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Who Gets to Be Taken Seriously?
What Ye and Sarah Longwell reveal about a political culture losing its footing.
14 hrs ago
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The Difference Between Reaction and Memory
Why today’s outrage may become tomorrow’s justification.
Mar 31
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The Protest Was Real And So Was the Misdiagnosis
A decade of denial doesn’t get fixed by a single day of protest.
Mar 30
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Bad Polls Don’t Mean a Redeemed Nation
Mar 28
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Reality Checking The Bulwark
Jan 31
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Should Black Voters Renegotiate With Democrats?
Mar 4
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Does it feel like America hates its women?
Dec 4, 2025
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SNAP, Crackle, Gone
Oct 29, 2025
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Abolish ICE
Jan 15
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Bad Polls Don’t Mean a Redeemed Nation
A few encouraging numbers can’t undo a decade of normalized bigotry, institutional failure, and political avoidance.
Mar 28
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The Myth of the Adult in the Room
Why responsibility not restraint is what democracy actually demands.
Mar 24
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Soft Power, Hard Empire
What happens when legitimacy fails but coercion remains?
Mar 17
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The Old Fire Behind Trump
Why treating the Iran war as automatic political damage misunderstands the deeper American appetite for force.
Mar 12
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They Don’t Oppose the Logic.
They Oppose the Sloppiness.
Mar 10
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Trump’s First Term Controlled the Narrative. His Second Commands the Machine.
From Chaos to Command: Trump’s Darker Second Term
Mar 6
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Should Black Voters Renegotiate With Democrats?
Jasmine Crockett and Democratic Gatekeeping
Mar 4
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The Bulwark’s Anti-Trump Reflex
Why opposing Trump isn’t the same as understanding how he consolidates power.
Mar 3
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Hasan Piker and Fissures in the Democratic Coalition
Sarah Longwell gets unwelcome exposure after attacking Hasan Piker.
Apr 6
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Can an American Political Party Prioritize Both The "White" and "Black" Vote
Watch now | On today's news topics, the state of the Democratic Party, and our expanding dystopia.
Apr 1
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The Story That Keeps Trumpism Alive
Trump Didn’t Kill Conservatism. He Revealed It.
Mar 25
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Reality Checking the Bulwark - Episode 5
The limits of Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell's foreign policy vision.
Mar 22
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Ask Me Anything with Steward Beckham
A recording from Steward Beckham's live video
Mar 20
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Stew'd Over
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Who Gets to Be Taken Seriously?
What Ye and Sarah Longwell reveal about a political culture losing its footing.
14 hrs ago
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Frum, Miller, and the Question of Emphasis
In an age of corruption and asymmetry.
Feb 26
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Scoreboard Democracy, Part II
Anticipating myopic State of the Union coverage and punditry.
Feb 24
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American Inertia, Part II
When Identity Cohesion Outruns Policy Failure
Feb 23
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American Inertia
Why Structural Weakness, Not Activist Excess, Keeps Repeating the Crisis
Feb 19
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Black America in a Jar
On scrutiny, silence-as-unity, and the politics of being watched.
Jan 16
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Does it feel like America hates its women?
BONUS: You should watch All Her Fault on Peacock.
Dec 4, 2025
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Quiet, Piggie...and Other Tales of Centrist Delusion
BONUS: A House of Dynamite movie reflections.
Nov 21, 2025
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Hopium, Myth, and the Monster We Know
Bonus: 30 for 30, American Son, and Trump's America
Nov 20, 2025
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You Think Ya Betta Than Me?!
On Expertise, Resentment, and Who Gets to Be Right.
Aug 29, 2025
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The 5th Anniversary of January 6th
And the way lynch culture can be felt in this moment.
Jan 6
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America’s First RINO Hunt (Empire of Liberty #12)
The playbook hasn’t changed, only the hashtags have.
Sep 25, 2025
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From NATO to Nature (50 Facts #1)
Where America Truly Lost Its Grip
Sep 23, 2025
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The Empire of Debt and Liberty (Empire of Liberty #11)
From colonies to companies to states and still paying the bill.
Sep 9, 2025
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The Mouse Haunts (The Mouse That Roared #2)
But I still love it.
Jun 5, 2025
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