The Bulwark

7 min read 2023-05-31 16:30:26

Cormac McCarthy and the World’s Horrible Unknowability

For many years, fans and admirers of the writer Cormac McCarthy wondered if he would ever publish another novel. He was getting on in years (he’s

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Throughout the nation, states with Republican governors and GOP-led legislatures are tapping deep into the political zeitgeist and availing

6 min read 2023-05-26 16:30:13

In a long-awaited decision yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency will no longer be able to regulate some bodies

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The praise just keeps pouring in for Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old white ex-Marine charged with second-degree manslaughter for choking to death a

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Late last week, amid the on-again/off-again White House negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling, Donald Trump

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Martin Amis, the great British writer who died on May 19 at his home in Florida, once wrote a novel called Time’s Arrow, the premise of which is

3 min read 2023-05-18 16:30:34

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko is the only European leader to have held power longer than Vladimir Putin—but perhaps not for much longer.

8 min read 2023-05-17 16:30:21

Moments after the press conference, as we stood just outside the Wisconsin state assembly in the state capitol, lawmaker Sylvia Ortiz-Velez shared

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In recent years, we have become used to a certain level of political disinformation on social media, more or less accepting it as the cost of

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The Biden administration has so far managed to convince America’s allies to feed Ukraine spoonfuls of weaponry—enough not to lose, but not enough

6 min read 2023-05-15 16:30:45

As I write, some evidence suggests that the first ripples of the long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive are finally in motion. For months, Russian

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[On the May 12, 2023 episode of The Bulwark’s “Beg to Differ” podcast, panelist Linda Chavez discussed the lifting of pandemic-era border and

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In 2012, the Electronic Information Registration Center, or ERIC, was created with backing from the Pew Charitable Trust. Seven states were original

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[Editor’s note: Watch Not My Party every week on Snapchat.] Tim Miller: Now Biden has a challenger with a famous name. But is it actually just a

8 min read 2023-05-13 03:31:06

In the run-up to the Victory Day parade on Red Square on May 9, the Russian government was clearly nervous about the possibility of a Ukrainian drone