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Trump and Vance sat for separate interviews in different universes.
Sarah and JVL are back apart, as God intended. And there’s lots happening:
A recording from The Bulwark's live video
Sarah Longwell went live with her cohost Ben Parker for an AMA about her new book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time.
(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: HBO, AMC, FX, Shutterstock)
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The writers behind this newsletter.
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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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