2021 — and Will Top that in 2022

Will Saletan Is Next

Putin Wants to Turn Back the Clock

Dumbing Down Our Schools (Again)

‘A Hero’ Review

It Might Not Be Too Late to Deter Putin

The Ghosts of Kyiv and the Shadow of War

About Those Empty Grocery Shelves

Podcast: The Supreme Court, Voting Rights, and Election Reform [1/27/22]

What Happens When a Globalist Cuck Tries to Go Full MAGA?

Supreme Court Poker

Matt Bennett: This Is a Paul Revere Moment

Conservative Inc. ❤️ Russia

A SCOTUS Reality Check

Time to Update School Pandemic Policy

Biden Is Learning How to Deal with Putin

What Happens When a Globalist Cuck Tries to Go Full MAGA?

China Bowdlerized ‘Fight Club.’ When Will Artists Say ‘Enough’?

Everybody’s Getting CRT Wrong on Purpose

JDV and MTG Sitting in a Tree

The DOJ Is Investigating the Phony Electors

The Supreme Court, Voting Rights, and Election Reform [1/27/22]

David Priess: Beware of Russian Trolls

How America Screwed Ukraine Out of Its Nuclear Weapons

Dems' Problems Run Deeper Than Just Biden

DOJ Is Investigating the Phony Electors

To the Elvis Impersonator Who Ranted About the COVID ‘Hoax’ in the Walmart Checkout Line

Swing Voters Don’t See the Same Democracy Crisis You See

But it didn't succeed

Why It Matters That Support for Israel Among Young Evangelicals Is Falling

Ruy Teixeira: What Would the Working Class Say?

Why Does Hate Sell?

What Does Netflix's Bad Month(s) Mean for Streaming?

Understanding the Logic of War

How Dangerous is Georgia v. Trump?

‘Censor’ and ‘Broadcast Signal Intrusion’ Review

Why It Matters That Support for Israel Among Young Evangelicals Is Falling

Ticket-Splitting Voters Are Disappearing—Which Makes Them Even More Valuable

Long Before Hungary, the Right Was Fixated on Another Country

Bill Kristol: The Dysfunction Is a Pre-Existing Condition

Dear Democrats: Stop Forking Everything Up

A Troll's Progress

Long Before Hungary, the Right Was Fixated on Another Country

Sykes's Law: It's Always Worse Than You Thought

How to be happy: Never confuse outcomes with analysis.

The Limitations of “Norm” Talk

Mark Bowden & Matt Teague: 2020's Unsung Heroes

RIP Louie Anderson and Meat Loaf

Get Ready for "Almost War"

Do's and Don'ts of Democracy Protection

Into the Wild

Somebody Else Had a Lousy Week

‘The Lost Daughter’ and ‘Macbeth’ Reviews

The Limitations of “Norm” Talk

What Happens After Iran Goes Nuclear?

Podcast: Grading Biden's First Year [1/20/22]

Glenn Youngkin’s Mask Fight

Tim Miller: About That Press Conference

What Grade Would You Give Biden's First Year?

Heeding the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands & Bill Kristol)

Bring Back the Talking Filibuster

Biden's Presser: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Grading Biden's First Year [1/20/22]

Glenn Youngkin’s Mask Fight

Is Inflation Biden’s Fault?

The Six Main Strands of the Trump Coup Attempt

Time For Democrats to Try Offense

Prosecute the Fake Electors

Will Saletan: The Coalition of the Sane

The Russian Way of War

Democrats: Change Course Or Get Crushed.

The Republican Parallel Universes Strategy

To Crack Open the Big 2020 Election Scheme, Start by Prosecuting the Fake Electors

The Right’s Increasing Fringe-ification

Here's How We Fix the Electoral Count Act

How Darren Beattie Fails Upward in MAGA World

Roger Stone Goes After "Fat Boy" De Santis

Matthew Yglesias: The Center Is There, We Just Can't Hear It

How Disastrous Was Joss Whedon's NY Mag Interview?

Should Alyssa Watch 'Scream'?

Don't Let COVID Bring Out the Worst in You

Why DeSantis Will Blink

The Ukraine Crisis Could Be a Turning Point for Biden

John Carpenter, Genre Genius

Even as His Big Conspiracy Theory Crumbles, Darren Beattie’s Star Continues to Rise in Trump World

The Crazy, and True, Story of How America Got the Electoral Count Act

To Honor MLK, Focus on His Actual Work

Josh Barro: Obsessing Over Democracy Won't Save It

Ron DeSantis Is Going to Get Trump Trucked

Trump Previews the GOP’s Future

To Honor MLK, Focus on His Actual Work

It’s Long Past Time to Prosecute Phony GOP Electors

The Electoral Count Act Is a Zero-Day Exploit Waiting to Happen

Trump's Electoral Forgery/Fraud

We Must Act Now to Save Jeopardy!

The Villages Still Loves Trump

David French: Biden’s Divisive Speech

Movies and the Tension Between Art and Commerce

Ross Douthat's Civil War Blame Game

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Rocket

Biden's Nadir Week?

Biden's Terrible Thursday

Podcast: Biden's Honeymoon is Over [1/13/21]

Sedition Charges Demolish a Right-Wing Talking Point

‘Scream’ Review

The Huge Florida Retirement Community That Still Can’t Get Enough of Trump

This Ain’t About Freedom

Adam Kinzinger: Jan 6 Primetime Hearings Will Be Must-See TV

Why We Can't Stop Russia

The Doom Loop Of "Relevance"

Biden's Honeymoon is Over [1/13/21]

The Four Big Questions for the Midterms

Here’s Why Capitol Insurrectionists Are Being Charged Under a Post-Enron Law

This Ain’t About Freedom

Aaron Rodgers Is the Perfect 2022 Oscars Host

Florida Is Now a MAGA Megachurch.

Biden Goes Down to Georgia

Tim Alberta: The Fringe Has Merged with the Mainstream

The Anti-Vaxxers Are in Control

Joe Biden Needs Four Sister Souljah Moments

Jim Jordan Doesn’t Want to Grapple with the Truth

Florida Is Now a MAGA Megachurch

Aim at Foot. Shoot!

How Democrats Can Win the Information War

Barbara Walter: Is America at Risk of a 21st Century Civil War?

The Golden Globes Happened. Did Anyone Know or Care?

Remembering Those Already Lost

We Figured Out How to Make the Internet Worse!

Would The Bills Really Save Democracy?

‘The Sentinel’ at 45

How Democrats Can Win the Information War

Could Trump Be the River Card That Helps Democrats Hold the House?

A Week With Steve Bannon

Tom Nichols: Time for a Grand Coalition

Dear Democrats: Please Get Better at Politics.

Why RonJon Might Win

Ted Cruz’s Humiliation Isn’t the Worst Part

Are Democrats Trying to Lose Elections?

I Spent Insurrection Week Listening to Steve Bannon

More Depraved Indifference to Human Life

Let's Have Fun with Statistics!

Jan. 6th Changed How the World Sees America

Tim Miller: Cruz’s Grovel

The Final Humiliation

Should 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Be in the Best Picture Race?

Beautiful Ted's Excellent Adventure

The Death of the Conservative Party

Ted Cruz and the Politics of Groveling

‘Licorice Pizza’ Review

The Last Time We Had an Insurrectionist President

Jan. 6th Changed How the World Sees America

What Didn’t Happen After Jan. 6th

PODCAST: The Insurrection, One Year Later

The disturbing support for authoritarianism

The Insurrection, One Year Later | 1/6/22

January 6 Was Built on Years of Lies and Propaganda

This Is How We Beat the Next Insurrection

Peter Bogdanovich: 1939-2022

Jan. 6th Anniversary: What Now?

How Did We Not See It Coming?

New Poll: One Year After Jan. 6th, Disturbing Support for Authoritarianism

The Twisted, Trumpist Religion of Jan. 6th

The Ghost of Insurrection Past

The GOP’s Attempt to Memory-Hole Jan. 6th

Olivia Nuzzi: The Ambition of Dr. Oz

Trial Runs Always Look Incompetent

What They Said Then

J.D. Vance Versus Film Twitter

Navarro’s Nonsense Narrative

Did the January 6th Coup Fail?

The GOP’s Attempt to Memory-Hole Jan. 6th

January 6 Is a Day to Renew the Fight for Democracy, Not Commemorate an Ongoing Disaster

People We Used to Love

Biden Can Take Bold Steps for Dreamers in 2022

Evan Osnos: Hardening the Hard Core

Is Norman Mailer Too Offensive to Be Read Today?

Favorite Non-'Strangelove' Satires

Joe Biden and the Stock Market: A Parable

Thoughts On Our Political Exhaustion

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