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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.

Episodes

286 | Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to Global Domination - Mark Bergen on How YouTube Got to Billions of Daily Views

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Mark Bergen, technology reporter and author of Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination, joins The Realignment to discuss why YouTube flies under the radar in the big tech conversa...

Sep 09, 202259 minEp. 299

285 | Saagar & Marshall: Was the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan Botched? + 9/11 Anniversary Reflection

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. Note: See tomorrow's Substack for the full list of books we mention in this episode. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Saagar and Marshall discuss the dual anniversaries of 9/11 and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan falling the fall of Kabul in 2...

Sep 08, 202254 minEp. 298

284 | The Realignment x The Pull Request: Antonio García Martinez on What's Broken, How to Fix It, or Do We Just Move to Balaji's Network State?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. The Pull Request: https://www.callin.com/show/the-pull-request-ucnDJmEKAa Balaji Srinivasan's Network State Realignment Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/264-balaji-srinivasan-how-and-why-to-start-new-countries/id1474687988?i=1000569114998 The Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com/ Antonio's Previous Realignment Appearance: https://podcasts.appl...

Sep 06, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 297

283 | California at the Epicenter of America's New Energy Crisis - Katherine Blunt on the Fall of PG&E, the Grid, and New Energy Sources

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Katherine Blunt, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric - and What It Means for America's Power Grid, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenge of fi...

Sep 02, 202241 minEp. 296

282 | The Realignment X Narratives Podcast: How Do We Make it to the 2030s?

The Narratives Podcast: https://narrativespodcast.com/ Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] In this Labor Day weekend crossover, Marshall recorded an in-person crossover episode in Austin with the Narratives Podcast. Will Jarvis and Lars Doucet spoke w...

Sep 01, 20221 hr 29 minEp. 295

281 | Why Are Latino Voters Moving Towards Trump? - Geraldo Cadava on the GOP's Relationship with Hispanic Voters

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University professor and author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump, joins The Realignment to discuss how working-class Republi...

Aug 30, 202256 minEp. 294

280 | Saagar & Marshall on Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plans + Beth Macy on the Next Stage of the Opioid Crisis

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] In today's two-part episode, Saagar and Marshall discuss President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and how they think one can actually "solve" America's higher education crisis. Then, Beth Macy, author of Rais...

Aug 26, 20221 hr 26 minEp. 293

279 | Sprinting Towards Conflict with a Peaking China - Michael Beckley on the Dangers of the Next Decade

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Michael Beckley, Tufts University professor and co-author (with Hal Brands) of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, joins The Realignment to discuss why he believes that China's power relative to the United ...

Aug 25, 202256 minEp. 292

278 | Why Were Schools Closed So Long During COVID? - Anya Kamenetz on What COVID Did to Children

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Anya Kamenetz, former NPR education reporter and author of The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now, joins The Realignment to discuss how COVID impacted a generation of school-aged ch...

Aug 23, 202258 minEp. 291

277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Tobias Harris, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, joins The Realignment to discuss the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, how...

Aug 19, 202257 minEp. 290

276 | Saagar & Marshall: What Are Realignments? Liz Cheney's Defeat + Trump's Centrality, and U.S.-Taiwan Policy After Pelosi's Visit

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. In today's discussion episode, Saagar and Marshall discuss Rep. Liz Cheney's R...

Aug 18, 20221 hr 21 minEp. 289

275 | Jason Willick: Mar-a-Lago and Justice in a Divided America

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Washington Post columnist Jason Willick joins The Realignment to discuss the aftermath of the FBI's search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, how both parties approach federal law enforcement, and the...

Aug 16, 20221 hr 8 minEp. 288

273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment near the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul to discuss how ...

Aug 09, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 285

272 | Frank DiStefano: Why Democrats & Republicans Haven't Realigned (Yet)

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment FRANK'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrankDiStefano Email us at: [email protected] Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America's Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment's weekly discussion...

Aug 05, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 284

270 | Season Premiere: Saagar & Marshall Discuss Andrew Yang's Forward, Pelosi in Taiwan, and More

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Saagar and Marshall kick off The Realignment's new season by discussing Andrew Yang's new political party, America's political center-of-gravity, whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in the face of CCP pro...

Aug 02, 20221 hr 18 minEp. 282

269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa's Reckoning Means for the U.S.

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE EVE'S BOOK AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] For the show's season finale (we're back in August) Eve Fairbanks, author of The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning, joins The Realignment to discuss paral...

Jul 22, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 281

268 | Saagar & Marshall on Realignments + Mark Leibovich on Trump's DC

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] After last week's technical difficulties, we've combined two recordings that were cut short. First, Saagar and Marshall discuss the NYT's new poll on the realignment of American politics on issues of race, class, an...

Jul 21, 20221 hr 8 minEp. 280

Listener Q&A: Collapsing Institutions and Medicore Elites. How to Get Into Suits. What Are the Best Books on the Path to WW1? Do Blue State Migrants Bring Their Problems to Red States? And More....

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/ . In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page.

Jul 20, 202211 minEp. 279

267 | Matthew Ball: How the Metaverse Could Revolutionize Everything

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE THE METAVERSE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment READ MATTHEW'S ESSAYS https://www.matthewball.vc/ Email us at: [email protected] Matthew Ball, author of The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, joins The Realignment to argue the Metaverse represent...

Jul 19, 20221 hr 15 minEp. 278

Note for Listeners About Today and Tomorrow's Episodes, Season Finale, and Subscribe to the Show!

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE ONE PERSON ONE, VOTE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Due to technical difficulties, we're releasing today and tomorrow's episodes next week. After next Friday, we're taking the week of July 25th off before coming back the week of A...

Jul 14, 20222 minEp. 277

266 | Nick Seabrook: Gerrymandering, Responsive Politics, and the Threat to Democracy

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE ONE PERSON ONE, VOTE AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Nick Seabrook, author of One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America, joins The Realignment to discuss the history of gerrymandering and its costs, th...

Jul 12, 20221 hr 1 minEp. 276

265 | Peter Leyden: Is California the Future of American Politics?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. Links to Peter Leyden's Writing: https://www.peterleyden.com/writing REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Peter Leyden, Host of the Civilization Salons at The Long Now Foundation and former Managing Editor of Wired Magazine, joins The Realignment to di...

Jul 08, 20221 hr 27 minEp. 275

264 | Balaji Srinivasan: How and Why to Start New Countries

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native "Network States" are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics r...

Jul 07, 20221 hr 44 minEp. 274

Teaser | Biweekly Supercast Listener Q&A: Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils, Saagar's Graduate School Advice, Peter Zeihan and the Blob, and More...

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to listen to this episode, and all of our other bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/ . In this teaser of today's bonus episode for Supercast subscribers, Marshall and Saagar answer questions from our Supercast AMA page. We cover: Does choosing not to vote lead to change? Saagar and Marshall's advice on deciding to attend graduate school. How do we rank modern presidents? Does Peter Zeihan vindicate the foreign policy establishment? And more....

Jul 06, 20227 minEp. 273

263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway?

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Steven McGregor, co-author with Brendan Simms of The Silver Waterfall: How Ame...

Jul 05, 20221 hr 16 minEp. 272

262 | Saagar & Marshall: Marc Andreessen Reflections, Roe v. Wade Overturn and Where We Go Next + the Case for Suits and Ties

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Saagar and Marshall reflect on this week's episodes with a16z's Marc Andreesse...

Jul 01, 20221 hr 11 minEp. 271

261 | Katherine Boyle: Getting Serious About American Dynamism

Subscribe to The Realignment on Supercast to support the show and access all of our bonus content: https://realignment.supercast.com/. REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email us at: [email protected] This episode and our expanded coverage are made possible thanks to our Supercast subscribers. If you can, please support the show above. Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z and co-lead of the firm's American Dy...

Jun 30, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 270
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