The Bulwark (website)

The Bulwark is an American conservative news and opinion website founded by conservative commentators Charlie Sykes and Bill Kristol.[1][2] Its publisher is Sarah Longwell.[3] While it launched as a news aggregator, it was revamped into a news and opinion site using key digital staffers from the defunct magazine The Weekly Standard.[4]

The Bulwark
Type of site
News and opinion website
Available inEnglish
EditorCharlie Sykes, Bill Kristol
URLthebulwark.com
LaunchedDecember 2018 (2018-12)
Current statusOnline

History

Following the end of publication of The Weekly Standard in December 2018,[5] editor-in-chief 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 Trumpism."[6] 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 Weekly Standard co-founder William Kristol,[7] who was a prominent voice pushing for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.[8][9] 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. CNN reported in January 2019 that approximately $1 million had already been raised for the site, which was said to be adequate to keep the site running for one year but that additional funding was being sought.[4]

A podcast hosted by Sykes and executive editor Jonathan V. Last was launched on December 21, 2018.[10]

See also

References
  1. Coppins, McKay (2019-02-22). "Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  2. Darcy, Oliver; Business, CNN (2019-01-04). "Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark". CNN. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  3. Morrison, Patt (October 9, 2019). "How Never Trumpers can get the GOP to stand up for constitutional conservatism again". Los Angeles Times (editorial). Archived from the original on March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  4. Darcy, Oliver (January 4, 2019). "Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump". CNN Business. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  5. Farhi, Paul (December 14, 2018). "The Weekly Standard, influential conservative magazine, will shutter". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 20, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  6. Rubin, Jennifer (January 8, 2019). "A bulwark against Trump and Trumpism". The Washington Post (editorial). Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  7. "Defending Democracy Together Institute (DDTI)". InfluenceWatch. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  8. Kagan, Robert; Kristol, William (January 21, 2002). "What to Do About Iraq". Washington Examiner (op-ed). Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  9. Kristol, William (May 20, 2015). "William Kristol: We were right to fight in Iraq". USA Today (op-ed). Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2019. We were right to invade Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein...
  10. "The Bulwark Podcast". Defending Democracy Together Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019.


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