Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Congressional caucuses Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other The Bulwark is an American conservative, anti-Trump news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes.

[1][2][3][4] It initially launched as a news aggregator but in 2019 was revamped using key staffers from the recently closed The Weekly Standard.

"[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.

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.

Longwell invites a guest to review audio clips of focus groups to learn what voters think about candidates, issues, and events.

[25][26] Co-hosted by former diplomat Eric S. Edelman and political scientist Eliot A. Cohen, Shield of the Republic is a weekly podcast on national security and foreign policy.

[29] Hosted by Sonny Bunch, The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood includes interviews with interesting people who work in the entertainment industry.