William Saletan
The Bulwark
Washington, DC, United States
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The Foolishness of Scott Adams
His argument for racial prejudice isn’t just pernicious. It’s stupid. → Read More
Some MAGA Republicans Break with Fox Over Ukraine
The network’s primetime anchors oppose Biden’s support for Ukraine. A few in the GOP have stood up to them. → Read More
Piecing Together What Trump Knew and When He Knew It
The Jan. 6th Committee report establishes a clear record of his intentional lies. → Read More
Even the Sane Republicans Are Embracing Election Deniers
Chris Sununu is just the latest to put party before country. → Read More
What It Means to Be a Republican Today
Evan McMullin’s lesson on what his former party now stands for—and what it can’t stand. → Read More
Fox News: Putin Propaganda Primetime
Here are the top 20 anti-Ukraine, pro-Russia claims and arguments that Fox viewers are hearing. → Read More
The Chaotic Politics of Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Bill
Republicans had a strategy for downplaying the issue through the midterms. So much for that. → Read More
‘Defund the FBI’—the MAGA Right’s Hypocritical New Slogan
An overnight switcheroo on ‘defunding’ or ‘abolishing’ law enforcement after the Mar-a-Lago search. → Read More
Joe Manchin’s Word Games
How he got to yes. → Read More
Roe’s End and the Phony Doctrine of ‘Potential Life’
Why you can’t trust the Supreme Court’s promise that contraception and gay marriage won’t be next. → Read More
John Eastman’s Phony “Plenary Authority” Theory
How the Trump lawyer and Claremont scholar tried to convince Republicans they could overturn the 2020 election. → Read More
If Trump Wasn't Lying, That's Worse
A delusional president is far more dangerous than a mendacious one. → Read More
What Makes a Republican a “RINO”?
When the ideology is not the orthodoxy. → Read More
The Politics of Overturning ‘Roe’ Are Bad for Republicans
The polling is conclusive and overwhelming. → Read More
The Most Damning Part of the Meadows Texts
He knew the president was lying. And he kept helping to spread the lies anyway. → Read More
Sham Elections and Shameless Lies
The crowd that casts doubt on American votes but loves Russian referenda. → Read More
Putin Wants to Break NATO. Republicans Want to Help Him.
Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which protects most of the continent against him. And in that longstanding campaign, Putin scored two significant victories this week. One was in France, where Marine Le Pen, a […] → Read More
Who’s Soft on Russia? Meet the Republican Anti-Ukraine Caucus!
After years of defending a pro-Putin American president and dismissing Russia’s interference in American elections, Republicans have returned to their old shtick: accusing Democrats of being soft on Russia. Their hypocrisy is galling, but the bigger problem is that their depiction of the two parties is backward. In polls, Republicans are more dovish on Russia […] → Read More
Nikki Haley’s Hypocrisy and Faux Outrage Over Ukraine
The wannabe GOP presidential candidate’s foolish, self-serving, and pernicious remarks about Putin’s invasion. → Read More
Lies Are the Building Blocks of Trumpian Authoritarianism
Deceit and the danger to democracy. → Read More