Most people, even young people, don't rank Gaza or the whole Israel-Palestine issue very high in importance. And the polling data simply doesn't show that Biden's support for Israel has eroded his base's support for him. thebulwark.com/p/israel-gaza-…

'More precise operations will help constrict the noose around Hamas’ neck until they either give up the hostages or are killed themselves. That’s the option on the table. And that option remains with or without America’s 'offensive weapons.'' thebulwark.com/p/biden-hasnt-…

How Trumpism infected both conservative Catholicism and official libertarianism: thebulwark.com/p/tradwives-tr…

'I might be the only person at The Bulwark who has written about the transit theory of induced demand multiple times.' Don't let that stop you. An off-the-news Triad today from Jonathan V. Last: thebulwark.com/p/urbanism-vs-…

'In all likelihood, Necheles’s frontal attacks on Daniels as a complete fabulist were what Trump commanded.' Trump is putting his own anxious personal satisfaction over a strong legal defense. thebulwark.com/p/trumps-storm…

'There are interesting ideas nestled within the film. Consider the role of Caesar: Like a combination of Christ and Augustus, he is, generations later, a near-mythical elder, one who many tribes have forgotten and others have twisted to their own needs.' thebulwark.com/p/kingdom-of-t…

'While Gaza is a negative issue for Biden, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an electoral liability.' thebulwark.com/p/israel-gaza-…

'The tragedy, in addition to enabling Trump to potentially get away with staging an insurrection and violating the Espionage Act, is the creeping stain that these rulings are having on the legitimacy of the federal judiciary itself.' thebulwark.com/p/justice-dela…

So it turns out the tradwives aren't alright thebulwark.com/p/tradwives-tr…

'Trump’s comparison of his daughter to an adult film actress he was trying to have sex with might clank against the jury’s memory of Blanche’s opening statement. His pitch was that Trump was a husband and father 'just like you and me.'' Dennis Aftergut: thebulwark.com/p/trumps-storm…

'If that’s abandonment, then I know quite a few anti-Taliban resistance groups who would love to be similarly abandoned.' Bad policy, maybe. 'Abandonment,' not at all.

Today's Morning Shots from Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger plus Will Selber 🇦🇫🇮🇱🇺🇦: thebulwark.com/p/biden-hasnt-…

Great looking, solid action, and, of course, giant apes. What's not to like? The film 'feels a little like a two-plus-hour prologue for a bigger, more fulfilling movie.' Sonny Bunch reviews 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes': thebulwark.com/p/kingdom-of-t…

There are two questions mixed up in here. First: What is the right thing to do? Second: What impact will Gaza have on Biden’s chances of winning in November? The first question is the most important, but also the most complicated. New from Nicholas Grossman: thebulwark.com/p/israel-gaza-…

For all its pretensions to mathematical objectivity, the moral paradigm of crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried cannot tell you how to respond to “the terrible temptation to do good.” M.M.Townsend from the archives: plus.thebulwark.com/p/effective-al…

'It is not just that Donald Trump’s threat to democracy is more important than Biden’s age. It is that our constitutional system is precisely what protects us from any such personal flaws in a chief executive.' ICYMI Rob Tracinski: plus.thebulwark.com/p/agonizing-ab…

'Naturally donors, candidates, and elected Republicans working hard to stem the tide of losses the party has suffered in the age of Trump—in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and already in 2024 (in NY-3)—objected in outrage. Right?' Ha! plus.thebulwark.com/p/trump-legal-…

'Standing up to a Putin who used a nuclear weapon is risky. Living in a world in which there are many nuclear Putins may be even more risky. We should decide which risk is more acceptable, and prepare accordingly.' From the archives: thebulwark.com/if-putin-were-…

'The idea that our culture should remain untouched by the hand of government is now a quaint one. When the unwritten rules erode, they leave behind a vacuum that gets filled by illiberalism on both the left and right.' Christian Schneider: thebulwark.com/in-defense-of-…

This has been a bad week for Donald Trump in the Manhattan trial courtroom where he has been spending his days—but a very good week for him in Georgia and Florida. thebulwark.com/p/justice-dela…

'Shortly after their victory in Reno, the Mises Caucus removed a longstanding plank of the Libertarian party platform that had said, 'We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant.'' thebulwark.com/p/the-libertar…