1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (153+ words) The world’s oil supply is under attack once again. Ben Parker and Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) break down the latest escalation across the Middle East, including an attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, a critical alternative route designed to…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (388+ words) John Ratcliffe has mired the agency in politics—and possible illegality. By that standard, John Ratcliffe is failing. Ratcliffe’s politicization, however, goes far beyond selective and misleading declassification. On his watch, a serving CIA officer was publicly named and pushed…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (122+ words) A recording from The Bulwark’s live video Links:Mark Hertling: “A Letter to Myself on 9/11” THE ADVANTAGE—AND PERHAPS THE BURDEN—of looking back across a quarter century is knowing how little we understood then about how profoundly those few…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (113+ words) The Bulwark Most Trump scandals don’t bother his voters. These are the exceptions. The answer is almost always the same: They don’t. Generally speaking, voters who aren’t highly engaged news consumers don’t track Trump’s many scandals. There are like ten…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (84+ words) A recording from The Bulwark’s live video Mark Hertling and Ben Parker react live to Trump dismissing the mounting costs of the Iran war as “small potatoes.” Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1390+ words) JD Vance declares ‘Mission Accomplished’ This summer’s jobs reports have mostly been clunkers, but this morning we got a more encouraging one. The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, while unemployment held steady at 4.1 percent and the labor force…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (432+ words) Anatomy of an oil heist. Hey fam: Sarah and I are doing a show in the Big Room at the 92nd Street Y next Tuesday. There are like ninety tickets left and I desperately want to sell out the space. I’m…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (125+ words) A recording from The Bulwark’s live video The USS Abraham Lincoln finally returns to port after nearly 300 days at sea—and the visible wear and tear is a stark reminder of the strain being placed on the U.S. military....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (432+ words) After six months of war, our national security is at risk. THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED SUNDAY that several of America’s senior military commanders have warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that continuing the current pace and scale of operations against Iran…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (224+ words) Trump’s war is far from over, top military leaders are warning Hegseth that prolonged ops in the region are unsustainable, and Americans have been financing Pentagon propagandists who’ve been secretly collecting taxpayer money to try to convince us that things…...