The Bulwark (website)

News and opinion website

The Bulwark

Type of site

| News and opinion website
Available in| English
Owner| Defending Democracy Together Institute
Editor| Jonathan V. Last
URL| thebulwark.com
Launched| December 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12)
Current status| Online
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Literature

* The Federalist Papers (1788)
* Democracy in America (1835–1840)
* Notes on Democracy (1926)
* I'll Take My Stand (1930)
* Our Enemy, the State (1935)
* The Managerial Revolution (1941)
* Ideas Have Consequences (1948)
* God and Man at Yale (1951)
* The Conservative Mind (1953)
* The Conscience of a Conservative (1960)
* A Choice Not an Echo (1964)
* Losing Ground (1984)
* A Conflict of Visions (1987)
* The Closing of the American Mind (1987)
* The Bell Curve (1994)
* The Revolt of the Elites (1995)
* The Death of the West (2001)
* The Blank Slate (2002)
* Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005)
* Hillbilly Elegy (2017)
* The Benedict Option (2017)
* Why Liberalism Failed (2018)

Concerns

* Abortion
* Cancel Culture
* Culture war
* Multiculturalism
* "Disparate impact" controversy
* CRT controversy
* DEI controversy
* Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
* Higher ed. bubble
* Go woke, go broke
* ESG
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* Homeschooling
* Immigration reduction
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* Sub-replacement fertility
* Unitary executive

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* American Party
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* Conservative Party of New York State
* Constitution Party
* Republican Party

Defunct

* Anti-Masonic Party
* Constitutional Union Party
* Democratic Party (historically, factions)
* Boll weevils
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* Conservative Democrats
* Dixiecrats
* Reagan Democrats
* Southern Democrats
* Rhode Island Suffrage Party
* Federalist Party
* National Republican Party
* Native American Party
* Whig Party

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* Acton Institute
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* Center for the National Interest
* Claremont Institute
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* FRI
* Gatestone Institute
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* Tax Foundation
* Witherspoon Institute

Media

Newspapers

* Chicago Tribune
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* The Jewish Voice
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* The Wall Street Journal (editorial board)
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Journals

* American Affairs
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* The American Spectator
* American Thinker
* City Journal
* Claremont Review of Books
* Commentary
* Compact
* Chronicles
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* First Things
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* The New Criterion
* Policy Review (defunct)
* Public Discourse
* Southern Partisan
* Spectator USA
* Tablet
* Taki's Magazine
* Telos
* Washington Examiner
* The Weekly Standard (defunct)

TV channels

* CBN
* Fox Business
* Fox News
* Newsmax TV
* One America News Network
* VOZ

Websites

* Babylon Bee
* Breitbart News
* The Bulwark
* Campus Reform
* The Center Square
* Conservative Review
* Daily Caller
* Daily Signal
* Daily Wire
* Discover the Networks
* The Federalist
* FrontPage Magazine
* Front Porch Republic
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* The Washington Free Beacon
* The Western Journal
* WorldNetDaily

Other

* Blaze Media
* Encounter Books
* Evie Magazine
* The First
* Imprimis
* The Political Cesspool
* Passage Publishing
* PragerU
* RealClearPolitics
* Red Scare
* Regnery Publishing
* RSBN
* The Rubin Report
* Sinclair Broadcast Group

Other organizations

Economics

* ATR
* Club for Growth
* FreedomWorks (defunct)
* NFIB
* NTU
* Tea Party Patriots
* USCC

Gun rights

* GOA
* NAGR
* NRA
* Second Amendment Caucus

Identity politics

* ACT!
* CWA
* Council of Conservative Citizens
* GAG
* IWF
* LCR
* Moms for Liberty

Nativist

* CIS
* FAIR
* Immigration Restriction League
* NumbersUSA
* Oath Keepers
* Three Percenters

Religion

* ADF
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* Chalcedon Foundation
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* Christian Voice
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* Foundation for Moral Law
* Liberty Counsel
* Moral Majority (defunct)
* NOM
* NRLC
* PTMC
* Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
* Thomas More Law Center

Watchdog groups

* AIM
* Econ Journal Watch
* Franklin News Foundation
* JW
* MRC
* O'Keefe Media Group
* Project Veritas (defunct)

Youth/student groups

* NJC
* TPUSA
* Young Americans for Freedom
* Young America's Foundation
* YAL

Miscellaneous

* The 85 Fund
* AHI
* ACU
* Bradley Foundation
* TCC
* CNP
* CPAC
* Freedom Caucus
* Hillsdale College
* IFF
* JBS
* John M. Olin Foundation
* Liberty Fund
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* NAS
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* Regent University
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Movements

* Asian and Pacific Islander
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* in Texas
* Trumpism
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The Bulwark is an American never-Trump and conservative news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes.[1][2][3][4] It initially launched as a news aggregator but was revamped using key staffers from the recently closed The Weekly Standard.[5]

## History

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Following the end of publication of The Weekly Standard in December 2018,[6] editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said that "the murder of the Standard made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism."[7] The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501(c)(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by The Weekly Standard co-founder Bill Kristol.[8] Several former editors and writers of The Weekly Standard soon joined the staff and within weeks of launch began publishing original news and opinion pieces.[5] The website has frequently published pieces critical of Donald Trump and of pro-Trump elites in politics and the media.[1]

A podcast hosted by Sykes was launched on December 21, 2018.[9] Longwell said that each of the podcast's January 2021 episodes were downloaded about 100,000 times.[10] The publication's other podcasts include Shield of the Republic cohosted by Eric Edelman and Eliot Cohen, Beg to Differ hosted by Mona Charen, The Focus Group with Sarah Longwell, and The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with Sonny Bunch, A French Village with Sarah Longwell and Benjamin Wittes, as well as The Secret Podcast, The Next Level, and Across the Movie Aisle, available only for paid subscribers.[11]

As a non-profit project, The Bulwark does not run advertising, and is supported by donations.[10] By January 2019, approximately $1 million had already been raised for the site, which was said to be adequate to keep the site running for one year.[5] In 2021, The Bulwark launched Bulwark+, a program that provides paid subscribers with "exclusive podcasts, newsletters, and live-streams" for about $100 a year; within a few months, the website reported roughly 16,000 subscribers.[10]

In 2021, Washingtonian magazine observed that content on The Bulwark is primarily geared toward readers seeking "serious coverage of events through a center-right filter" but that its editors have sought to attract centrist Democratic readers who may be "uncomfortable with the excesses of the progressive left".[10]

In 2024, Sarah Longwell, Bill Kristol and Tim Miller sent the names of prominent Republicans to the Democratic campaign[12] and in October Will Saletan wrote that Trump was running an "openly fascist campaign".[13]

## Staff

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The founder is Charlie Sykes, who also serves as editor-at-large along with Bill Kristol. With Sarah Longwell serving as publisher, the staff also include editors Jonathan V. Last, Adam Keiper, Jim Swift, Martyn Wendell Jones, Benjamin Parker, Sonny Bunch, Mona Charen, and Sam Stein.[14] Writers include Tim Miller, Theodore R. Johnson, Will Saletan, Cathy Young, and Amanda Carpenter.[15]

## See also

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* List of Republicans who oppose the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign

## References

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1. ^ a b Coppins, McKay (February 22, 2019). "Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on October 19, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2020. "The Bulwark, the anti–Donald Trump conservative news site"
2. ^ Mike DeBonis; Jeremy Barr (February 28, 2021). "Rewriting January 6th: Republicans push false and misleading accounts of Capitol riot". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 3, 2021. Retrieved March 23, 2021. "the Bulwark, an anti-Trump conservative website"
3. ^ Darcy, Oliver (January 4, 2019). "Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark". CNN. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
4. ^ Morrison, Patt (October 9, 2019). "How Never Trumpers can get the GOP to stand up for constitutional conservatism again". Los Angeles Times (editorial). Archived from the original on March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
5. ^ a b c Darcy, Oliver (January 4, 2019). "Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump". CNN Business. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
6. ^ Farhi, Paul (December 14, 2018). "The Weekly Standard, influential conservative magazine, will shutter". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
7. ^ Rubin, Jennifer (January 8, 2019). "A bulwark against Trump and Trumpism". The Washington Post (editorial). Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
8. ^ "Defending Democracy Together Institute (DDTI)". InfluenceWatch. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
9. ^ "The Bulwark Podcast". Defending Democracy Together Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
10. ^ a b c d Andrew Beaujon, The Bulwark Was Founded to Oppose Trump. Now What? Archived August 29, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, The Washingtonian (March 3, 2021).
11. ^ "Podcasts". The Bulwark. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
12. ^ Pager, Tyler (September 30, 2024). "Harris team quietly courts big-name GOP endorsements". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
13. ^ Saletan, Will (October 21, 2024). "Let's Be Honest, Trump's Running As a Fascist". The Bulwark. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
14. ^ {{cite web | url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-bulwark-builds-its-newsroom-with-sam-stein-hire,250509 | title=The Bulwark builds its newsroom with Sam Stein hire | access-date=December 5, 2024
15. ^ "About Us". Archived from the original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022.

## External links

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* Official website

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Never Trump movement

Groups|

* 43 Alumni for America
* The Bulwark
* Delegates Unbound
* Free the Delegates
* The Lincoln Project
* TV series
* MeidasTouch
* Our Principles PAC
* Republican Accountability Project
* Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform
* Republicans for the Rule of Law
* Right Side PAC
* Vote Common Good

Opposition to
presidential campaigns|

* Republicans opposition in the 2016 campaign
* Mitt Romney's 2016 speech
* Republicans opposition in the 2020 campaign
* Mark Sanford presidential campaign
* Joe Walsh presidential campaign
* Bill Weld presidential campaign
* Republicans opposition in the 2024 campaign

Other 2016 efforts|

* Evan McMullin 2016 presidential campaign
* Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election
* Chiafalo v. Washington

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