Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social

When did college go from maker of the American Dream to breaker? What really caused the hatred of college/non-college divide between Dems, GOP? Is it fixable? I put everything into these questions and my book, After the Ivory Tower Falls. Preorder it now harpercollins.com/products/after…

Free the Spokane 9 Largely ignored in a small market, feds' indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in the Washington city, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent This was always the plan. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/ice-pr…

"Understanding that the Epstein theories are the very cornerstone of the MAGA movement ought to be a wake-up call for top Democrats… In 2025, it’s the conspiracies, stupid — and here’s what the other side needs to understand." @Will_Bunch inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

.@Will_Bunch: "The current Epstein moment is maybe the best manifestation I’ve seen of the cancer eating away at American democracy, and you can’t treat a disease until you diagnose it." inquirer.com/opinion/commen… #UnitedStates

Jeffrey Epstein was never 'just a distraction' - not to MAGA which saw him as the embodiment of liberal hypocrisy, and is much madder about their bubble bursting than any Medicaid cuts What Dems must learn from the Epstein meltdown. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

"We expect bravery from our first responders, and from our troops. It doesn’t seem too much to simply ask that our senators and House members speak the truth about the dangers to democracy and vote their conscience, not their fears. Even if that makes their life uncomfortable..."

A senator saw threats to democracy were tearing America apart, so he spoke out, even after colleagues warned he'd be attacked. Charles Sumner was nearly caned to death in 1856, but he lives on as a hero Today, fear is winning in Congress. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/lisa-m…

.@Will_Bunch: "The more recent developments in the saga show how #Trump’s Justice Department (...) invented a completely different and phony “due process” stacked heavily against Abrego Garcia." inquirer.com/opinion/kilmar… #UnitedStates

The "Kafkaesque" story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, migrant Everyman who got in his car and ended up in a Salvadoran gulag, with a regime that will never let him free Why the regime defies judges and invents crimes to deny one man due process. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/kilmar…

Ignore any sober analysis of "why Trump went to war." The truth? A buck-naked mad king impulsively and unilaterally dropped bombs 6.500 miles away because that's what fascist dictators always do in the end This is Donald Trump's war, not ours. My column inquirer.com/opinion/donald…

Trump said you can measure a presidency by the wars you avoid, and Saturday's Iran bombing was the exclamation point on his abject failure Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/donald…

.@Will_Bunch: "Let’s be clear about what just happened. This is not America’s war. Those bombs were not dropped on #Iran in my name, or yours. This is #Trump’s war, and his alone." inquirer.com/opinion/donald… #UnitedStates

CBS has done bad stuff going way back to the Smothers Brothers Still, Colbert's ouster feels different. This isn't just capitalism but fascism, and there's no Murrow or Cronkite to cut through the billionaire BS My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…

Va.'s George Mason University is a Top 5 conservative school, so why is it under attack from the Trump regime? Is it because the president is Black? What MAGA wants is clear. The nice white campuses of the 1950s. My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…

I hope this flies too. What I like here, and everyone knows, climate change denial, staff cuts and more in Texas add uo to tragedy. @PhillyInquirer @Will_Bunch inquirer.com/columnists/att…

.@Will_Bunch Newsletter: The money that could have reached every household in Kerr County with a 1 a.m. siren blast instead went to buying razor wire that slashed pregnant moms in the Rio Grande or busing migrants to Chicago. inquirer.com/columnists/att… via @phillyinquirer

The Texas flood brought many tales of individual heroism But so many more lives would have been saved if leaders dropped climate denial and believed in government for the public good, not for cruelty My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…

WATCH: “THE STOP AMERICAN GESTAPO ACT” Rep. @brotherjones_ held a presser with Councilwoman Zulfat Suara, @TNJFON, clergy to introduce his bill to ban Trump’s Gestapo from wearing masks and grabbing people without ID’ing themselves — saying it should not be a partisan issue.

"Alligator Alcatraz" is only the beginning. The "Big Beautiful Bill" includes a $75 billion ICE windfall that will allow the Trump regime to hire thousands of masked goons and build a gulag archipelago of camps Inside a nightmare: My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…

FYI @Will_Bunch fans... our school newspaper, 50 years ago. I was Editor-in-Chief and I still put Will's piece above mine, on the front page (it was better). It's not a bad looking front page, especially considering it's handmade (press-apply letters, manually typed, by me)

Why Mamdani-Cuomo in NYC is huge. A Dem gerontocracy is spending millions on consultants to find a "Joe Rogan of the left," but when a real-life candidate energizes Gen Z, the elites try to crush him The bleak future if creepy Cuomo wins. My new column inquirer.com/columnists/att…