As a former legal aid attorney, Kevin De Liban knows President Donald Trump’s plan to double down on artificial intelligence comes with major risks. Over and over, De Liban has seen how automated decisions can ruin people’s lives. Just before Christmas in 2022, for example, Robert Austin and his daughter […]

  It seems like Elon Musk is running America right now. SOME people in our focus groups don’t like it all that much. Legendary tech reporter and Musk-whisperer Kara Swisher joins the show to discuss Musk’s MAGA character arc and what his real motivations are with DOGE.   Great Job […]

Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and Nikki Haley, who once called Putin a ‘war criminal’ are now pushing Trump’s pro-Russia narrative. Their hypocrisy is STUNNING. Sarah Longwell breaks it all down. Leave a comment As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams and […]

Sam Stein talks to Andrew Egger about his article Inside DOGE’s Dumbest Cut Yet. Leave a comment As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left-hand […]

The Trump administration just paused an initiative to get airline passengers higher compensation when carriers lose their luggage or overbook them for a flight. In a regulatory filing submitted today, administration officials announced they would delay enforcement of the Joe Biden–era rule protecting passengers, named “Denied Boarding Compensation and Domestic Baggage […]

GOP Rep. McCormick faces a raucous crowd at his townhall after a packed house pushes back against the Trump administration. Leave a comment As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? […]

Sarah and JVL talk about Elon Musk’s chainsaw, Chainsaw Al Dunlap, Mitch McConnell’s pathetic legacy, the uselessness of moderate Republicans, good wolves, bad wolves, and Matt Schlapp. It’s a super-sized show and an instant classic. Leave a comment The Secret Podcast is exclusively for members of Bulwark+ featuring Jonathan V. […]

Ukraine’s history since at least since 2004 is a story of betrayal. It was betrayed by Russia in 2014 and even more so in 2022, as Moscow trampled on the 1994 Budapest Memorandum that had guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity. But Ukraine has also been betrayed by its supposed allies in […]

Sean Starrs There are various ways that the world dominance of American TNCs boosts American state power. The global dominance of Wall Street (financial services in figure two), for example, helps to ensure that the US dollar remains the de facto world currency. The dominance of American tech firms helps […]

In a sweltering café just outside Tunis’s old medina last summer, a local human rights defender spoke of living in a climate of fear. You couldn’t remain in one place for too long. At a galloping pace, he told me stories of vicious police raids into informal camps of people […]

Two years and ten days after a mob of his partisans invaded and trashed Brazil’s houses of government, the law has come for Jair Messias Bolsonaro. The former far-right president of Brazil stands accused, in concert with thirty-three of his closest allies, of leading a criminal conspiracy to carry out […]