The Bulwark Podcast
1) John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started
Only six months ago, the wheels felt like they were coming off of America, and our democracy experiment. But since the Epstein case broke wide open, the wheels started to come off Trump instead. And h...Show More
2) Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files
The DOJ is releasing random Epstein documents to distract the public, while also intentionally covering the faces of men in images. It's also pulling docs that reveal Trump's name. Epstein's victims t...Show More
3) Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot
After a campaign built on the promise that Trump was going to look out for his voters, he started his administration getting sidetracked by DOGE and Musk's phony ideas about saving money. After that p...Show More
4) Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment
The year started with America's tech overlords kissing the ring at Trump's inauguration, and it's ending with the public fed up with the ostentatiously richâand more distrustful of Silicon Valley than...Show More
5) Tom Nichols: The Buzz Has Worn Off
Six months ago, MAGA world was strutting around with their chests puffed out. But now, many of them are having a blue Christmas over the infighting, the economy, the DOJ's inability to deliver revenge...Show More
6) Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up
On the Epstein matter, the current DOJ is not just putting its thumb on the scale for Trump. It's his defense team. Make no mistake: The top two officials at the Justice Department are executing Trump...Show More
7) David Frum: Trump and Epstein Were Best Friends
Of all the images of Trump, the only times he seemed to be authentically smiling in the presence of another person was when he was with Jeffrey Epstein. The two of them had the same interests, and oth...Show More
8) Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon
Trump's power of persuasion is failing him on the affordability issue. He even broke MAGA creed on live TV by calling on Americans to trust the word of foreign leadersâwho supposedly claim the U.S. ec...Show More
9) Catherine Rampell and Michael Steinberger: Trump Wants to Cook the Books
POTUS is firing or censoring the statisticians who collect data on health and climate, as well as the kind of experts who could verify his lofty claims of an A++++ economy. And while Vance says that T...Show More
Catherine Rampell and Michael Steinberger: Trump Wants to Cook the Books
1:04:59 | Dec 17th, 2025
10) Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
The people running the Republican grassroots are nativist populists, and itâs a space where opposition to Israel thrives, along with a heaping serving of antisemitism. Candaceâs wild theories about th...Show More
Will Sommer: Conspiracy Theorists Are Behind the Wheel in the Republican Party
1:03:30 | Dec 16th, 2025