Tim Miller

Hello and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

Congrats to all the Knicks fans that are listening and all my friends, the long-suffering Knicks fans, Justin and Jackson and Ben and the others.

I hope that none of you, like me...

turned the game off when the Knicks were losing by 29 and turned on Pod Save the World to prep for today's podcast.

I would say that the Pod Save the World episode was far less invigorating than the basketball game that I missed.

But the highlights looked exciting.

Kudos to the Knicks fans.

And this podcast is going to be invigorating.

I'm excited to welcome back one of our friends, staff writer at The Atlantic.

Her most recent books include Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

It's Anne Applebaum.

Hey, Anne, how you doing?

Fine.

How are you?

thunderstorm in poland you were telling me in the green room i'm hoping that does not augur poorly for the podcast but uh we'll see how it goes i can hear it right now and it would be amazing if you couldn't hear it but um because it's very loud but it won't last that long i i hope okay well our podcasts are kind of a rainstorm usually for listeners anyway so it's it's appropriate um

I want to start with Iran.

We're just going to kind of hop around the world as usual this morning.

Well, I guess last night we should say the U.S.

carried out a fresh round of strikes on Iran with Trump claiming it was an effort to force the regime into a deal.