One month in, the basic gambit of the second Trump administration seems to be that they think you’re stupid. Donald Trump’s team seems convinced they can ignore the long-standing problems that have made normal life insecure or impossible for average people in the United States — even that they can […]

Eliot and Eric discuss the Munich Security Conference including its background and history. They review the contradictory signals sent by the many Trump officials who have been in different parts of Europe in the run-up to and aftermath of the Munich conference. They discuss Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s comments, […]

Daniel Bessner Yes, one can even imagine the North Atlantic world as a single polity, in the sense that it has — or imagines itself as having — a shared cultural heritage. These are, after all, the major colonial powers. They’ve been working against each other, but also to some […]

Here at The Bulwark, you might have noticed, we tend to take a pretty cynical view of the current occupant in the Oval Office. And yet, we confess that not even we had this one on our Week Four bingo cards: The president of the United States made an unprecedented […]

This piece was first published in Flamman. The two heavily armed brothers were dressed like a masked tactical unit. They broke into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at noon on January 7, 2015, and opened fire at the editorial staff meeting. As they fled, the Salafist […]

Michael Steele speaks with Tamika D. Mallory, social justice leader and movement strategist who led the historic 2017 Women’s March. The pair discuss how Tamika discovered her purpose in activism, what makes for successful organizing and what leading a movement looks like in this new era of Trump. Check out […]

US President Donald Trump takes a question as he speaks during the signing of executive orders at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 18, 2025. Trump said he was “disappointed” to hear that Kyiv had complained about being cut out of talks between the United States and […]