Episodios

  • Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?

    Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?
    Oct 31 2025
    It’s hard to find a better example of seizing the means of production than our government seizing an equity stake in a company—which Trump keeps doing over and over again. And what do the diehard Republican capitalists have to say about all this socializing of the private sector? Nothing, of course. But they definitely were up in arms over Bill Kristol saying he’d probably vote for Mamdani if he still lived in NYC, and that voting for Cuomo was ridiculous. Plus, the crypto-based bribery of Trump and his family is flourishing, SNAP cuts and Head Start closures will have a big impact on rural areas, businesses have been trying to find ways to lower their tariff burden since Trump won last November, and the potential ties between recent layoffs and the AI arms race.

    The Bulwark’s Catherine Rampell joins Tim Miller for the Halloween weekend pod.
    show notes

    • Tim's playlist

    • Tim's Halloween playlist
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  • Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurt Farmers

    Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurt Farmers
    Oct 30 2025
    President Trump meets with Xi Jinping and agrees to an embarrassingly one-sided trade deal, as the “China Hawks” in the administration cower. Meantime, the government shutdown moves to a more painful phase, with funding for SNAP expiring on Nov. 1. Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp joins Tim to discuss how the chaos from Trump’s trade wars has already hurt farmers, how Democrats should play their next moves on the shutdown, and her surprising support for Mamdani/Platner style candidates.

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    • The One Country Project’s Hot Dish Podcast
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    56 m
  • Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll

    Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll
    Oct 29 2025
    From the jump, the administration has been all about the memes, owning the libs, and pissing people off. But Abby says she wants Trump’s supporters to have a chance to share their points of view on her show—and be challenged in real time. Meanwhile, during the weirdest shutdown ever, Republicans are at risk on SNAP and Obamacare subsidies. And policing the Caribbean and the Pacific to commit summary executions is not America First. Plus, the roots of Bernie Sanders’s populist campaigns were planted by Jesse Jackson’s runs for the presidency in ‘84 and ‘88. But Trump too also echoes Jackson as a political figure—through their use of celebrity, personality, and similar outsider populist messaging.

    Abby Phillip joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Abby's book, "A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power"

    • CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip

    • Tim and Bill on Trump creepiest propaganda yet
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    54 m
  • Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?

    Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?
    Oct 28 2025
    While the inhumane and aggressive tactics unfolding in Chicago are repelling many Americans, they are having the opposite effect among Trump's top aides. The Kristi Noem clique wants more— much more— of the Border Patrol's "Midway Blitz" around the country, and they're busy purging local ICE leadership in a number of cities in an attempt to dramatically ramp up the pace of deportations. Meanwhile, Trump keeps talking like he's all for regime change in Venezuela. Plus, how conspiracy and our phones helped fuel the rise of global populism, why the left and right yearn for a struggle in an age of peace and prosperity, and the modern effort to reclaim the word 'liberal.'

    Frank Fukuyama and Sam Stein join Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    • Adrian's recent reporting from Chicago
    • Isaac Chotiner's interview with Karine Jean-Pierre
    • Frank on Substack
    • Frank's "Liberalism and Its Discontents" and his "The End of History and the Last Man"
    • "Termination Shock," referenced by Frank
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    1 h y 23 m
  • Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum

    Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum
    Oct 27 2025
    Trump was so embarrassed by Canada using Reagan’s warnings about tariffs that he had a little hissy fit and decided to punish Americans for buying Canadian goods. And by the way, stuffed shirt Scott Bessent: Real American soybean farmers are being hurt by tariffs while you bail out Argentina and pretend that your dainty hands are tilling the soil on the farmland you bought as an investment. Meanwhile, the White House isn’t even pretending that it’s going after corrupt moneyed interests, as the Trump family rolls in dough from the most entrenched swampy types in DC. Plus, Dems get pressure on the shutdown and Trump weighs in on the VP gimmick for 2028.

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
    show notes

    • Scott Bessent saying he's a soybean farmer

    • Monday's "Morning Shots"

    • For a limited time only, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/THEBULWARK.
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    51 m
  • Ryan Holiday: Life Is Too Short to Be a Bootlicker

    Ryan Holiday: Life Is Too Short to Be a Bootlicker
    Oct 24 2025
    Members of the administration, like Stephen Miller, who spend hours every day kissing Trump’s ass look so pathetic—but since the time of the ancients, courtiers have gone to great lengths to degrade themselves before the vain and vindictive. And one lesson for the ages is to not compromise with an extortionist: it will only lead to more extortion and more pressure because the extortionist wants everything. Meanwhile, Elon’s brain is broken, Peter Thiel spends too much time at dinner parties, Trump’s media diet allows no time for presidential reflection, and authoritarians can be seductive. Plus, Tim sees the redistricting fight looking better for Democrats, and argues that the best way to shut down the talk of a decrepit Trump running in ‘28 is to make sure the Dems win the House in 2026.

    Ryan Holiday joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

    show notes

    • Ryan's new book, "Wisdom Takes Work"
    • Ryan's book, "Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue"
    • Tim and JVL's interview with Ryan about being a dad
    • The Daily Stoic Podcast
    • Tim's playlist
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    1 h y 8 m
  • Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand

    Ben Wittes and Anna Bower: Trump's Reparations Demand
    Oct 23 2025
    The convicted felon was legitimately prosecuted for hoarding classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. And he was justifiably investigated over the numerous contacts he and his associates had with Russian nationals during 2016. But Trump feels he has endured so much pain and suffering from all the probing that he's owed a quarter of a billion dollars in damages from hard-working American taxpayers. Meanwhile, his hired tool of revenge, Lindsey Halligan, is hard at work pursuing really weak cases against Comey and Tish James when she's not sending mean girl texts.

    Lawfare's Anna Bower and Ben Wittes join Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Anna on her Signal chat with Lindsey Halligan
    • Lawfare's Molly Roberts on the weak case against James
    • Ben's Substack
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    46 m
  • Jon Favreau: Foundational Freedoms

    Jon Favreau: Foundational Freedoms
    Oct 22 2025
    One of the promises of this country has been the freedom to walk down the street without being harassed by the government. But even being an American citizen isn't stopping ICE agents from grabbing people with passports or IDs—and detaining them for hours. At the same time, many of the thugs and sadists who want to do the grabbing and snatching are pathetically failing basic physical fitness tests. Plus, JD is painfully unfunny, Republicans calling Democrats 'terrorists' has real world consequences, and Dems need more normal people running for office—but they should save the wild card candidates for long shot races.

    Jon Favreau joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Pod Save America interview with Graham Platner
    • The Atlantic on "ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits"
    • Tickets for Crooked Con in DC in November
    • Get $35 off your first box of wild-caught, sustainable seafood—delivered right to your door. Go to: https://www.wildalaskan.com/BULWARK.
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    1 h y 7 m