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Command Post: Saudi Arabia’s Oil Pipeline Hit With Multiple Attacks
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...
Mehdi Hasan: 9/11's Fallout 25 Years Later
Rudy Giuliani and others who purport to represent the families of 9/11 victims ginned up the idea that it would be wrong for the Muslim mayor of NYC to attend Friday's memorial at ground zero.
Rudy Giuliani and others who purport to repres...
It’s Getting Worse
From the Republican midterm convention to Iran, things are falling apart.
Bill Kristol sat in for Sarah today and JVL wore a little treat for everyone to mark the occasion. In case you’re not watching the video, the surprise is here. It’s...
Receipts Live: Diesel Prices Soar to $6 a Gallon, Inflation Outpaces Wages
A recording from The Bulwark's live video
Catherine Rampell and JVL break down the latest inflation numbers and why the Trump administration is desperately trying to convince Americans that rising prices are actually good news. Inflation h...
Sometimes Terrorism Works
The hardest lesson of 9/11.
- The Anniversary
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Writer-at-Large, The Bulwark Host of the Bulwark Podcast
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Editor at Large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Jonathan Marks, a professor of politics at Ursinus College, is the author of Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education
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.
Jill Lawrence, an opinion writer and author of "The Art of the Political Deal," is a former politics editor, reporter and columnist at USA Today, National Journal, the Associated Press and 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.
Sarah Longwell stole my car one time
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.
Catherine Rampell is economics editor at The Bulwark and an anchor at MS NOW (fmrly MSNBC). She specializes in econ, politics, public policy, immigration. Previously at WaPo, NYT, CNN, PBS NewsHour.
Todd Phillips is a consultant and served most recently as a law professor at Georgia State University. His writing focuses on financial regulation and administrative law, and has published in the Stanford Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation.
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