Overtime is for everyone. If you’re a subscriber: thank you. If you’re not, there’s no better time to subscribe to Bulwark+ than today. If you like today’s issue, you can share this newsletter with someone you think would value it. Marco Rubio on February 16, 2025 during his first Middle […]

JVL and Mona talk about the post-Pax Americana world, Napoleon, and taking to the streets. Just Between Us is a podcast exclusively for members of Bulwark+ featuring Mona Charen and her Bulwark colleagues unburdening themselves each Tuesday evening. To listen to this episode become a Bulwark+ member today. Join now […]

Tim Miller and Jonathan V. Last discuss Donald Trump and his administration’s new alliances with previous adversaries, and the flipping on allies. Read JVL’s The Triad, “Meet Kevin Hassett: Conservatism’s Invincible Ignoramus” Morning Shots, “Staying Patriotic in Trump’s America” Leave a comment Read more Great Job Jonathan V. Last & […]

The Pillar’s Ed Condon joins JVL to talk about the Trump administration’s confrontation(s) with the Catholics. Leave a comment Follow on Substack. WTF 2.0 is a pop-up show on Substack during the first 100 days of second Trump administration. Join JVL at 1pm on Tuesday, February 25 for a live […]

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Members of Congress are not quite sure who exactly is in charge of American foreign policy right now. It’s not about who is actually making the decisions. That, they know. Instead, we might put the core issue in the form of a question: “What gave […]

The Gorge is a wildly silly action-sci-fi-horror-romance, released on Apple TV+ on Valentine’s Day to alert you to the way it stresses the “unusual love story” angle. Maintaining a conventionally brooding atmosphere through gloomy CGI, The Gorge is about two top snipers stationed in towers on opposite sides of a […]

Trump is A-OK with all the murder and mayhem Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, and he’s making a mockery of all his enablers who claimed he’d do a Reagan-esque kind of deal. Instead, Ukraine wasn’t even invited to the “peace” talks, while Trump tries to impose an extortion deal on […]

Andrew Egger and Joe Perticone discuss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s defiant strikes at Trump Border Czar Tom Homan as he repeatedly goes after her for supporting education of laws and constitutional rights. Leave a comment As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams and […]

As the smoke settles on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and its replacement by Islamist leadership under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), it is clear that Turkey’s far-right governing bloc has emerged from the tumult strong and emboldened. What is less clear is whether this will mean that […]

Tim Miller appeared on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle to discuss Democratic donors who are afraid of Trump seeking retribution against them. 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. […]

Programming note: Today on WTF 2.0 I’m going to be joined by ’s Ed Condon to talk about Catholic Church inside baseball: What’s happening with Catholic Charities and USAID and the Trump administration and JD Vance? I’ll go live on Substack and the site around 1:00 p.m. We’ll send out […]

Over the weekend, the Trump administration appeared to begin the process of rolling back enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the “Magna Carta” of federal environmental law. In a filing submitted February 16, administration officials announced an interim rule titled “Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations.” NEPA […]