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The Realignment

The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.
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Introducing "Endless Frontiers": CFR's Rush Doshi on the U.S.-China Challenge

Axios: Texas science summit draws Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush admin officials Lux Capital Riskgaming: Riskgaming: The Pessimistic Turn in Reindustrialization Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations joins for the first episode of the Endless Frontiers podcast. Rush and Endless Frontiers Executive Producer Marshall Kosloff discuss the decade-long goals of Endless Frontiers, America's advantages and disadv...

Apr 22, 202542 minEp. 621

547 | Krish O'Mara Vignarajah: The Post-Realignment Politics of Refugee Policy and Immigration Reform

Endless Frontiers: Axios - The future of U.S. security is today taking shape in Texas TedX: Krish O'Mara Vignarajah - What is America's Superpower? Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Krish discuss Global Refuge's work with American refugee resettlement, the roots of the global backlash against immigration and refugee resettlement, the case for immigration, how pro-immigration groups should respond to the 2024 election, the Biden admin...

Apr 18, 202547 minEp. 620

546 | Rotimi Adeoye: Where Does Abundance, the Anti-Oligarchy Movement, and the Dem Tea Party Go Next?

An Abundance of Ambiguity | Washington Monthly The Abundance Agenda – People's Policy Project REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Rotimi Adeoye, columnist and MSNBC contributor, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Rotimi discuss the takeaways from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance book tour as the abundance agenda picks up steam, the impact of Bernie Sander...

Apr 08, 20251 hr 11 minEp. 619

545 | Richard D. Kahlenberg: Is Class-Based Affirmative Action the Future of Higher Education?

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges and Director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, returns to The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss the future of higher education afte...

Apr 03, 20251 hr 2 minEp. 618

544 | State Senator Mallory McMorrow: The Realignment Comes to Michigan

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Mallory McMorrow, Michigan State Senator and author of Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mallory discuss Michigan's role in American politics in 2024 and beyond, the Abundance Agenda and the centrality of the affordability crisis and government failu...

Apr 01, 202557 minEp. 617

542 | Edward Fishman: Chokepoints - How America and Other Great Powers Wage Economic Warfare

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Edward Fishman, author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, joins The Realignment. Edward and Marshall discuss the rise of economic warfare, from the War on Terror to the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, economic warfare track record when it comes to accomplishin...

Mar 25, 202559 minEp. 615

541 | Ezra Klein: The Abundance Agenda - Why Liberalism Needs to Build Again

Announcement: Open Philanthropy $120 Abundance and Growth Fund Job Posting: Open Philanthropy - Senior Program Officer, Abundance and Growth Fund REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Ezra Klein, host of the Ezra Klein Show and co-author of Abundance, joins The Realignment. Ezra and Marshall discuss the Abundance Agenda, the housing crisis, the failure to build infra...

Mar 18, 20251 hr 2 minEp. 614

540 | Felicia Wong & Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda and Economic Populism Get Along?

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance - Niskanen Center The rise of the abundance faction - Niskanen Center The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality: Lindsey, Brink, Teles, Steven M.: 9780190627768: Amazon...

Mar 11, 20251 hr 47 minEp. 613

FAI Presents | George P. Bush: Texas at the Center of The Realignment

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com George P. Bush, former Texas Land Commissioner, joins The Realignment for the first of a multi-month series on Texas and the future of American politics. Marshall and George discuss the lace and role of Texas in America's political realignment, the rise and fall of Blue Texas from the 2010s-2024, the impact of minorities moving t...

Mar 10, 202549 minEp. 612

539 | Didi Kuo & Steve Teles: Why Are Political Parties So Unpopular?

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Didi Kuo, author of The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't, joins the Niskanen Center's Steve Teles and Marshall on The Realignment. Didi, Steve, and Marshall discuss why political parties have reached record levels of unpopularity in the United States, what "good" political parties could look l...

Feb 28, 20251 hr 7 minEp. 611

538 | Yoni Appelbaum: Stuck - How the Engine of American Opportunity Broke

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Yoni Appelbaum, author of Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity and Deputy Executive Director of The Atlantic, joins The Realignment. Yoni and Marshall discuss the state of the American Dream, the country's sliding reputation as the "land of opportunity" since the 1970s, why America...

Feb 25, 202549 minEp. 610

Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza - What Will Trump II Mean for Israel, Palestine, & the Middle East

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Pankaj Mishra, author of The World After Gaza: A History, joins The Realignment. Pankaj and Marshall discuss the origins of October 7th, the possibility of the U.S. "owning" Gaza after the conflict ends, why the Biden administration's approach to the conflict failed, and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

Feb 20, 202558 minEp. 609

536 | Marc J. Dunkelman: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - and How to Bring It Back

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Marc J. Dunkelman, author of Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back and a Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, joins The Realignment. Marc and Marshall discuss the central causes of government's inability to accomplish big projects, why America and the progre...

Feb 18, 20251 hrEp. 608

535 | Ross Douthat: Why You Should Be Religious & the Rise of the Post-Christian Right

Opinion | Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism - The New York Times X: Post Religious Right Tweet REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ross discuss the case for serious religious belief in a secularized America, the rise of t...

Feb 11, 202547 minEp. 607

534 | Jon Askonas: The Rise of the Tech Right - Smartphones, Porn, DOGE vs. USAID, and the New Trump Coalition

A Future for the Family: A New Technology Agenda for the Right - First Things Technology for the American Family | National Affairs REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Jon Askonas, FAI Senior Fellow & Assistant Professor, joins The Realignment. Jon and Marshall discuss the right's new technology agenda, the relationship between the family and technology, Presid...

Feb 04, 20251 hr 7 minEp. 606

533 | Senator Ron Wyden: Why We Need More "Chutzpah" in Politics + Marshall's Baby Announcement

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com The Realignment is back from Marshall's parental leave! Today, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, author of It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Senator Wyden discuss why American politics could you more "Chutzpah," lessons from his career in activism and politics, what it ...

Feb 03, 202531 minEp. 605

532 | Juan Williams: The Rise & Fall of the 2nd Civil Rights Movement

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Juan Williams, Fox News Policy Analyst and author of New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Juan discuss how a second civil rights movement centered on policing, incarceration, and inequality rose during the Obama 2010s, demographic change in America since...

Jan 23, 202559 minEp. 604

531 | Saagar Enjeti: The Trump Vibe Shift Hits Washington

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Saagar Enjeti, Co-Host of Breaking Points, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Saagar discuss the ways that President Trump's second term could differ from his first, where a second Trump presidency could go right or wrong, and what longstanding political questions were settled in the 2024 election....

Jan 21, 202549 minEp. 603

530 | Felicia Wong: What Joe Biden's Legacy Means for the Future of American Politics

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Felicia Wong, the outgoing president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Felicia discuss what the Biden presidency means for the left, where the conversation on "post-neoliberalism" stands after Donald Trump's 2024 victory, the need for new communication strategies in the emerging policy enviro...

Jan 16, 20251 hr 10 minEp. 602

529 | Senator Chris Murphy: Can Economic Populism Win the Fight for the Working Class?

Democrats and Republicans Race to Embrace Populism - The Atlantic Chris Murphy: America Has Problems That the Free Market Can't Solve - The Atlantic Opinion | The Senator Warning Democrats of a Crisis Unfolding Beneath Their Noses - The New York Times REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy joins The Realignment. Marshall and Senator Mu...

Jan 14, 202532 minEp. 601

528 | Jennifer Pahlka & Andrew Greenway: The State Capacity Agenda for 2025

The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025: The how we need now: a capacity agenda for 2025 - Niskanen Center Jennifer Pahlka Substack: Eating Policy | Jennifer Pahlka | Substack REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway, co-authors of the Niskanen Center's The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda for 2025, join The Realignment. Mar...

Jan 09, 20251 hr 7 minEp. 600

527 | Julius Krein: The Blueprint for an American Manufacturing Renaissance

New American Industrial Alliance: Our Mission | NAIA REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Julius Krein, Founder and Editor of American Affairs and Chairman of the New American Industrial Alliance, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Julius discuss the founding of NAIA and its mission to spur a techno-industrial revolution, manufacturing's dominance of American ...

Jan 07, 20251 hr 2 minEp. 599

526 | Steve Teles & Marshall Kosloff: Abundance and Its Enemies

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com In the latest edition of Marshall and Steve Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University discussion series, they wrap the series for 2024, revisit The New Republic's tradition of offering ann...

Dec 12, 202455 minEp. 598

525 | Noah Smith: The Trends That Will Define American Politics in 2025

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ Noahpinion Substack: Noahpinion | Noah Smith | Substack REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com...

Dec 10, 202455 minEp. 597

524 | Jason Willick: Why the Resistance Failed to Stop Trump

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Jason Willick, opinion columnist at The Washington Post, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Jason discuss California's past and future as the chief opposition state to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris an...

Dec 03, 202453 minEp. 596

523 | Misha Chellam: What's Next for the Abundance Agenda?

Abundance Network: Abundance Network Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Misha Chellam, Co-Founder of the Abundance Network, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Misha discuss the state of the Abundance movement, Abundance Network's efforts ...

Nov 26, 202450 minEp. 595

522 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats Shouldn't Offer Voters Diet Coke Populism When They Order Coca-Cola

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the dangers of offering "Diet Coke" populism when voters are clearly ordering "Coke," how politicians should approach independ...

Nov 21, 202457 minEp. 594

521 | Kevin D. Roberts: Trump's Election Mandate and the Legacy of Project 2025

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Dr. Kevin D. Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation and author of Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Kevin discuss why Heritage's Projec...

Nov 19, 202456 minEp. 593

520 | Reihan Salam: How Republicans Built a Grand New Party During the Trump Era

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/ REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment. Reihan and Marshall discuss the GOP's transformation from the 200s George W. Bush presidency to Trump's 2024 victory, the party's...

Nov 14, 20241 hr 20 minEp. 592
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