Identity Trudeau, Buttigieg, Harris, Yang: Identity Politics Eats Its OwnThe Bulwark The most woke politician on the planet finds his re-election campaign rocked by an apparent penchant for dark makeup. An Indian-African-American …
U.S. Politics How Did the Democrats Step on This Rake? Again?The Bulwark Last Saturday night, the Ghost of News Cycles Past blew in with a bizarre new twist in the year-old Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation drama. …
U.S. Politics Everything You Need to Know About the DNI, the IG, and the Whistleblower ReportThe Bulwark The Trump administration is assaulting the rule of law. Again. And don’t count on any of the three branches of our government to repel it. This time, …
U.S. Politics Is Germany the ‘Weakest Link’ in Western Democracy?The Bulwark This week marked the 100th day of the Hong Kong protest movement, with lots of tear gas disseminated but no sign of tensions subsiding. While the …
Bernie Sanders Bernie Tries To Outflank Warren On ImmigrationThe Bulwark Not long ago, Bernie Sanders was a heterodox immigration voice on the left. For much of his career, the socialist senator’s pro-labor principles led …
War What Happens When the World’s Policeman Goes Off DutyThe Bulwark America has spent the last decade in retrenchment — consider Obama’s eight years of retreating followed by Donald Trump’s isolationism — and the …
Corey Lewandowski Let Corey Be CoreyThe Bulwark Corey Lewandowsky wants to beat a woman. I’m talking about incumbent New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Why, what did you think I meant? Yesterday …
Corey Lewandowski 33 Questions About Lewandowski’s LieThe Bulwark On Tuesday, President Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testified before the House Judiciary Committee during the first hearing of …
Reminder: Valerie Plame Is LyingThe Bulwark Former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who became famous following the leak of her identity, is running for Congress. Her campaign kickoff ad is based …
Early Post-Debate Polling Is A Horror Show For BetoThe Bulwark Now that Democratic primary voters have had a few days to ruminate on last week’s royal rumble Democratic debate, post-debate polling has begun to …
Brexit Won the Popular Vote But Lost the Electoral CollegeThe Bulwark The past few decades in which Europe has been prosperous and (largely) at peace, joined together by links of trade and political cooperation, have …
Kamala Harris Why Does Kamala Harris Hate the Constitution?The Bulwark Kamala Harris formally launched her presidential campaign in in January. Nine months later, she’s finally found her reason for running. In her …
Jerry Falwell Jr. Liberty University’s Civil WarThe Bulwark There is a civil war under way at Liberty University, America’s most famous evangelical college. Jerry Falwell Jr., who has helmed the university …
Fred Trump Democrats Should Run Against the Trump EconomyThe Bulwark One thing stands between Donald Trump and the richly-deserved ignominy of a single term: the economy. Trump will attempt to rally his base through …
Iran The Problem with Trump’s Iran StrategyThe Bulwark Iran’s “proxy war” with Saudi Arabia got a little bit closer to the real thing over the weekend when Houthi rebels attacked the kingdom’s oil …
Brett Kavanaugh The New Kavanaugh Story Is Really About Biden 2020The Bulwark To read the coverage of the latest Brett Kavanaugh story is not the same as reading the story itself which is, as a matter of evidence-based …
U.S. Politics Politics of BullshitThe Bulwark “Hell yes,” Beto insists amid a flurry of f-bombs, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.” We are, I guess, supposed to take O’Rourke seriously …
How the Right Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DeplatformingThe Bulwark One of the scariest words in the English language is “resurfaced.” It’s what happens—just by coincidence, surely—all too often when a famous person …
U.S. Politics Foreign Policy Is Serious Business. Alas, We Have an Unserious President.The Bulwark President Trump celebrated the 18th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks a few days early by announcing that he had planned to hold …
U.S. Politics No Enemies to the Right?The Bulwark Conservatives have long criticized liberals for what they see as a policy of “no enemies to the left.” That is, they said, liberals might not be …
Beto O'Rourke Beto O’Rourke Is Mortgaging His FutureThe Bulwark Beto O’Rourke, 2020 underdog, had the debate performance he wanted Thursday night. For the past six months, the candidate has languished in the polls …
U.S. Politics When Ethics Violations Are as Bad as Breaking the LawThe Bulwark There’s a lot of “he said, she said” going on over the North Carolina House of Representatives’ surprise vote on Wednesday to override Democratic …
Beau Biden And Yet, Joe PersistedThe Bulwark Let’s get this out of the way from the start: A three-hour debate with 10 candidates is like the Bataan death march. It’s a depressing slog and we’re …
Donald Trump No Man Is an Island (But Trump Is Getting Kind of Lonely)The Bulwark The most recent polling data shows that Trump’s August slide is fast becoming a September swoon. Worst of all from Trump’s perspective is that the …
Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Threat That’s Hiding in Plain SightThe Bulwark Early in my Army career, I served as a foreign area officer in Asia focused on China and have spent the succeeding years in intelligence. Right away …
U.S. Politics Doing Nothing Is a Choice, TooThe Bulwark During the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Republican primaries, the Iraq war was litigated and re-litigated (and then argued over some more). Rightfully so: …
Jerry Falwell Jr. Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Donald TrumpThe Bulwark Remember when Jerry Falwell Jr., was a big player? The fortunate son of the moral majority, Falwell spent the decade following his televangelist …
Mitch McConnell How Mitch McConnell Made Himself King of the SenateThe Bulwark Congress returns this week from its extended recess facing three different but equally massive tasks: It must fund the government by the end of the …
The Democrats are Blackmailing ThemselvesThe Bulwark While researching a book a few years back, I interviewed a national political operative who let me in on a shocking campaign practice. He said there …
U.S. Politics Three Ways the GOP Could Be Vastly Better on Race RelationsThe Bulwark The Trump moment in the GOP won’t last forever. Really. There will be a GOP after the cult of personality ends, and Republicans will have to decide …
