Charlie Sykes
Co-Host of The Bulwark Podcast
Charles Sykes was a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, the host of the magazine’s Daily Standard podcast, and an NBC/MSNBC contributor. He is an outspoken critic of the Trump Administration and of what he calls the conservative “alternative reality” media.
Charlie Sykes has hosted 762 Episodes.
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Barbara Walter: Is America at Risk of a 21st Century Civil War?
January 11th, 2022 | 42 mins 59 secs
biden, bombings, bosnia, civil conflict, civil war, elections, jan. 6, milosevic, northern ireland, paramilitary, rural americans, terrorism, trump, violence, voters, white christians, yugoslavia
There have been more than 200 civil wars since WWII — and the conditions that triggered those conflicts are now present here in America. Author Barbara Walter joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Tom Nichols: Time for a Grand Coalition
January 10th, 2022 | 52 mins 6 secs
american democracy, arkansas, asa hutchinson, biden, constitution, cult, democrats, jan. 6, mandela barnes, midterms, mike rounds, mobs, progressives, ron johnson, senate, south dakota, stalinist, the squad, trump, wisconsin
Sure, former Republicans in the democracy coalition bear some responsibility for where we are today — and Democrats do too. But the only thing that matters now is who's on the side of the Constitution, and who isn't. Tom Nichols joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Tim Miller: Cruz’s Grovel
January 7th, 2022 | 53 mins 56 secs
bannon, biden, black lives matter, cheney, democracy, desantis, fbi, informant, jan 6, kenosha, maga, manchin, portland, ted cruz, tucker carlson
Ted Cruz found out what happens when you don't use the language of the MAGA woke orthodoxy. Plus, liberals grousing about Dick Cheney: Do you want a pro- democracy coalition or don’t you? Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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January 6 Was Built on Years of Lies and Propaganda
January 6th, 2022 | 36 mins 42 secs
biden, conspiracies, conspiracy, democracy, gop, impeachment, insurrection, jan 6, newt gingrich, obama, republican party, richard nixon, trump, us capitol, watergate
Conspiracy theories are at the core of Donald Trump, and the Republican Party still took him in. The surprise is that we are surprised. The New Yorker's Susan Glasser and Princeton's Julian Zelizer join Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Olivia Nuzzi: The Ambition of Dr. Oz
January 5th, 2022 | 51 mins 14 secs
abortion, david mccormick, daytime tv, democrats, diet pills, dina powell, dr. oz, four seasons landscaping, fox news, giuliani, gop, hannity, mehmet oz, oprah, pennsylvania, quackery, republicans, senate, the 1980s, trump
GOP operatives are none too pleased that Dr. Oz wants to be the next Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Democrats — who remember when the guy from The Apprentice was underestimated — are worried. Olivia Nuzzi joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Evan Osnos: Hardening the Hard Core
January 4th, 2022 | 40 mins 17 secs
authoritarian countries, biden, boomers, china, dan bongino, egypt, election 2020, facebook, fox news, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, informational warfare, jan 6, media, parler, podcasts, right-wing media, rumble, rush limbaugh, silicon valley, talk radio, tiktok, trump, youtube
What's sustaining the belief that the election was stolen from Trump? It's rage-makers like Dan Bongino, who feed existential conflict to millions of Americans daily — in between ads for gun holsters and survivalist food rations. The New Yorker's Evan Osnos joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Bill Kristol: New Year, New Chance for Democrats to Lead
January 3rd, 2022 | 45 mins 35 secs
biden, buttigieg, cdc, centrists, child tax credit, democrats, electoral count act, elites, experts, fda, gop, jan. 6, janet yellin, liz cheney, meijar, polling, republicans
Democrats say they're the party of government. Why not make it run more effectively — so the FDA isn't so ham-fisted and the CDC isn't so slow? Also, one year after Jan.6, how have our electoral guardrails still not been fixed? Bill Kristol joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Amanda Carpenter: Jan. 6 Committee Is Bringing It
December 15th, 2021 | 44 mins 46 secs
back the blue, broadband, capitol, electric cars, elon musk, fox news, infrastructure, insurrection, jeffrey clark, joy behar, jr., laura ingraham, liz cheney, mark meadows, megan mccain, police, rocket, sean hannity, space, television, the view, trump, west virginia, whoopi goldberg
Trump aggressively shut down protesters for his Bible photo-op, but let the insurrection run on for more than three hours. We've passed 'what did they know, and when did they know it?' We're now at 'when did they start planning it?' Amanda Carpenter joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Charlie Warzel: Out of Office
December 14th, 2021 | 48 mins 35 secs
40 hours, 9 to 5, alienation, american community, downsizing, employees, employers, family life, financial insecurity, gen z, great resignation, individualist mentality, layoffs, office culture, productivity, rat race, remote work, sleep, technology, work habits, work-life balance, worker power, working life
The way we work isn't working — fewer, more focused hours on the job can actually be more productive. And just because tech makes it possible to work at any time doesn't mean we should. Will the Great Resignation change our workaholic ways? Charlie Warzel joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Damon Linker: Can Journalists Save American Democracy?
December 13th, 2021 | 48 mins 6 secs
authoritarians, biden, china, chris wallace, cnn+, dana milbank, democracy, facebook, facts, foreign policy, fox news, hong kong, jan. 6, jay rosen, journalism, kkk, lies, msnbc, neo-nazis, person of the year, pew research center, populism, power point, putin, russia, science, social media, summit for democracy, taiwan, time, trump, tucker carlson, twitter, ukraine
Journalism traditionally treats the two parties as equals, but Republicans are fabricating an alternate reality and sabotaging democracy. Can reporters be "partisans for democracy" without rooting for the Democrats? The Week's Damon Linker joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast
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Tim Miller: This Is Madness
December 10th, 2021 | 53 mins 37 secs
2020, all i want for christmas, bibi, bible, black lives matter, christ christie, covid, debate, delaware, democracy, dopesick, dr. oz, dupont, elliot page, jussie smollett, kissinger, lafayette square, mark meadows, netanyahu, new york city, noncitizens, pennsylvania, photo-op, power point, protesters, racial justice, republicans, sackler, schultz, senate, theranos, trump, voting rights
Republicans are siding with Putin over NATO, top candidates are flocking to Bannon's podcast, and New Yorkers are handing the GOP a Christmas gift by giving noncitizens the right to vote. Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Bart Gellman: Stealing Democracy Right before Our Eyes
December 9th, 2021 | 41 mins 58 secs
2020, 2024, affirmative action, arizona, bart gellman, biden, black people, bosnian war, civil war, constitution, democracy, democrats, electoral count act, great replacement theory, hispanics, insurrection, jan. 6, latinos, michigan, muslims, nyfd, pennsylvania, presidential election, serbia, slobodan milošević, state legislatures, supreme court, the atlantic, the bronx, trump supporters, tucker carlson, university of chicago, violence, voters, white people, white population, wisconsin
Trump's official power as president wasn't what got him so close to toppling the 2020 election. It was his ability to convince supporters that black is white, and up is down — and they're preparing for next time. The Atlantic's Bart Gellman joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Ben Wittes: You Have to Speak Up, Merrick Garland
December 8th, 2021 | 49 mins 22 secs
2010, abortion, attorney general, biden, candidates, china, christine o'donnell, department of justice, dr. oz, editorials, edward levi, eric greitens, focus groups, fred hiatt, gerald ford, herschel walker, house, human rights, josh mandel, justice department, merrick garland, midterms, president ford, pro-choice voters, putin, republicans, roe v wade, russia, senate, supreme court, the washington post, todd aiken, ukraine
If the attorney general wants to restore norms at the Justice Department, he's got to talk about it. He's got to give speeches on democracy, voting rights, and accountability. He has to sell the message. Ben Wittes joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Jonathan Allen: Georgia Will be Ground Zero in the Midterms
December 7th, 2021 | 41 mins 34 secs
atlanta, bob dole, brian kemp, central california, churchill, dan rostenkowski, david perdue, fame, fdr, fox news, georgia electorate, georgia voters, herschel walker, house ways & means, jan. 6 committee, japan, joe biden, john eastman, kamala harris, maga, marc short, mark meadows, metro atlanta suburbs, mike pence, nunes, ossoff, pearl harbor, redistricting, social media, stacey abrams, trump, warnock, wwii
Stacey Abrams sees good odds in the Georgia's governor's race, while the Republican candidates are stuck in the amber of Trump's Big Lie. Plus: Nunes' job change shows that being on Fox is the new path to power. NBC News' Jonathan Allen joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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David Frum: Big Macs, Russia, and Afghanistan
December 6th, 2021 | 46 mins 14 secs
afghanistan, anti-vax, biden administration, big mac, bob dole, chocolate shake, comey, corey lewandowski, corruption, covid, election, filet-o-fish, hacking, healthy eating, hospital, jeff sessions, mark levin, mark meadows, mcdonald's, michael flynn, michelle obama, obesity, penn & teller, republican party, russia, russian troops, sam nunberg, sanctions, sarah palin, south carolina, starvation, taliban, trump, trumpism, ukraine, wokeism
The build-up of Russian troops on the border is alarming. Afghanistan is facing mass starvation. Meanwhile, Trump country is not only anti-vax, it's pro-obesity. Get fat to own the libs. David Frum joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Bill Kristol: It's Still the Economy, Stupid
December 3rd, 2021 | 44 mins 22 secs
abortion, build back better, dan quayle, economy, europe, governors, inflation, kamala harris, kevin mccarthy, marjorie taylor greene, midterms, nancy mace, rapid covd test, roe, ron klain, social spending bill, spending bill, symone sanders, tony evers, trump, vice president, white house chief of staff, wisconsin, working americans
It's not just The Bulwark saying the Democrats have a branding problem — Democrats are saying it too. So, cool it with the culture talk, control inflation, and as Bill Kristol has been telling the White House: Make Covid tests cheap and plentiful. Kristol joins Charlie Sykes today.