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Hawaii might have the answer.

(Photo illustration by The Bulwark / Photos: Getty)IT SOUNDS LIKE the premise of a horror film.A small ship is making its way across the South Atlantic, ferrying roughly 150 tourists to explore remote lands and glimpse rare birds, when an older man suddenly develops fever and a cough—and dies. Symptoms quickly appear in a half dozen more passengers and crew, including the ship’s doctor, and soon the death count is up to three. Testing reveals they’ve been stricken with an anima

We don’t actually want to live in a world where we don’t interact with other people.

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Ted Turner, who just graduated from this earthly academy at age 87, was a bon vivant, Playgirl's man of the year, and a public embarrassment. He made billion-dollar deals when, you know, a billion was a really big number. He sailed the seas as a champion of the yachting crowd, winning the 1977 America's Cup aboard the Courageous. He married a beautiful actress, made her do the politically incorrect Tomahawk chops to cheer his Atlanta Braves, and cycled through the ideological spectrum from Randi

A two-part framework for evaluating religious AIs.

John Avlon speaks with Rep. Seth Moulton about his insurgent Senate campaign against incumbent Ed Markey, the Democratic Party’s leadership crisis, and why he believes Democrats need a forward-looking agenda instead of running solely against Trump. Moulton weighs in on the Iran war, Pete Hegseth, China, immigration, affordability, health care, high-speed rail, and why he says Democrats must reclaim credibility on national security and the economy.Tickets for our Bulwark Live shows in San D

George Retes woke up on July 10, 2025, hoping the day would change his life for the better. Retes, an Army veteran, worked as a security contractor for a legal cannabis farm in Ventura County, California. After seven months on the graveyard shift, working from midnight to 8 a.m., Retes was eager to move to a daytime schedule and spend more waking hours with his family. "I do everything for my kids," says the 25-year-old father. "That's what it's all for." When he finally got the new schedule, he

The exact wrong answer to a Republican Party that’s flirting with fascism is a man who chose to put vile Nazi imagery on his own body.

Vintage American clothing still commands high prices, but the physical manifestations of U.S. empire have decayed. No one knows what’s next.

“Why are some things special?” This Mother’s Day, we revisit a 3-year-old’s endless curiosity and a mother’s joy of seeing the world through her child’s eyes.

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Judaism has confronted questions of religious authority before.

We are entering a more perilous era where China no longer sees U.S. strength as something to fear.

Politics The Republican Playbook for Saving the American Rancher Tariffs and antitrust are yin and yang. Ranchers need both for a functional market. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) On Monday, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and the manufacturing policy director Pe

Foreign Affairs Zelensky and Ukraine Are in a World of Trouble Maybe the biggest threat to the beleaguered country comes from inside. (paparazzza/Shutterstock) A world of trouble is dawning for Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. And not just because they are losing the war, which they are. Despite pro-Ukraine governments and media in West

Politics A Durable Coalition: Social Conservatives and Antiwar Voters The alliance is not only ideologically congenial, but electorally valuable. (Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images) The administration is not popular. After being elected on a platform of avoiding unnecessary wars, President Donald Trump and the GOP made the decision to

Airlines have managed to avoid greater turbulence because jet fuel hasn’t actually run short — yet

Both extremes now have an affinity for cancel culture and conspiracy theories

The esteemed editor of this journal, Paul Kengor, wrote a fitting R.I.P. for Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul who died recently at the age of 87. He was a man of many contradictions, as Kengor pointed out — “an innovator, an entrepreneur, a free-market pioneer,” a southerner, who called himself a socialist, and an atheist to boot who was apparently downright hostile to Christianity. Kengor rightly credits Turner for creating Turner Classic Movies (TCM), but he omitted one more worthwhile