The 93-year-old senator mused about his potential replacement.

Sources close to the White House disclosed how long they expect Zacharia to last, noting that her potential exit could leave a vacancy no one else wants.

The monkey’s paw comes for all of us.

On depravity and deprivation in Trump’s America.

Tonight’s post runs a little longer than usual.

According to Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov, last night, without warning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted the speed limits for the Starlink terminals Ukraine’s military uses, known as...

At 1:04 this afternoon, Donald Trump landed in Arizona aboard Qatari Air Force One. By 1:22, he was surrounded by bulletproof glass, preparing to tell the crowd that his followers would be okay if he ...

October 15, 2026

🚨 19 Days to the Midterms 🚨

In one week, the president cut an illegal fuel deal with Putin and may have switched off the warnings that keep Ukrainians alive, for his own political benefit.

Paxton tried to push a conspiracy theory questioning Talarico’s mental fitness, but it ended up exposing his own deficiencies.

We shouldn’t have to live like this

The midterms haven’t happened yet, but progressives and moderates are debating what the results will mean for 2028.

Essay One: The Republic, Revisited.

At 11:51 this morning, Vice President JD Vance landed at a small regional airport in Texas, exited Air Force Two, and had a six-vehicle motorcade drive him 295 feet, a trip that took just seconds, to ...

featuring a poem by Barbara Crooker

This afternoon, the President of the United States posted two videos of lions and tigers attacking humans.

Oh, and the “president” posts a video of guy being killed a tiger just because

The administration flouted a judge’s order and cut down more than 400 trees on the East Potomac Golf Course over the weekend.

Livestreamed Executions, Fantasies of Annihilation, and Violence as a Way to Change History

The main reason isn’t that he’s a megachurch pastor.

A fake story about a mental hospital told every struggling American the same thing: keep it to yourself.

🚨 21 Days to the Midterms 🚨

At 7:21 tonight, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, walked straight onto the stage in Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, and told the crowd how much he liked the “ass” of one of the me...

October 13, 2026

DOJ executed a search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence Monday

Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans.

One wave election won’t defeat Trumpism.

10/12 | The seven stories worth your time. Minus the noise.

🚨 22 Days to the Midterms 🚨

Of fuels and fools

At 12:07 this afternoon, the White House abruptly canceled all of Donald Trump’s scheduled events, right before he was scheduled to leave, and told the press that the President of the United States wo...

In his deal with Vladimir Putin for Russian diesel, Donald Trump deepens the betrayal of Ukraine in its fight for survival

October 12, 2026

The holes in this one were evident pretty quickly. Now the big question is will there be lawsuits in response?

This week I marked the end of another summer by spending as much time as I could on the water.

October 11, 2026

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, Catherine Rampell and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and c...

Inside A Dying Russian Data Center

Early data shows big wins by Democrats in 2025 will extend into November Midterms

Sen. Brian Schatz talks fundraising, oversight, and whether JD Vance has the juice to win the presidency.

How we are fighting the Trump & Cronies Top 10 corruption scandals: Publisher’s Roundup 88

At 12:41 this afternoon, a very angry Donald Trump walked straight over to the press lined up near the historic South Portico steps of the White House and, with almost no impulse control or care for w...

Marco Rubio wants to sell you a fancy passport box. Joe Gebbia built an AI chatbot. But nobody fixed the actual bureaucracy.

For Mike Rogers, it sure beats talking about Donald Trump and what he’s done to Michigan,

“Let them eat cake.”

So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.