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The Great GOP Purge Continues Apace
The Perfectly Pleasant 'Fall Guy'
GOP Veepstakes: Race to Self-Abase
Reconstructing Erna, Radicalizing the Center, and Fighting vs. Chilling Speech
Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger: Lying Is the Price of Admission
Putin Should Be More Afraid of Us Than We Are of Him
For Hamas, Survival Is Victory
Fighting Antisemitism or Chilling Speech?
Biden Risks Radicalizing the Center
Why Hope Hicks’s Testimony Matters
VIDEO: Trump WILL be convicted in the New York Case
Trump WILL be convicted in the New York Case
The Fall and Rise of 'Scarface'
VIDEO: Trump's "F U" Strategy (with Marc Caputo)
Trump's 'F U' Strategy (with Marc Caputo)
Behind the Military’s Recruitment Woes
Shapiro: Remind Rural Voters That ‘Common-Sense Solutions’ Are Better Than Trumpian ‘Chaos’
VIDEO: It's Always Dark in Trump's America (Live from Philadelphia)
The Soundscapes of Reznor and Ross
Why Kim Jong-Un Underestimated Kristi Noem
GOP Govs: Fake Meat, Fake Meetings
The Revolution Will Not Be Catered
Disaffection and Despair: Behind the Military’s Recruitment Woes
It's Always Dark in Trump's America (Live from Philadelphia)
There’s No Place Like Home: MTG Returns to the Fringe
The Original America First Movement
Gov. Josh Shapiro: We Can Do Big Things
The Gaza Protests are a Mirror Image of MAGA
Feds Aim to Reclassify Marijuana
Ben Wittes and Eric Cortellessa: Trump's Autocratic Agenda
Trump: ‘Marco has this residency problem.’
Pot Luck: Feds Poised to Reclassify Marijuana
What’s Still Controversial About Byron?
Hakeem Jeffries’s Mike Johnson Bear Hug
Bakari Sellers: We Are in a Dark Moment
The VP Dark Horse No One Is Talking About
'Challengers' Ignites Audience Desires
The U.S. Should Help This Russian Dissident Survive
How to Beat MAGA on Border Security
Christians and Political Power
Why Isn’t Biden Winning By 20 Points?
Everything Has Gone Trump’s Way. Will It Last?
‘Donald Trump Did This’: How to Beat MAGA on Border Security
Is David Ellison Hollywood's Great Hope?
Video: Arizona: The "Leave Me Alone" State (with Yvonne Wingett Sanchez)
Arizona: The "Leave Me Alone" State (with Yvonne Wingett Sanchez)
Trump, Institutions, Philosophies and Lies
Simon Rosenberg: I Think We're Going to Kick His Ass
Conservative Legal Philosophy Was All a Lie, Too
The Supreme Court Won't Save Us
The Hits Pay for Everything Else
Trump Melts Institutions, SCOTUS Edition
"Ukraine is anti-Christian" and other Russian Lies
Everyone Needs to CALM DOWN About SCOTUS Hearing
Video: Everyone Needs to CALM DOWN About SCOTUS Hearing
Will SCOTUS Give Trump Immunity?
SCOTUS Poised to Transform the Presidency
Supreme Court Poised to Transform the Presidency, Empower Trump if Re-Elected
Mark Joseph Stern and Dave Weigel: A Bad Day for Jack Smith
Facing One of the Largest War Machines in Human History
A Palestinian, a Jew, and a Priest Walk Onto a Campus
Pretty Good President, Not-So-Good Candidate
Here’s How Trump Will Try to Defend Himself in the Hush-Money Case
How Quentin Tarantino’s Self-Mythologizing Began
Can Ukraine Turn Things Around?
Olivia Nuzzi and Dana Mattioli: A Deflated Trump
Congress Pokes Trump, Putin in Eye
Real Talk: Can Ukraine Turn Things Around?
How “The Nelson Mandela of America” Is Making Bank Off His Criminal Trial
Trump Will Make Johnson Pay for his Ukraine Defiance
Trump's Court Case Sinking his Polls?
Frank Bruni: The Age of Grievance
The Corruption of Lindsey Graham
The Chilling, Frustrating 'Civil War'
Healthy Democracies Reject the Mob
Johnson Will Pay for Defying Trump on Ukraine
The Mayorkas Impeachment Was a Travesty and Dems Were Right to Toss It
The So-Called Satanists Out to Defend Religious Freedom
Don’t expect Trump to testify in his hush-money trial
One Cheer for Republicans Doing the Right Thing
Tom Mauser and Bill Kristol: Columbine, 25 Years On
The Case for Trusting Normie Republicans. Seriously.
How Biden Can Press His Ukraine Advantage
‘My Kevin’ Should’ve Listened to the Never Trumpers
A Courtroom Recital of His Misdeeds ‘Rattled’ Trump
Three Takeaways About Judge and Jury in Trump’s Manhattan Trial
The True Environmental Stakes of the 2024 Election
Wanted: Serious, Sober People (Video with Bill Kristol)
Wanted: Serious, Sober People (with Bill Kristol)
How Biden Got Mike Johnson to "Yes"
Amanda Carpenter: Welcome to Coalition Government
Do You *Remember* How Badly Trump Handled COVID?
Customers Have a Say in What Gets Made Too
A New Foreign Policy Era Dawns
Will Dysfunctional House GOP Do the Right Thing?
Trump Is Wrong. The Pardon Power is Not ‘Absolute.’
‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review
A Depressing Trip Across the Pond
Mike Johnson Finds a Way, Despite the Odds
Ali Vitali and Will Saletan: An Epiphany on Ukraine?
Something for Everybody on Ukraine
The Practical Perils of Overclassification
Immigrants and American Anxiety
Video: The Trial of Donald J. Trump
Ukraine Can’t Win If It Can’t Shoot Back
The Neutering of the GOP House
Trump’s Plan for Ukraine: Gift-Wrap It for Putin
Jan. 6th Prosecutions, Including Trump’s, May Be at Risk
The Economy Is Awesome and Here's Why That's Bad for Biden 🙄
Ross Douthat: Elite Outrage Is Not Enough
Johnson Moves on Ukraine Aid; Republicans Barely Holding It Together
‘An Increasingly Dangerous Place’
Sleepy Don Can’t Handle his Trial!
Orbánism Claims Another Victim
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s American Love Story
Michael Douglas’s ‘Franklin’: Saucy Statesman
Trump Falls Asleep on His First Day in Court
Bill Kristol and Ben Wittes: The Split-Screen Reality
Chris Sununu Is Either a Mountebank, a Coward, or a Fool
So You’ve Got a Crank Politician in the Family
No, U.S. Taxpayers Are Not Funding “Censorship” in Ukraine
Sex, Lies, and Videotape—A Guide to the First-Ever Criminal Trial of an Ex-President
The New Fractured World (with Hal Brands)
From 'Funny or Die' to Western Neo-Noirs
The "Uncommitted" Democrats (with Tommy Vietor)
The "Uncommitted" Democrats (with Tommy Vietor)
Jonathan Chait: Trump Broke the Scales
What Trump Did to Pro-Life Inc.
Tomorrow Usually Looks Like Today
The Future of Media Is Passive
Republicans Flee D.C., Responsibility
Judge Cannon Signals a New Plan
The Origins of Conservatism’s ‘Gnostic’ Meme
Thanks, Stormy! Trump's Legal Turmoil Starts Next Week.
Video: Thanks, Stormy! Trump's Legal Turmoil Starts Next Week.
Smith to SCOTUS: Don't Help Trump Delay
Isaac Arnsdorf and Joe Perticone: Trying to Finish What They Started
The Self-Immolation of the AZ GOP
Jack Smith to Supreme Court: Don’t Become a Tool of Trumpian Delay
Dissident’s Arrest Puts Putin’s Past on Trial
The Maryland Supreme Court Confronts the Desecration of a Black Cemetery
The Future of the Federal Judiciary Is on the Ballot This November, Too
Olivia Nuzzi: Kari Lake Is No Meryl Streep
Do the Right-Wing Grifters Ever Actually Pay?
The Candidates Are Old but the Issues Are New
The Future of the Federal Judiciary Is on the Ballot This November, Too
Trump’s ‘Virtues’ and Other Fairy Tales
What's Going on in Afghanistan?
Trump and Lindsey Graham Finally Found a Disagreement
Adam Kinzinger: Yes, Russian Propaganda Is Infecting the GOP
Hamas, Israel, and the Brutal Logic of War
Bringing 'Monkey Man' to the Big Screen
Could Dobbs Boomerang on Trump?
MAGA Takes Aim at RFK Jr.: ‘Radical F—ing Kennedy’
Reasons for Political Optimism
From Intellectual Dark Web to Crank Central
Bill Kristol: Pure Oligarchic Greed
Bigotry and Flattery Fuel Trump's Campaign
From Intellectual Dark Web to Crank Central
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The Best and the Worst of Streaming 2023
RFK Jr.: The Most Insider Outsider (with Astead Herndon)
Greeting the Eclipse the Ohio Way
Ron Brownstein: A Republican Realignment?
Joe Biden Is Not a “Genocidal Maniac”
No Logic, No Candidate, No Ticket
Biden Demands Israeli Changes on Aid—And Gets Some
The Glamour Shots That Defined Golden Age Hollywood
Monkey Man’s Unexpected Resurrection
Will Double Haters Park Their Votes on RFK Jr.?
Greeting the Eclipse the Ohio Way
False Trails and Bizarre Lies After Russian Terror Attack
Did Trump Really Threaten Biden?
Here’s What Congress Has to Get Done Before Election Day
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: There Is No Alternative
The Right’s “Patriotic Correctness” Double Standard
Strikes on Humanitarian Workers Are a Tragedy. Accountability Is a Necessity.
Did Trump Really Threaten Biden?
Mike Johnson’s Pathetic Apology Tour
Enemies and Traitors Working Together
The Fight Against Disinformation Is Getting Harder
Rep. Jared Moskowitz and Marc Caputo: The Least Productive Congress
The Suckers Fall For Trump's BS Because They Want To
The Fight Against Disinformation Is Getting Harder
‘Start the Steal’: Trump Once Again Planning to Overturn an Election
Democrats Should Reclaim Patriotism
Do They Know How Nutty RFK, Jr. Is?
Donald Isn’t the Only Trump Shilling Bibles
Stephen Richer and Will Saletan: Kari Lake Lied
How Dumb Is 'Godzilla x Kong'?
‘Start the Steal’: Trump Once Again Planning to Overturn an Election
Trump Won’t Commit on Florida Abortion Vote
The Right Invents a Biden ‘War on Easter’ 🐣
Bill Kristol: Easter Egg (T)roll
How Violence and Intimidation Are Key to Understanding Trump
The Right Invents a Biden ‘War on Easter’
John Eastman’s Moral Turpitude
Trump Can’t Lead America to Compete with China
Bringing 'Lousy Carter' to Life
Hands Off My TikTok (with Andrew Egger)
What to Expect from an Israeli Offensive in Rafah.
A.B. Stoddard: Liz Cheney Groupie
What's It Going to Take to Get Chris Christie Onstage at the DNC?
‘America First’ Means a World in Chaos
‘The Truth Vs. Alex Jones’; or, The Internet Versus Reality
How the Action Hero Has Changed
‘As Nasty As I Wanna Be’: Bad Boy Rapper Luther Campbell Eyes Florida Congressional Seat
How the American Jeremiad Can Restore the American Soul
‘Late Night with the Devil’ Review
What to Expect from an Israeli Offensive in Rafah
Here’s What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon
David Frum: American North Korea
Congress Already Showing Cracks on Aiding Baltimore After Bridge Collapse
Why Do All the Roads of Crazy Town Lead to MAGA?
In Russia, Mafiaism Is the New Communism
Here’s What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon
How to Think—and Talk—About Marriage Today
So You Want to Hire a Conservative Commentator...
Justin Kanew and Justin Fenton: Tennessee, Laboratory of Theocracy
RFK Picked Nicole Shanahan as His Running Mate. Here’s Why That’s Good for Biden. 😉
Trump Makes Billions, Thumps Bible
MAGA Isolationists, in Their Own Words
“There is no breaking point with Donald Trump.”
So You Want to Hire a Conservative Commentator...
Appeals Court Gives Trump the Gift of Smaller Bond, More Time
Baltimore's Bridge Disaster is Biden's Opportunity
House Republicans: Let’s Defund the Police
Aileen Cannon and an Alternative Theory of MAGA
Harvard Economists Confirm You’re Not Crazy: Inflation Was Really Bad
Appeals Court Gives Trump the Gift of Smaller Bond, More Time
Just Who Are Trump’s January 6th Heroes?
The Kremlin Fumbles a Terror Attack ... and Tries to Blame Ukraine
Hiring RNC Ronna Is a Flub for NBC
Bill Kristol and Joe Perticone: The Quitters
Trump Trials and Election 2024
A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill
No Candor, No Credibility: Hiring RNC Ronna Is a Flub for NBC
Trump’s Legal Fee Scam Is Just the Start, and Republicans Know It
"I voted for Donald Trump. My bad, fam." (with Tim Miller)
Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump: Four Things to Know
Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump: Four Things to Know
Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman: White Rural Rage
Aileen Cannon Is Trying to Put Trump Beyond the Rule of Law
A Good President Can Still Lose
RIP M. Emmet Walsh: He Had a Great Face
Running After the Cult of Beauty
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review
Lessons from America’s Forgotten War in Russia
President Biden Should Talk About Afghanistan
Everyone Is Praying for the End (of the Biden Impeachment Inquiry)
No, Really: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Nuclear Iran, NATO's Future, and America First Isolationism
Trump's New RNC Isn’t Sending Its Best
No, Trumpism Can’t Be Fused with Reaganism
When Is It Permissible to Rescue a Dog in Peril?
President Biden Should Talk About Afghanistan
One Cut at a Time: Judge Cannon Is Trying to Kill the Trump Documents Case
Ohio Says Goodbye to Anything Other Than MAGA
How I’m Helping Donald Trump Post His $557 Million Bond
“The Party Is Completely Gone”
One Cut at a Time: Judge Cannon Is Trying to Kill the Trump Documents Case
A Third Party Is the Coward’s Way Out
Dueling Discharge Petitions Give “Moderate” Republicans an Easy Out
Susan Glasser: An Edifice of Lies
‘A Whole Lotta Weirdness’: The Story of the Ohio Senate Candidate and a Sex-and-Swingers Website
Adam Sandler Goes Into Space, Man
Could Biden Beat Trump By Ignoring Him?
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
A Fake Vote for Putin, a Win for the Protesters
A Third Party Is the Coward’s Way Out
In Hungary, Scandal and Crisis Suddenly Energize the Opposition
Trump Desperate to Find Someone to Pay his Bond!
Bill Kristol and Ben Wittes: A Subversive Enterprise
Mike Pence Should Be the Biggest Story of the 2024 Campaign
Trump: J6 Convicts Are ’Unbelievable Patriots’
Schumer Broke with Netanyahu—Now How About Menendez?
Hisham Matar’s Tale of Friends and ‘Fathers’
In Hungary, Scandal and Crisis Suddenly Energize the Opposition
What Does a Film Commissioner Do?
Cleveland Rocks (with Henry Gomez)
Fani Willis Admonished, But Trump Prosecution Continues
Fani Willis Admonished, But Trump Prosecution Continues
Why E. Jean Carroll Should Sue Trump for the Third Time
Amanda Carpenter: Is Trump Depressed?
"I'll Just Vote for the Famous Football Man"
In Praise of the Amateur Film Archivists
It’s Time for Jack Smith to Seek Judge Cannon’s Removal from the Classified Documents Case
What If Americans *Can't* Understand the Trump Crazy?
Robert Downey Jr., Oscar Winner
Former GOP Lawmakers Urge Speaker Johnson to Pass Ukraine Aid
Trump's Georgia Acts Were Even Worse Than You Thought
Should Trump Get Intel Briefings? Lawmakers Are Nervous
Josh Barro: Dear Fed, Please Lower Interest Rates
RFK’s Appeal to Cranks Undercuts a Key Trump Constituency (Cranks)
The Return of Al Qaeda to Afghanistan: How Seriously to Take the Threat
The ‘Criminal Immigrant’ Canard
Judge McAfee’s Dismissal of Three Charges Against Trump Changes Nothing
Sasha Issenberg: Politics, Disinformation, and 2024
The Trumps Welcome the RNC into the Family
The Air Force, Drones, and Broken Institutions
Biden’s Two Cheers for the TikTok Bill
The DeSantis 2028 Shadow Campaign
The Wilt Chamberlain Conspiracy Theory and the ‘Presentism’ Trap
If Biden Doesn’t Run on Democracy, Who Will?
Biden Is Getting Older. Trump Is Losing His Mind.
GOP Oversold the Biden Is Old Meme
A Good God, Despite Everything
Evan Osnos: Biden Brims with Confidence
Trump TikTok Flip-Flop Flummoxes China Hawks
TikTok, Trump, Capitalism, and the Facts of Life
Agonizing About Biden’s Age Is Worse Than Irrelevant
The Unspeakable Longing that Moves the World
Bill Kristol and Sarah Longwell: Is the Wishcasting Over?
Kari Lake Won’t Entertain Your Crazy Hypotheticals
The High Stakes for Foreign Policy in the 2024 Election
Agonizing About Biden’s Age Is Worse Than Irrelevant
Whiffed Attempt to Claim Moderate Mantle for Trump
'Beetlejuice: The Musical,' Indie Film, and Life on the Road
Taken for Granted? (with Ashley Allison)
SOTU: Biden Calls Out “Dangerous” Trump, Irresponsible Republicans.
Ben LaBolt and Will Saletan: The Stakes of the Moment
Streaming Is the New Cable, Exhibit 498
Biden's State of the Union Masterclass
Did Biden's State of the Union Turn the Tables?
The Dreaded General Election Arrives
George Conway Explains: Trump's Road to Jail? An Update on Every Trump Case & Crime
State of the Union: Biden Calls Out “Dangerous” Trump, Irresponsible Republicans
How Many Haley Voters Can Biden Win?
What to Expect at the State of the Union Address
Tom Nichols: The GOP Needs a Fake Joe Biden
The Definitive Answer to the Question “Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?”
‘Time to Unite,’ Say Trump’s Last GOP Holdouts
The World Sees America Falling Apart
How Many Haley Voters Can Biden Win?
Taking MAGA Death Threats Seriously
The Roots of the Right’s Love of Dictators
Errin Haines: A Not So Super Tuesday
Nikki Haley Has Chosen to Be a Tool for Authoritarianism
This is the End, Our Primary Friends
On Super Tuesday, the GOP Gets What It Wants
Was Navalny Killed for Trolling Putin’s Rigged Election?
There’s Another Way Trump Could Get Immunity
Snoozer Tuesday: The Real Action Is Down Ballot
Catherine Rampell: Trump Would Be Bad News for the Economy
The One Weird Trick Trump Could Use to Get Away with January 6th
Super Tuesday: Today We Settle All Family Business
'Dune: Part Two,' a Desert Epic for the Ages
There’s Another Way Trump Could Get Immunity
How Donald Trump Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Nikki Haley Raises the Big Questions About Jan. 6th
The Courts’ Responsibility—and Ours
In Mess of an Opinion, SCOTUS Rules Trump Must Stay on Colorado Ballot
Hunter Biden’s Surprisingly Good Hardball
🚨Podcast: George Conway Explains SCOTUS Ruling in Trump Disqualification Case
Bill Kristol and Ben Wittes: We Still Have to Do the Work
Four Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Trump and the 14th Amendment
Biden’s Latest Brutal Batch of Polls
Don’t Despair: Trump Can Still Be Held Accountable
Hunter Biden’s Surprisingly Good Hardball
This Democracy Defender Has Trump’s Number
In Trump Immunity Case, SCOTUS Poised to Undermine Itself
The Nelms Brothers Talk 'Red Right Hand'
California Schemin' (with Jon Favreau)
Elon Musk, David Sacks, and the Ignorant Isolationism of the GOP
BONUS: George Conway on the Supreme Court's Legitimacy Battle
Kara Swisher: A Tech 'Tough Love' Story
Families Are Desperate for Family Movies
Nikki Haley Hates Her Voters and It’s Weird
The Threat of Christian Supremacism
George Conway Explains: SCOTUS order could be BAD NEWS for Trump
An Encore for Italian-American Fiction
Elon Musk, David Sacks, and the Ignorant Isolationism of the GOP
‘Drive-Away Dolls’ and ‘Land of Bad’
Quit With the Excuses, Mr. Trump: Pony Up Your $454 Million Judgment
Jamie Weinstein: The Cowardice of Mitch McConnell
Border Patrol Cosplay Is 2024’s Hottest Trend
Liz Cheney on American Authoritarianism
SCOTUS Throws Trump a Lifeline
Quit With the Excuses, Mr. Trump: Pony Up Your $454 Million Judgment
Putin’s Recycled Rationalizations
Justice Delayed: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Immunity Case
How Sweden’s NATO Accession Changes Europe’s Future
How Sweden’s NATO Accession Changes Europe’s Future
John Avlon: Winning Back the House from the MAGA Minions
I Am Sorry But Joe Biden Crushed It in Michigan
The Huge Effect of Parking Policy on How We Live
Bright Spots in a Bleak February
Why Pro-Life Republicans Are Tripping Up Over IVF
Improving Mental Health Care in the Military
The Fever Swamps Are in Charge
Government Shutdown Watch: Fourever After
Matt Yglesias and Brian Beutler: The Left Hits Biden Harder than Trump
LibsOfTikTok Tweets Then Deletes Crazy Accusation Against Trump’s MAGA Senate Candidate
Is 'Drive-Away Dolls' an Instant Cult Film?
After Alabama Ruling, Republicans Scramble to Embrace IVF
‘The numbers right now aren’t good.’
Improving Mental Health Care in the Military
It’s Too Easy for Police to Take Your Stuff.
Bill Kristol: A Shot of Hopium
Haley Is Exposing Trump's Electoral Weakness
Another Passenger for the Trump Train
It’s Too Easy for Police to Take Your Stuff
A Clear-Eyed Look at the Ukraine War as It Enters Its Third Year
Bonus: Next Level Live From Principles First 2024
Bonus Episode: South Carolina Circus Special
Nikki Haley's (New) Time for Choosing (with Tim Alberta)
Study What You Love or Study What Will Make You Money?
Study What You Love or Study What Will Make You Money?
Rob Reiner and Dan Partland: God & Country
Russia. It’s always been Russia.
George Conway Explains Why The House GOP are Lowlifes
American Credibility Is on the Line in Ukraine
Glenn Thrush and Tim Mak: Russia's Plots Against the West
Biden Impeachment Inquiry Is Political Improv
The Party of Trump Will Not Participate in the Justice System
What Happens if the House Fails in its Obligation
In South Carolina, Pro-Haley Groups Seek a Big Tent
American Credibility Is on the Line in Ukraine
Fani Willis Should Have Known Better
The Republican Party isn’t doomed. It’s changing to an asymmetric mode of politics.
The Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case—Which Goes to Trial Next Month—Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think
Tim Scott Believes in Systemic Bias—But Only Against Republicans
Biden Can't Avoid Gaffes. He Shouldn't Try.
Trump Sneakers Are the Perfect Con
Jane Coaston: The Culture War of Absurdity
Heads Trump Wins. Tails Putin Loses.
Why 'True Detective: Night Country' Was Doomed to Fail
“Lose our number”: Nikki Haley Suddenly Needs Black Voters in South Carolina
The ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ Once More
Bill Kristol: A Tacky, Low-Life Con Man
We’re not going to slow down this year.
Pro-Choice Trump-Voting Women Won’t Rescue Biden
Julian Schlossberg Returns to Tell More Hollywood Tales!
Life's Too Short for Trump (with Jonathan V. Last)
Fraudster Trump Fined $354 Million and Barred from Business in New York
How Authoritarians Will Use AI
Ben Wittes: Putin's Cheerleaders
Genuine Patriots and Useful Idiots
Ed Zwick on a Better, More Elegant Age of Filmmaking
Has Film Criticism Gotten Stale?
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
How Authoritarians Will Use AI
The Greatest 20th-Century Russian Novel Finally Gets a Film Version Worthy of It
Podcast: Bulwark Principles [2/15/24]
The GOP Base Wants the Fight Instead of the Victory.
Why Speaker Johnson Must Allow a Vote on Foreign Assistance
Robert Draper: The Talented Mr. Meadows
The Biden Impeachment Has Been Great for Joe Biden
The Real Georgia Voter Fraud Evidence Isn’t in a Computer. It’s in Our Hearts.
‘Trump’s Game of Thrones’: How Ronna McDaniel Survived So Long as RNC Chair
Eric and Eliot Look at the Bright Side
Republicans Are Lying About a Special Counsel Report, Again
The GOP Base Wants the Fight Instead of the Victory
Whatever Donald Wants, Donald Gets
Dems Took All the Reliable Voters
Are You Sick and Tired of All the Winning Yet?
Decision 2024: A ‘Well-Meaning’ Old Man vs. a Corrupt Old Man
Trump, Indicted for Mishandling Classified Documents, Asks Judge for More Classified Documents
Trump Says He Shouldn’t Be Tried with an Election Pending
Trump Says He Shouldn’t Be Tried with an Election Pending
Who Will Fill George Santos’s Expensive Shoes Tonight?
'The Zone of Interest's' Immersive Horror
The Senate Forges Ahead on Ukraine
An Outbreak of Republican Truth-Telling
Will Illegal Immigration Drive GOP Turnout as Much as Abortion Has Driven Democrats?
Why the EU Could Sanction Tucker Carlson
The Real Reason for All the Biden Age Talk
What Russians Think of Tucker Carlson’s Kiss-up Sitdown with Putin
Bill Kristol and A.B. Stoddard : Soak Up the Schadenfreude
How Biden Can Defuse the Age Problem
The Real Reason for All the Biden Age Talk
How Marijuana Could Become a Political Issue in 2024
How Piracy Persists on the Internet
Congress: The Dumbest It's Ever Been (with Joe Perticone)
Biden Classified Docs Report: Insult, Not Injury
David French and Bill Kristol: The Age Thing
America’s Fleeting Chance to Resume Leadership
‘Restore Point’ and Cinematic Reality
Willa Cather and the ‘Antique Virtues’
Biden Classified Docs Report: Insult, Not Injury
SCOTUS Likely to Rule States Can’t Bar Trump from Ballot Under 14th Amendment
What Alina Habba Is Really Good At
House Republicans Are a Majority in Name Only
Inside Trump’s Takeover of the RNC: “In 2024, daddy’s home.”
Why the Smart Money Is on Biden
This War is Going to End Exactly How the West Decides it Will
Trump Loses Again & SCOTUS Considers the 14th Amendment
What Alina Habba Is Really Good At
A Climate Action President Presiding Over an Oil and Gas Boom
Mike Makes a Mess & Ronna Romney Runs Away
The Money Pit of GOP-Aligned Super PACs.
Fabrizio: “Haley’s Magical Mystery Tour of the Unknown”
Tucker Carlson’s Fatal Attraction
There Is No Zuul. There Is Only Trump.
A Perfect Storm of GOP Dysfunction
Nancy Mace Is a Hot Mess, Not VP Material
The Money Pit of GOP-Aligned Super PACs
Appeals Court Decisively Smacks Down Trump’s Immunity Claim for Jan. 6th
Republicans Are Lying About Their Own Border Bill
The Strongman Party and a Fond Farewell
Republicans Are Lying About Their Own Border Bill
Election Security on Social Media Isn’t a Seasonal Business
Jonathan Taplin: The End of Reality
Republican Are Lying About the Immigration Bill Because They're Afraid of It
'Argylle' and the Unreality of Streaming Blockbusters
Mike Johnson Is Mainstreaming the Spirituality that Gave Us the Capitol Riot
How the Fani Willis Scandal Is Likely to Play Out
How the Fani Willis Scandal Is Likely to Play Out
Some news from us: The Bulwark is growing.
If You Came Down From Mars Would You Guess That Trump Was Winning?
How Weak is Trump? What about Biden?
Zelensky Is Reportedly Planning a Big Army Leadership Shakeup
‘I’ll permanently f*ck up your biorhythms’: The inside story of the DeSantis super PAC’s failure.
Here's Why Trump is Beatable (with Tristan Snell)
What Did Peak TV Let Escape from 'Pandora's Box'?
Nevada: State of Confusion (with Jon Ralston)
To Putin’s Surprise, an Opponent is Rising
Joe Tells Us What He Really Thinks About Trump
Michael Steele: Let it Rip, Joe
Negative Polarization Is a Heckuva Drug
The World Is a Dangerous Place
George Conway Explains: How Trump Lost $83M (with Roberta Kaplan!)
Do People Care That Trump's a Sociopath?
To Putin’s Surprise, an Opponent is Rising
Democracy on the Ballot (with Amanda Carpenter and Ian Bassin)
America’s Problem Is Policy, Not Power.
America’s Problem Is Policy, Not Power
Are New York Republicans Slow-Walking Into George Santos 2.0?
I Feel Like I’m Taking Crazy Pills About Nikki Haley
We Need a Zero Tolerance Iran Policy
Getting Off the Daily Hamster Wheel of Crazy
Iran Is a Problem. We Should Treat It Like One.
Where the Trump Disqualification Push Stands
Nikki Haley Just Can’t Quit Trump
MAGA Loses Their Minds Over Taylor Swift
Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?
Joe Klein and John Ellis: A Torrent of Stupid
The Fourteenth Amendment Wasn’t a Creative Writing Exercise
Some Good (and Bad) News About Free Speech on Campus
Taylor Swift's MAGA Meltdown! | Ballot Box with Bill & Tim
Biden vs. Trump: What Kind of Leader Do We Want on the World Stage?
Where the Trump Disqualification Push Stands
How Zelensky Rose to the Occasion
The Deeper Reason for the U.S. Military’s Recruitment Woes
Nikki Haley Is Finally Running a Real Campaign
Brian Klaas: Why Everything We Do Matters
Nikki Haley "Trusts Americans." Americans Should Not Trust Her.
Was 'Barbie' Snubbed in the Oscar Nominations?
Don’t Rush to Assign Collective Guilt in Gaza
MAGA Has TDS—Taylor Derangement Syndrome
The Deeper Reason for the U.S. Military’s Recruitment Woes
Trump’s $83.3 Million Temper Tantrum
All the Ex-President’s Sycophants
A Story About Hugh Hewitt, Immigration Reform, and Daddy Trump
There Are Brave GOP Senators—McConnell Should Be One
All the Ex-President’s Sycophants
The "Good Guy with a Gun" Myth (with Fred Guttenberg)
No One's Looking Out for You (with Brian Stelter)
Ukraine is Committed to Europe & Democracy
Mitch McConnell Is the Anti-Patriot
Democrats Need to Play Hardball with Crazy House Republicans (with Rep. Jake Auchincloss)
Edward Luce: Why Big Business Is Caving to Trump
Why Wall Street is Surrendering to Trump
Paul Giamatti, the Great Schlub of Our Age
Internet Imagination Running Amok
Ukraine Is Committed to Europe and Democracy
George Conway Explains: Trump’s 91 Problems (& Jail is One)
GOP Elites Are Going to Try to Create Another “Committee to Save America”
Republican Voters Are Already Splintering
Sure They Wanted to Hang Mike Pence, But It’ll Be Different for Me!
David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts on War
GOP Elites Are Going to Try to Create Another “Committee to Save America”
Get Ready for the Longest General Election Ever
What Happens to Europe If We Withdraw?
What Happens to Europe If America Withdraws?
Benjy Sarlin: Wake up to Reality
The Decline of the Republican Party Is a Choice
And Now, the Narrative Changes
Why Our Clients Sued to Keep Trump Off the Colorado Ballot
Supreme Court Down to the Wire
Nikki Haley’s Problem: Her Party Is Nuts
‘Nazi Town, USA’: It Did Happen Here
Biden’s Low Approval Rating May Not Matter.
The Trump High Water Mark is Coming
Michael Kruse: Trump's Grand Finale
Trump’s Latest Victim: The Discerning New Hampshire Voter
'The Holdovers,' a Very Nice Movie!
New Hampshire 2024: The Feel-Bad Story of the Year
The Herd of Independent Minds Stampedes Off the Cliff
Biden’s Low Approval Rating May Not Matter
Ross Douthat Once Again Downplays the Trump Threat
Will Saletan: A Rogue Presidency
Cancel the 2024 Presidential Debates if Trump Is the GOP Nominee
Could This Trump Argument Persuade SCOTUS?
Sorry, Nikki: There’s No Path to the Nomination with Your New Hampshire Coalition
Ross Douthat Once Again Downplays the Trump Threat
How Long Does the Planet Earth Have? (with David Wallace-Wells)
New Hampshire Weirdos for Nikki? (with Tim Miller)
Jamie Dimon Joins the Trump Normalizers
Amanda Carpenter: The Authoritarian Playbook
Why Not Have ‘True Detective’ *and* ‘Night Country’?
Jason Statham, the Last Great Action Star?
The Authoritarian Playbook: 2025
Jamie Dimon Joins the Trump Normalizers
Liberalism in Defense of Freedom
George Conway Explains E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Donald Trump
What Trump Officials Say About Trump
‘Border Security’ Is the New Tool to Block Regular Business
How Much Trump Paid for Each Vote
Barbarossa: The war in the east
Sarah Longwell: The Time to Speak Out Is Now
George Conway Explains E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Donald Trump
Supreme Court Considers Case That Could Fundamentally Remake Federal Regulation
It’s Time for Former Trump Officials to Come Out Against Him
It’s White Flag Week for the GOP
The Submission to Trump is Insane (Ballot Box with Bill Kristol)
The DNC Throwing Shade at Asa Is the Worst Side of the Democratic Party
It’s White Flag Week for the GOP
Here’s Why DeSantis *Should* Be Losing
Iowa’s Silver Lining & MAGA Rallying Cries
Trump’s Show of Force in Iowa Signals Broader Weakness
The GOP Chose Not to Stop Trump
A.B. Stoddard: Dead Ends after Iowa
Does 'The Beekeper' Have Audiences Buzzing?
Joni Ernst, Iowa, and the GOP Circa 2024
Rallying Cries for the MAGA Right
Anti-Ukraine Chorus Seeks to Exploit an American’s Death
Tonight: It Begins in Snowy Iowa
Will Saletan: The GOP Surrenders before the First Vote
Bad Economy Vibes Are a Threat to Democracy
Stories of Black American Courage and Faith
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ‘the Minds and Hearts of Children’
Jeffrey Epstein's Secrets (with Julie K. Brown)
How 'The Family Plan' Became a Hit for Apple
It's Not That Hard to Win Iowa (with J. Ann Selzer)
Karen Tumulty: Trump, the World’s Biggest Victim
How Technology Built the (Ad-Free) Golden Age of TV
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Canard
‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ With a Female Face
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
Podcast: Last TNB Before Iowa [1/11/24]
The End of the Pretend Primary Is in Sight
Speaker Mike Johnson’s Days Might Be Numbered
A $4 Million Bonfire of GOP Donor Class Vanities
What happens when the Russians come to your country
Trump And Fox: So Happy Together … Again
The End of the Pretend Primary Is in Sight
Trump’s Lawyers Argue Biden Can Assassinate Him
“Trump will spend the rest of his life in jail”
Good Luck Finding “Impartial Jurors” for the Trump Trials
Mark Hertling: Defending American Values
We Are Living in the Upside Down
Yes, Presidents Can Commit Crimes
Anti-Trump Means Anti-Democracy? You Can’t Be Serious
Good Luck Finding “Impartial Jurors” for the Trump Trials
A Ray of Hope for the 2024 Elections from Pennsylvania
Don’t Let Trump Dictate the Conversation
Mayorkas Impeachment Hampers Bipartisan Immigration Deal
Tim O'Brien: The Most Corrupt President. Ever.
Elise Stefanik Has a Warning for America: #StoptheSteal 2024 Is Coming
The Tricky Lessons of ‘American Fiction’
Donald Trump’s Crab Bucket Moral Universe
The Danger of Trump’s Bogus “Summary of Election Fraud”
Don’t Let Trump Dictate the Conversation
Putin’s 2024 Fears: Ukrainian Arms, Russian People, and Pretty Women
‘The Most Urgent Question of Our Time’.
Special Edition: George Conway Explains Everything
This Might Be the High-Water Mark of Trumpism
‘The Most Urgent Question of Our Time’
Creepy Messianic Pro-Trump Video May Come Back to Bite Him
Trump on the Take? Foreign Govts Paid His Businesses Millions When He Was in Office
What's Next for the Populists? (with Josh Green)
What's Next in 'The Streaming Wars'
January 6: If They Had Just Told the Truth (with Rep. Adam Kinzinger)
Republican Hypocrisy on Ukraine.
Tom Nichols: Claudine Gay Had to Go
‘May December’ Is Ripped from the Headlines. That’s Fine.
Republican Cowards Expose Themselves
Founding Members Fuel Our Growth
How Fragile Are Our Constitutional Norms?
Republican Hypocrisy on Ukraine
‘The Iron Claw’ and ‘Ferrari’ Reviewed
Literature in a Time of Conglomeration
They Are Sending Their Best People
Podcast: 2024 is Here! [1/4/24]
Homeland Security Secretary Facing Impeachment for Bad Vibes
What Will the Supreme Court Do?
The Dangers of Unbridled Optimism
The Price of Strategic Slovenliness
McConnell’s Two Big Legacies: The End of Roe and the Forever Grip of Trump
Susan Glasser: The Fever Won't Break
Harvard Can’t Have a President Who Plagiarizes. But America *Can* Have a President Who Coups.
Nikki Haley and the Banality of Awfulness
The End of Extreme Gerrymandering in Wisconsin?
Trump Supporters’ Weak Case Against Kicking Him Off the Ballot
Nikki Haley and the Power of Cowardice
Christie Can’t Endorse Haley Now
Congress Is Still Writing 2023 on Its Checks
Will Saletan: The Guts to Tell the Truth
307 Days to Go: The Clock Is Running
Is Disqualifying Trump Anti-Democratic?
The Huge Legal Questions Ahead in 2024