The Bulwark (website)

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]

As a non-profit project, The Bulwark does not run advertising, and is supported by donations.^[9] 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.^[9] In February 2025, The Bulwark claimed to have 76,000 paid subscribers to its newsletter, and was adding hundreds of new subscribers every few days.^[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".^[9]

In 2024, Sarah Longwell, Bill Kristol and Tim Miller sent the names of prominent Republicans to the Democratic campaign^[11] and in October Will Saletan wrote that Trump was running an "openly fascist campaign".^[12]

Sarah Longwell is the publisher of The Bulwark, and also co-hosts several podcasts for the publication. Jonathan V. Last is the editor. The staff and writers also includes editors William Kristol, Adam Keiper, Jim Swift, Martyn Wendell Jones, Benjamin Parker, Sonny Bunch, Mona Charen, Sam Stein, Tim Miller, Will Saletan, Cathy Young, Joe Perticone, Adrian Carrasquillo, and Andrew Egger.^[13][14]

The Bulwark produces and distributes several podcasts, which cover news, political analysis, culture, and foreign affairs.^[15] They also publish weekly private podcasts.^[16]

• List of Republicans who opposed the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign