Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,A timeline of Trump outrages.(Hannah Yoest / Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Part of the mad genius of Donald J. Trump is that he never runs from scandals. He just creates more of them. So many more that anyone attempting to track them all risks becoming numb as a survival mechanism.A collective amnesia sets in. We ask ourselves, “Do you remember that time when Trump got impeached, said that super-racist thing, cozied up to dictators, threatened our elections, or oh, whatever that was?”Well, we at The Bulwark do. Yes, it can be hard to keep up. We...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,A timeline of Trump outrages.(Hannah Yoest / Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Part of the mad genius of Donald J. Trump is that he never runs from scandals. He just creates more of them. So many more that anyone attempting to track them all risks becoming numb as a survival mechanism.A collective amnesia sets in. We ask ourselves, “Do you remember that time when Trump got impeached, said that super-racist thing, cozied up to dictators, threatened our elections, or oh, whatever that was?”Well, we at The Bulwark do. Yes, it can be hard to keep up. We...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,On a special Father's Day episode of his YouTube show, Don Jr. sat down with his dad to smear Joe Biden.What do you get the president of the United States—the man who has everything—for Father’s Day?If you are Donald Trump Jr. the answer is actually kind of obvious: You smear Joe Biden.On Thursday night, Don Jr.’s campaign YouTube show, TRIGGERED, aired a Very Special Episode about Father’s Day. The intro rolled classy black and white still photos of the Don and his pops together in the White House over the orchestral sounds of violins, horns, and...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,On a special Father's Day episode of his YouTube show, Don Jr. sat down with his dad to smear Joe Biden.What do you get the president of the United States—the man who has everything—for Father’s Day?If you are Donald Trump Jr. the answer is actually kind of obvious: You smear Joe Biden.On Thursday night, Don Jr.’s campaign YouTube show, TRIGGERED, aired a Very Special Episode about Father’s Day. The intro rolled classy black and white still photos of the Don and his pops together in the White House over the orchestral sounds of violins, horns, and...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,How the president massacred the inspectors general, slowly and methodically.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo smiles as he speaks at a news conference at the State Department on April 29, 2020, in Washington,DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)President Trump floated a head-scratching theory recently about the spread of the novel coronavirus. “If we didn’t do any testing,” , “we would have very few cases.” Which is true in an esoteric way. We’d have plenty of sick people and dead bodies, but on...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,How the president massacred the inspectors general, slowly and methodically.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo smiles as he speaks at a news conference at the State Department on April 29, 2020, in Washington,DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)President Trump floated a head-scratching theory recently about the spread of the novel coronavirus. “If we didn’t do any testing,” , “we would have very few cases.” Which is true in an esoteric way. We’d have plenty of sick people and dead bodies, but on...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.On the weirdness of Trump using his kids to do his political dirty work.Ivanka Trump, first daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump, and her husband and senior adviser Jared Kushner wait for the beginning of a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House on May 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day President Trump met with members of the Senate GOP. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Political hatchet men are a staple of American campaigns. Richard Nixon had Chuck Colson. George H.W. Bush had Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes.Donald...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.On the weirdness of Trump using his kids to do his political dirty work.Ivanka Trump, first daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump, and her husband and senior adviser Jared Kushner wait for the beginning of a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the White House on May 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier in the day President Trump met with members of the Senate GOP. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Political hatchet men are a staple of American campaigns. Richard Nixon had Chuck Colson. George H.W. Bush had Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes.Donald...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Are we tacitly accepting a government of, by, and for the Trumps?Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, participates in a video conference with representatives of large banks and credit card companies about more financial assistance for small businesses in the Roosevelt Room at the White House April 07, 2020 in Washington, DC. In addition to the aid provided to small businesses by the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has asked lawmakers for an additional $250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program,...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Are we tacitly accepting a government of, by, and for the Trumps?Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, participates in a video conference with representatives of large banks and credit card companies about more financial assistance for small businesses in the Roosevelt Room at the White House April 07, 2020 in Washington, DC. In addition to the aid provided to small businesses by the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has asked lawmakers for an additional $250 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program,...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,The people who spent years covering up for Trump’s serial sexual impropriety have something to say to Tara Reade. We don’t need to listen to them.(GettyImages)PodcastZelensky continues to rally his country and the world, Trump planned to never leave, and…The Trump campaign released a  last Friday that said, Who is always right? Sarah? JVL? Or do you Beg to Differ? Show your support with Bulwark merchandise. Whichever side you choose, we’ll be back tomorrow, and we’ll do this all over again.…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,The people who spent years covering up for Trump’s serial sexual impropriety have something to say to Tara Reade. We don’t need to listen to them.(GettyImages)PodcastZelensky continues to rally his country and the world, Trump planned to never leave, and…The Trump campaign released a  last Friday that said, Who is always right? Sarah? JVL? Or do you Beg to Differ? Show your support with Bulwark merchandise. Whichever side you choose, we’ll be back tomorrow, and we’ll do this all over again.WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Hush opponents, highlight good works, blame anyone but Trump.Donald Trump gives a pen to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a bill signing ceremony for H.R. 748, the CARES Act in the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier on Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $2 trillion stimulus bill that lawmakers hope will battle the the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)Thinking back to the beginning of the year, the conventional wisdom was...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Hush opponents, highlight good works, blame anyone but Trump.Donald Trump gives a pen to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a bill signing ceremony for H.R. 748, the CARES Act in the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier on Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $2 trillion stimulus bill that lawmakers hope will battle the the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)Thinking back to the beginning of the year, the conventional wisdom was...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.You can’t have a reasonable debate about voting rights with people who wanted to cancel votes.A voting booth at Kings Theater on November 3, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)In the 2020 presidential election, Americans cast ballots and shattered voter turnout records. We’ve all kind of normalized that fact, but we forget that this wasn’t a foregone conclusion. Last spring and summer, the big fear among election watchers was that COVID might prevent people from going to the polls.Happily,...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.You can’t have a reasonable debate about voting rights with people who wanted to cancel votes.A voting booth at Kings Theater on November 3, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)In the 2020 presidential election, Americans cast ballots and shattered voter turnout records. We’ve all kind of normalized that fact, but we forget that this wasn’t a foregone conclusion. Last spring and summer, the big fear among election watchers was that COVID might prevent people from going to the polls.Happily,...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The suspicious backdrop for the Texas A.G.’s luridly seditious MAGA lawsuit.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton with President Donald Trump in Dallas on June 11, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty)et it be known that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not the most ethical person.Which is probably why he agreed to be co-chair of and had no qualms about filing to cancel votes in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin to overthrow Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory and give Donald Trump four more years as president.It wouldn’t be the first...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The suspicious backdrop for the Texas A.G.’s luridly seditious MAGA lawsuit.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton with President Donald Trump in Dallas on June 11, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty)et it be known that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not the most ethical person.Which is probably why he agreed to be co-chair of and had no qualms about filing to cancel votes in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin to overthrow Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory and give Donald Trump four more years as president.It wouldn’t be the first...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.Media parasites have taken control of the host.A clownfish with a Cymothoa exigua parasite functioning as its tongue. (Christian Gloor / Flickr [CC BY 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/])Cymothoa exigua is .The parasite enters a fish through its gills, attaches to its tongue, consumes the tongue, and then becomes a sort of new tongue. For the rest of the fish’s life, it swims around with the “tongue-eating louse,” as the isopod is known, operating its mouth.At first, seeing a photo of it made me recoil. Then, I realized it seemed oddly...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.Media parasites have taken control of the host.A clownfish with a Cymothoa exigua parasite functioning as its tongue. (Christian Gloor / Flickr [CC BY 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/])Cymothoa exigua is .The parasite enters a fish through its gills, attaches to its tongue, consumes the tongue, and then becomes a sort of new tongue. For the rest of the fish’s life, it swims around with the “tongue-eating louse,” as the isopod is known, operating its mouth.At first, seeing a photo of it made me recoil. Then, I realized it seemed oddly...WW…