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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 and Gavin Newsom's futures, why the legal approach to opposing Trump failed, and where the Resistance to Trump goes from here. 

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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 to organize in states like California, the need to move Abundance conversations beyond coastal blue states towards red states that actually build, and how Realignment listeners can get involved at the local and state level. 

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In a special edition of The Realignment podcast, Marshall and Saagar discuss today's ongoing presidential election. They discuss whether the issue of "character" should determine one's vote, what the realignment's framework got right (and wrong), and the prospects for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on election night.

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Nicholas Dirks, former Chancelor of UC Berkeley, author of City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University, and President & CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, joins The Realignment. Nicholas and Marshall discuss how his tenure at UC Berkely in 2010s presaged today's debates over free speech, tuition, and administrative bloat, increased societal distrust of higher education, and how the university system must evolve to meet the needs of a changing America. 

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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the state of the GOP Primary moving into South Carolina, the state of the media industry after this week's mass layoffs, the standoff between the Biden administration and Texas, answer audience questions, and more...

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Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, returns to The Realignment. Noah and Marshall discuss the likely Biden vs. Trump contest in November, the challenges facing the U.S.-led alliance system, the state of America's defense industrial base, the future of warfare through the lens of Ukraine, how democracies can deter autocratic aggression, and how to actually accomplish the industrial policy aims of the CHIPS Act and IRA.

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Benjamin Herold, education reporter and author of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs, joins The Realignment. Benjamin and Marshall discuss the rise and fall of suburbia through the lens of five families, why many middle-class suburbs resemble a Ponzi scheme, debates between progressives and the liberal status quo over race, the role of school choice, and the state of the American dream. 

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Nick Romeo, New Yorker writer and author of The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nick discuss the outdated nature of many of the dogmas preached by modern economists, the growing number of new approaches aimed at reshaping economic outcomes, the importance of "political economy," and the opportunity to provide an alternative to a stagnating status quo. 

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Tina Nguyen, a national correspondent for Puck and author of The MAGA Diaries, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Tina discuss the evolution of the conservative movement since President Obama's 2008 election, Tina's career in the right-wing ecosystem from Claremont to the Daily Caller, the state of digital media, and why alternate 2024 Republican alternatives aren't able to take over the MAGA mantle. 

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In 2024's first edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall and Saagar discuss their 2024 reading goals, the aftermath of the airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, Taiwan's elections, the start of the 2024 GOP presidential campaign, November election predictions, and audience Q&A.

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Arun Gupta, CEO of the NobleReach Foundation and co-author of Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Arun discuss the need for business, government, and society to collaborate in the face of massive societal challenges, what a mission-driven politics could look like, how working together across ecosystems can rebuild societal trust, and the generational opportunities at the intersection of technology and policy.

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Joshua Green, Bloomberg National Correspondent and author of The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics & Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising, joins The Realignment. Joshua and Marshall discuss the past, present, and future of left populism through the careers of AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, why the perceived inadequacy of the response to the 2008 Financial Crisis fueled the left, and how the Biden administration has built on populist insights from the 2010s and COVID.

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Yaroslav Trofimov, The Wall Street Journal's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and author of Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Yaroslav discuss his on the ground reporting since 2021, the history of the war from the start of the invasion to the present, why the 2023 counteroffensive failed to achieve its objectives, how to define victory or defeat, and how increasing aid skepticism in Western capitals could change the course of the war. 

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Timothy Shenk, GWU Professor and author of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Timothy discuss how culture has replaced economics as the electorate's dividing line, the multiple paths forward for Democrats after they began to lose working-class voters in the 1980s, why political consultants are more important than one would think, and whether the left or right will come out ahead as the American political system realigns.

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Heather Jo Richman, Founder and Chair of the U.S. Defense Investors Network, joins The Realignment. Heather and Marshall discuss her co-chairmanship of the newly-launched AUKUS Defense Investors Network, the AUKUS partnership between the U.S., U.K., and Australia, dual-use technologies such as cyber, AI, quantum computing, undersea capabilities, hypersonics, and EW/information sharing, and the role of the private sector when it comes to developing solutions to national security challenges. 

Earlier this month Marshall moderated a conversation Jennifer Pahlka and Michael Kratsios on their experiences moving from tech to government and back again.  Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under President Obama, and as a member of the Defense Innovation Board under Presidents Obama and Trump. This year, she published Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. Michael Kratsios, former Principal and Chief of Staff at Thiel Capital, served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Under Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon during the Trump administration. Today, he is Managing Director at Scale AI, where he leads corporate strategy and helps accelerate AI applications across industries. They discuss how tech can contribute to the national interest, opportunities for a tech "tour of duty" in government, and the sclerotic political environment in DC. 

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In the last episode of The Realignment's coverage of the Reagan Defense Forum, Matthew George, CEO of Merlin Labs, joins the show. Matthew and Marshall discuss the case for scaling the capabilities of autonomous flight, how the technology demonstrates the promise of human-machine partnership, the potential role of autonomous flight in an Indo-Pacific conflict, and the path to scaling autonomation in planes and beyond.

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In this week's EOY edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall and Saagar discuss their optimism moving into 2024, Biden and Trump's prospects for 2024, the "Vibecession" discourse, Zelensky's visit to DC, and more...

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Ryan Grim, the Intercept's Washington Bureau Chief, cohost of Counterpoints, and author of The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ryan discuss the state of the Democratic Party, where the Squad and "the left" fit into the party's coalition, whether political revolution is a valid concept in American politics, and AOC's successes and failures since her surprise 2018 election. 

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John Brennan, General Manager, Public Sector at Scale AI, joins The Realignment as part of the show's coverage of the 2023 Reagan National Defense Forum. John and Marshall discuss AI's impact on national security and warfare, how the U.S. can maintain its strategic advantage technological competition, and the sector's transition decade-long transition from science-fiction to present-day reality.

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Earlier this month, the Foundation for American Innovation flew The Realignment out to the Reagan Defense Forum for a series of interviews covering the intersection of national security, technology, and foreign policy. For today's interview, Marshall spoke with Shift CEO and Defense Ventures Summit Founder Mike Slagh. They discuss the defense ecosystem, recap last month's Defense Venture Summit, and articulate the respective roles played by veterans, founders, technologists, civilians, venture capitalists, and policymakers when it comes to addressing defense challenges.

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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focused on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've released something worth diving into. Today's guest is Georgia Tech's Johnny Smith, author of Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan. Marshall and Johnny discuss how racial politics shaped Michael Jordan's career, the role of sports in society, how American culture shifted during the 1980s and 1990s, and why the country's 1990s-era racial optimism seems to have transitioned into racial pessimism during the 2010s and 2020s. 

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Last weekend, the Foundation for American Innovation flew The Realignment out to the Reagan Defense Forum for a series of interviews covering the intersection of national security, technology, and foreign policy. Next up, Palantir co-founder and 8VC Managing Partner, Joe Lonsdale. Marshall and Joe discuss the evolution of the defense technology space from the War on Terror to the great power competition era of the 2020s, how technology can deter conflict, and his writing on how innovators can avoid becoming cogs in the legacy defense industrial complex.

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Last weekend, the Foundation for American Innovation flew The Realignment out to the Reagan Defense Forum for a series of interviews covering the intersection of national security, technology, and foreign policy. First up, Marshall interviewed Shyam Sankar, Palantir's Chief Technology Officer, about his perspective on the emerging defense tech ecosystem. They discuss why the post-Cold War "Last Supper" and peace dividend led to a financialized and over-consolidated military-industrial-complex, the current lack of a pre-WWII style mobilization of industry, and the need for "founders" in the mold of those who led the U.S. to victory in WWII and the Cold War.

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Steve Teles, John Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. On the latest edition of Marshall and Steve's monthly one-on-one, they discuss the policy landscape after the November election (regardless of who wins), their theories of political change, the country's ongoing mood shift from the 2000s and 2010s, and more...

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Tim Alberta, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Tim discuss the evolution of Trump's relationship from Evangelical Christians from 2015 to the present, the impact of a secularizing America on faith's role in politics, and the long-term effects of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focused on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've released something worth diving into. Today's guest is the journalist Jason Del Rey, author of Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets. Marshall and Jason discuss a listener's question about the state of Black Friday given the decline of in-person shopping, how the rivalry between Amazon and Walmart redefined the shopping experience, why both struggled with their in-person and online experiences, and why many of their efforts and startups they acquired during the 2010s floundered. 

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Ben Mezrich, author of Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Ben discuss Elon Musk's prospects for turning X (formerly Twitter) into not only a fundamentally sound business, but also the biggest global platform for speech, whether a profit-driven company can ever achieve free speech goals, post-acquisition successes, failures, and missed opportunities, and whether the platform can ever build the requisite subscriber base to escape its dependence on advertisers.

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Adam Hammer, President and Co-Founder of Roadrunner Venture Studios, a new venture studio based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Adam discuss why America fell behind its rivals when it comes to developing emerging deep/frontier technologies, opportunities in quantum science, space, energy, advanced manufacturing, and clean tech, New Mexico's status as a past and future cradle of innovation, and how the "venture studio" model of company formation and funding can address the deep tech blind spots missed by traditional venture capital. 

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Jennifer Burns, Stanford history professor and author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative & Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jennifer discuss Milton Friedman's legacy, his foundational role in shaping the bipartisan neoliberal approach that supplanted the New Deal in the 1970s and 1980s, whether the 2008 Financial Crisis, the trade policy fueled Trump revolt in 2016, and the COVID supply chain crunch has discredited his market-oriented worldview, and why the return of inflation politics could end up revitalizing his work for future generations. 

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In this Thanksgiving week edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall discusses how to ask questions, the death of Black Friday, subscription recommendations for friends and family, and the show's Thanksgiving plans. 

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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focused on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've released something worth diving into. Today's guest is Doug Melville, author of Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals. After a 2012 Hollywood production wrote out his family, Doug discovered his family's legacy in the segregated U.S. Army before and during World War II.

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Ganesh Sitaraman, author of Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, law professor, and the director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ganesh discuss why the airline industry is always in crisis, why the worst aspects of air travel, the cancellations, delays, lost baggage, tiny seats, and poor service, stem from policy choices, whether airline deregulation in the 1970s succeeded in its goals, and what a sustainable path forward for the industry looks like. 

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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focused on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've written, recorded, or thought about something worth diving into. Today's guest is Garrett M. Graff, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There. Marshall and Garrett discuss the history of the UFO and UAP phenomenons, what the government does (and doesn't) know about the topic, and the broader likelihood of whether or not extraterrestrial life has visited Earth.  

Ryan Craig, author of Apprentice Nation: How the Earn and Learn Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America and a Managing Director at Achieve Partners, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ryan discuss America's recent abandonment of the "college for all" approach, why bipartisan agreement on the importance of apprenticeships hasn't translated into their widespread availability, which countries have apprenticeship models worth following, and why the "earn and learn" approach is an effective pathway to career success and the American dream. 

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Alex Trembath, Deputy Director of the Breakthrough Institute, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Alex discuss the takeaways from Abundance 2024, the case for Ecomodernism, the rise and fall (and rise) of climate policy from An Inconvenient Truth to the Inflation Reduction Act, lessons from the clean energy space for other parts of the Abundance Agenda, and why blue states like California aren’t able to build clean energy, housing, and infrastructure as much as red states like Texas.

John Gray, author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss why he believes Hobbesian political realism is the only way of understanding the world of the 2020s, how faith in a liberal, well managed future peaked in the 1990s, why history could never truly "end," and how current events from Ukraine, Gaza, and the Pacific reflect could use a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethical approach.  

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Tim Marshall, geopolitics expert and author of The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World, returns to The Realignment. Tim and Marshall discuss how nation-states like the U.S., China, and Russia are navigating the new space race, where private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX will run-up against state power and earthbound conflict, the Starlink service's impact on the ground and at sea in Ukraine, and the promise of a space-driven future for humanity.

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In this week's edition of The Realignment's Recap and Ask Me Anything, Marshall and Saagar discuss the launch of Israel's invasion of Gaza, response to audience questions, and more...Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast can access the full version of this episode. 

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Welcome to RE: Something Interesting, The Realignment's new Saturday podcast focus on more casual conversations about American culture and society with people who've written, recorded, or thought about something worth diving into. Today's guest is Max Marshall, author of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story. Marshall and Max discuss the positives and negatives of fraternities, the rise and fall of the "bro" during aughts and 2010s, the rise of Xanax, and what it was like to go to college during a decade of social change. 

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John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, authors of Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes and The Emerging Democratic Majority, join The Realignment. Marshall, John, and Ruy discuss why the believe the modern Democratic Party has lost its way, why the party alienates the working class and rural voters it needs to win durable majorities, the forces that derailed their emerging Democratic majority thesis, and the President Joe Biden's 2024 prospects.

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Moshik Temkin, professor and author of Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X, joins The Realignment. In this conversation, Marshall and Moshik discuss the central question of his courses: do leaders make history or does history make leaders? They also discuss the unique leadership challenges posed by the foreign and domestic crises of the early 21st century, why "leaderless," decentralized movements across the political spectrum have failed to achieve their goals, how generational cohorts approach questions of hierarchy and activism differently, and the implications of America's coming [post-Baby Boomer and Silent Generation leadership transition.

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Patrick Ruffini, author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP and cofounder of Echelon Insights, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Patrick discuss how Trump assembled the most diverse Republican presidential coalition in history in 2020, how and why the GOP became the party of non-college educated workers, what the potential GOP populist coalition could look like, and how these trends could realign the American political system over the next few decades. 

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American Affairs: America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It

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David Adler and William B. Bonvillian, authors of America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It, published in American Affairs, join The Realignment. Marshall, David, and William discuss how the U.S. lost its leadership in global manufacturing, the impact of federal legislation like the CHIPS Act, and why the key to a successful industrial policy effort lies in redesigning the country's innovation system.

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Gilman Louie, CEO and co-founder of America's Frontier Fund, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Gilman discuss AFF's work investing in frontier technologies such as advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and energy, how the U.S. can outcompete and out-innovate rivals such as China, building a new playbook for deep tech founders, investors, and scientists, and how society can balance the promise and peril of emerging technologies.

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David M. Herszenhorn, Russia, Ukraine, and East Europe Editor of the Washington Post and author of The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner, joins The Realignment. Marshall and David discuss how Alexey Navalny became Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival, the tradition of the "dissident" in Russian and Soviet history, what an alternative vision for a democratic Russia could look like, and whether a democratic Russia with a leader in the style of Navalny would have a positive relationship with the West and its former Soviet neighbors?

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In the latest edition of The Realignment's weekend Ask Me Anything and discussion series, Saagar and Marshall discuss the present state of the 2024 election, climate protestors at Marshall's Abundance Agenda event, answer audience questions, and more.

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In this week's edition of The Realignment's new recap and audience Q&A/AMA show, Marshall and Saagar's discuss the start of Israel's invasion of Gaza, the implications for the U.S., and more. Subscribers to The Realignment's Supercast can access the full version of this episode. 

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Nikhil Goyal, former Senior Policy for Education and Children for Senator Bernie Sanders and author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Nikhil discuss why the child poverty rate experienced its greatest single-year increase on record last year, the role of COVID-era governmental support in reducing the poverty rate, his multi-year ethnographic study of poor children in Philadelphia, and his ultimate belief that America's poverty status-quo is a policy choice.