Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Andrew Weissmann: A MAGAtocracy and a Babytocracy
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
While Republican senators worked to protect Kash Patel from answering some ver-wee hard questions at...
Tommy Vietor: Deniability Is All That Matters
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Republican senators don't care that Trump's nominees are lying—like Kash pretending he didn't know...
Mona Charen: A Moment of Truth
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump is trying to seize powers he doesn't have—like unilaterally rewriting laws and deciding on h...
Chris Hayes and Alex Kantrowitz: Trying To Break the Whole Thing
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The directives putting a pause on federal grants and the firing of career DOJ prosecutors is about t...
Bill Kristol: Trump Loves Fraud
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Gullible Republicans have really been proving what they're made of recently, including Susan Collins...
David French: Vengeance and Rage
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump launched his first week back in office signaling to loyal followers that they are free to brea...
Sam Stein and Adrian Carrasquillo: We Are in a Simulation
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Emotionally-stunted video game boys, who are also government contractors and/or quasi government off...
Stephanie Ruhle: Unlimited Money and No Rules
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
All those CEOs cartwheeled down to Mar-a-Lago and then dutifully lined up at Trump's inauguration be...
Tom Nichols: A Farce and a Sham
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump tried to pencil out literal words in the Constitution and then freed 1,500 violent insurrectio...
Bill Kristol: Resist the Nihilism
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump wants us to believe that nothing matters, so we'll brush off all his corruption and grifting a...
Ron Brownstein: Don't Take the Bait
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump governed as a wartime president against blue America, so expect him to keep stirring up cultur...
Melissa Murray and John Avlon: The Dark Legal Clouds Ahead
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Pam Bondi is likely to sail to confirmation—even if she's an election denier and pretends she was ...
Adam Kinzinger and Mark Kelly: Dirty Little Secret
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Being secretary of defense is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. But after Pete Hegseth was pluc...
Peter Hamby: The Politics of a Firestorm
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Real estate is everything in Los Angeles. Karen Bass's absence from the city when the fires broke ou...
Bill Kristol: Cannons All the Way Down
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump's favorite judge, Aileen Cannon, has been attempting to exercise authority she doesn't have ov...
Amanda Carpenter: We Are Team Karen (Pence)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"Mother" Pence is owed an apology. She snubbed Trump so hard and so beautifully at Jimmy Carter's fu...
Derek Thompson and Elizabeth Weil: The Trend Toward Solitude
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Americans have been spending more time alone—and less time doing face-to-face socializing—than w...
Liam Donovan and Brendan Boyle: The Great Grift
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump talked a lot more about Hannibal Lecter during the campaign than one of his actual top priorit...
Charlie Warzel: Zuck Sucks Up to Trump
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Mark Zuckerberg is doing all he can to get an audience with the big man at Mar-a-Lago, including pra...
Bill Kristol: The Preposterous and Ridiculous Lies About the FBI
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kash Patel's Jan 6 lie requires FBI officials to have been able to see into the future: to *know* th...
Jonathan Martin: A Resilient City
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New Orleans is the most special city in America, but it's a place that also breaks your heart. Local...
David Frum: Sociopaths and Political Tribalism
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Apart from the death and carnage on New Years Day in New Orleans, Americans revealed another darknes...
Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: We Are Sticking With the Mission
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
While some media outlets may be moving to accommodate Trump out of fear he'll target them, The Bulwa...
Bill Kristol: Exploit the Rifts
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
MAGA v DOGE, the Christmas gift that keeps on giving, is an early sign of the coming infighting that...
'The Hottest Circle of Hell Is for Those Who Stay Neutral'
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Do you have to pick a side in politics? That was the question Reason Magazine, the flagship publicat...
Jon Favreau: Funny and Horrible
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
While it's still going to be bad, for the first time since the election we're beginning to see that ...
Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We are seeing in real time what it looks like to turn a democracy over to an oligarch, namely the un...
Mark Hertling: Putin's Weakness
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Russia is on its weakest footing since it invaded Ukraine: Putin has destroyed his military, his eco...
Tom Nichols: Don't Descend into Darkness
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The existential dread has a strong pull, especially since Trump has made a lot of Americans worse pe...
Bill Kristol: Fake Nicey-Nicey Sh**t
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have joined the preemptive capitulation parade by settling Trump'...
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration,...
Matt Yglesias and Tyler Austin Harper: Popularism v Populism
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The origins of the Democratic party's current malaise include ineffective messaging on climate and e...
Adam Kinzinger and Pat Ryan: Bring It On
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Team Trump is trying to intimidate the opposition. Stop showing them your fear. Plus, Gaetz moves fr...
Susan Glasser: A Lame Lame Duck
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A sense of Biden's irrelevance has descended on Washington, with Trump flying off to Paris and meeti...
Bill Kristol and Michael Weiss: Catastrophic Success
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is threatening members of Congress with jail and Republican senators may be circling the wagon...
Jamelle Bouie: Bad at Being President
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump may have authoritarian aspirations, but he's very bad at governing and managing—four weeks i...
David French: We Are in the Bad Multiverse
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Kash Patel is making legal threats to try to silence his critics, and Tulsi Gabbard wouldn't even be...
Rep. Mikie Sherrill: Who Will Be In Charge of Our National Security?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We're going back to a president who can't be bothered to read his briefing books. So who will be get...
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Russ Vought, Trump's nominee to run the Office of Management and Budget—and a Project 2025 author—...
Bill Kristol and Elaina Plott Calabro: A Sordid Lot
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kash Patel, who could potentially run the FBI, is a compulsive liar who can't keep his facts straigh...
Jonathan Chait: A Scary Clown
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Hegseth may have a winning Fox & Friends smile, but his desire to shoot protesters, commit ...
George Will: Democracy Rests on Persuasion
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For those living under a gray cloud because of what the American electorate has done, it's time to g...
Bill Kristol: We Were Right To Be Alarmed
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The danger of Trump's nominees is that the main condition of employment—aside from being on Fox—...
Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: The Lonely Boy Club
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The country is now paying for the pathologies of the oligarchs and baddies who were stuffed into loc...
Sam Harris: Our Democracy Is Already Unraveling
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Because Trump wasn't penalized for trying to steal the 2020 election, our democracy has already been...
Marc Caputo and Dan Goldman: Trump v. the United States
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The incompetent and compromised nominees Trump has assembled at record pace show how little regard h...
Jen Psaki: Don't Speak to Me
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats focus too much on reaching white college-educated voters, and the threat to democracy ...
Bill Kristol: A Power Play for Autocracy
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is flooding the zone with unqualified nominees who would destroy government norms and standard...
Amanda Carpenter: Lessons from the Tea Party Era
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Cruz and Jim DeMint ground things to a halt in the Senate quite effectively during the Obama era...
Rick Wilson and David Brooks: MAGA to the Max
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's appointments—like degenerate Matt Gaetz and Putin stooge Tulsi Gabbard—are about his raw...
Osita Nwanevu: Democrats Need A Better Story
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans have been good at telling a story about the economy and how people should feel about it,...
Jon Lovett: The Worst People Are Happy
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The worst people believe their worldview has been validated, while the best people are uncertain, sc...
Bill Kristol: A Pro-Putin America First
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump team is moving quickly to sell out Ukraine, but it's not clear yet whether Putin would set...
BONUS EPISODE with James Carville: We Are the Opposition
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to get our opposition organized and develop a narrative about Trump. And one narrative tha...
Ben Wittes: Americans Elected a Serial Criminal to Be President
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump trials were a cosmic democratic disaster, and the justice system did not do justice: Trump...
Tom Nichols: This Is What They Want
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The American people made their choice, and the fight to preserve the global democratic coalition aga...
Sarah Longwell and Jonathan V. Last: Election Debrief
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala's tailored campaign message and ground game didn't matter. Voters were unhappy with Biden and...
David Frum: Pride in the Fight
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever happens tonight, Never Trumpers and voters should be proud that we rose to the challenge of...
Bill Kristol: Maybe It's Dobbs, After All
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans are crowing about a big turnout of early rural voters and a decrease in African American...
Ann Selzer: How Could This Be?
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has ...
Mehdi Hasan: Memory-Holing the Worst President
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The WSJ wants readers to think that Trump is too stupid to coup—despite Jack Smith's indictment sh...
Adam Kinzinger: All the Little Bros
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump and his pack of dude-bros are pitting men against women, even inside the home—the current Re...
Alex Vindman and Lakshya Jain: No More Petty Tyrants
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The character of the nation is on the line: We have to stop an autocratic minority from imposing its...
Robert Draper: The Prosecutor
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala Harris sees the world as divided between those who follow the rules and those who break them—...
Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol: It's Already Happening Before our Eyes
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By de-prioritizing The Washington Post in his business empire, Jeff Bezos is showing exactly how a f...
Bret Stephens: Pray Kamala Wins
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is corrosive to the soul of our democracy. He's a bigot, an ogre, and an isolationist. And for...
David French: 2017 Trump Is Gone
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A whole faction of Red America thinks the judges and tax cuts in the first half of Trump's preside...
Jeffrey Goldberg and Catherine Rampell: The Un-American
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump doesn't share our values or our norms, and he wants the privilege of being able to shoo...
Mitch Landrieu and Will Saletan: Trump Lives in the Mud
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ex-POTUS has resolved that his route to regain power is creating hate, fear, and anger. Meanwhil...
Mallory McMorrow and Bill Kristol: Imagining a World Where Trump Is Irrelevant
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Remember those few weeks when Trump ceded the stage to Kamala and didn't do any campaigning? How glo...
Live from Philadelphia (Again)
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Bulwark kicked off its weekend 'Swing State Swing" in the City of Brotherly Love Thursday befor...
Bob Woodward: The Threat Is High
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the release of Woodward's "War," Gen. James Mattis has reached out to the journalist to endors...
Susan Rice and Mondaire Jones: The Dictator Hugger
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amb. Rice says Trump is a "surrender monkey" who is all about building up Russia and China for his o...
Tom Nichols: He's Bait for the 25th Amendment
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's fitness for office is a central question now more than ever after his bizarre town hall Mond...
BONUS EPISODE with Jason Calacanis: The Civil War in Silicon Valley
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump used to be considered an existential threat throughout Silicon Valley, but now the tech world ...
Bill Kristol: He's Not Hiding the Authoritarianism Anymore
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's authoritarianism has intensified—with his calls for using military force against political...
Susan Glasser and Jared Polis: Shaking Up the Holdouts
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barack Obama made a direct appeal to people who don't like Trump, but may end up voting for him anyw...
David Axelrod: Change Agent
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Voters have a real hunger for something beyond the constant state of pugilism and the weaponizing of...
James Carville: We Just Have to Win
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The information ecosystem is getting crazier than ever: The monster Trump created must be fed, even ...
Timothy Snyder: The Politics of Impotence
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump and Vance are pioneering a form of politics where American power means nothing, everything is ...
Bill Kristol: The Musk of it All
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do not sleep on this: The billionaire tech bros are on board with the authoritarian project so they ...
BONUS EPISODE with Doug Emhoff: We Have a Mission
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The second gentleman says Kamala has really stepped it up for this abbreviated campaign, and is show...
John Dickerson: Hero Story
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Cheney sticks to her values under incredible pressure in an old-fashioned Republican way. And sh...
Kaitlan Collins: Still Surreal
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Smith's filing on Jan 6 reads almost like a novel—with Trump shrugging about Pence having to ...
Jim Messina and Michael Weiss: Midwestern Nice
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Harris campaign clearly opted not to send out an attack dog in last night's debate. While JD Van...
Lis Smith: Go After the Weird Angle
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
JD Vance may be a good debater, but his creepy obsession with lady parts could put him on defense. M...
Bill Kristol: Prepping A Closing Message
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the Trump campaign is opting for trans panic, Kamala really needs to remind people to be alarm...
Amanda Carpenter: Get With the Program, Already
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If Mitt Romney and Mike Pence really want to have influence over a future GOP, then they need to joi...
Pete Buttigieg and A.B. Stoddard: Talk Is Cheap
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump likes to promise a manufacturing renaissance as though one isn't going on right now. But we al...
Dana Milbank: Fools on the Hill
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The current Congress is the most do-nothingest since 1861—when the Union was falling apart right b...
Michael Medved: America Is No Accident
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Longtime conservative talk show host Michael Medved believes America was chosen for a special missio...
Bill Kristol: Trump's Just A Huckster at Heart
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melania is selling Christmas ornaments, while Trump is offering up 99.9% silver coins—the vibe fee...
Peter Hamby: Living the Racist Porn Message Board Life
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Robinson thinks so much about porn, he wouldn't have enough head space or time to do the job of...
Sam Stein and Susanne Craig: Look Beyond the Polls
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're swimming in polling data, but we should also consider that Kamala has more money and a superio...
Tom Nichols: The Cat Was in the Basement
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
JD Vance thought he had confirmation of his Haitian migrant conspiracy when a Springfield, OH reside...
Amy Walter: A 50-50 Race
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The presidential race is essentially tied, with movement on the margins that may not be picked up in...
Bill Kristol: Fanning the Flames
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA is trying to take political advantage of what was apparently a second assassination attempt on ...
Jeffrey Goldberg: Trump Doesn't Believe in America
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The former president doesn't think our country is exceptional, and the political press won't hold hi...
Mark McKinnon: Taking Back the Freedom Agenda
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While Republicans paint a vision of America as a dystopian hellscape, Kamala is helping herself to t...
S.E. Cupp: A Sucker and a Loser
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala laid trap after trap during the debate, and because he's so impulsive, Trump walked into ever...