''The Bulwark'' is an American

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news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of

Bill Kristol William Kristol (; born December 23, 1952) is an American neoconservative writer. A frequent commentator on several networks including CNN, he was the founder and editor-at-large of the political magazine ''The Weekly Standard''. Kristol is now ...

and

Charlie Sykes Charles Jay Sykes (born November 11, 1954) is an American political commentator who is currently editor-in-chief of the website The Bulwark (website), ''The Bulwark''. From 1993 to 2016, Sykes hosted a Conservatism in the United States, conserva ...

. It initially launched as a

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, but it was revamped into a news and opinion site using key staffers from the recently closed ''

Weekly Standard ''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "red ...

''.

History

Following the end of publication of ''

The Weekly Standard ''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "red ...

'' in December 2018,

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Charlie Sykes said: "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

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." The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a

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conservative advocacy group led in part by ''Weekly Standard'' co-founder

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. 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. The website has frequently published pieces critical of Trump and pro-Trump elites in politics and the media. A

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hosted by Sykes was launched on December 21, 2018. Longwell said that each of the podcast's January 2021 episodes were downloaded about 100,000 times.Andrew Beaujon
The Bulwark Was Founded to Oppose Trump. Now What?
, ''The Washingtonian'' (March 3, 2021). The publication's other podcasts include ''Shield of the Republic'' cohosted by

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and

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, ''Beg to Differ'' hosted by

Mona Charen Mona Charen Parker (; born February 25, 1957) is a columnist, journalist, and political commentator in the United States. She has written three books: ''Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First'' (200 ...

, ''The Focus Group'' with Sarah Longwell'','' and ''The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood'' with

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, ''A French Village with Sarah Longwell and

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'', as well as ''The Secret Podcast,'' ''The Next Level'', and ''Across the Movie Aisle'', available only for paid subscribers. As a non-profit project, ''The Bulwark'' does not run advertising, and is supported by donations. 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. 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. In 2021, '' Washingtonian'' magazine noted 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."

Staff

The founder is Charlie Sykes who also serves as editor-at-large along with William Kristol. With Sarah Longwell serving as publisher, the staff also include editors Jonathan V. Last, Adam Keiper, Jim Swift, Martyn Wendell Jones, Benjamin Parker,

, and

. Writers include Theodore R. Johnson,

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, Cathy Young, Tim Miller, and

Amanda Carpenter Amanda Carpenter (born November 20, 1982) is an American author, political advisor, and speechwriter. She is a former senior staffer to Senators Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz. She was a columnist for ''The Washington Times'' from 2009 to 2010 and regu ...

References

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