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I'm a writer at the Bulwark. Email: [email protected]. Twitter handle: @saletan. Question everything.
Policy Editor at The Bulwark. Host of the Mona Charen Show podcast.
Senior Editor, The Bulwark. Editor of Casual Time.
Editor, The Bulwark
Writer-at-Large, The Bulwark Host of the Bulwark Podcast
Culture Editor
Founder of The Up and Up | Studying Gen Z | Contributor at The Bulwark | Words in The New York Times, Washington Post, Free Press, POLITICO Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour
Dork journalist living in Miami. Author of We Are Eating the Earth, The Swamp & The New New Deal. Contributor to NYT Opinion, former staff at Washington Post, Time, Politico Magazine.
Senior Reporter at The Bulwark
Senior Editor, The Bulwark
Publisher
Editor at Large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Russian-Jewish-American writer. Author, Ceasefire: Why Women & Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999). Writer, The Bulwark. Newsday columnist, Reason contributing editor.
Andrew Egger is White House correspondent for The Bulwark. He previously covered politics for The Dispatch and The Weekly Standard.
Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) (@MarkHertling) was commander of U.S. Army Europe from 2011 to 2012. He also commanded 1st Armored Division in Germany and Multinational Division-North during the surge in Iraq from 2007 to 2009.
John Avlon is an award-winning journalist and author. His books include Lincoln & the Fight for Peace; Washington's Farewell and Wingnuts. He is a former CNN senior political analyst & anchor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.
I’ve covered immigration and Latino voters over the last decade. Now: Author, Huddled Masses a brand new newsletter from The Bulwark. Having a blast doing this work. Bad Bunny aficionado in my free time.
Reporter at The Bulwark
Co-Host of Prof G Markets and author of Simply Put. Subscribe for my thoughts on business + tech every Tuesday.
Professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where I created and directed our strategic studies program and served for a few years as dean. Author and writer at the Atlantic.
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