The Realignment

Katherine Gehl, author of The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy and founder of The Institute for Political Innovation joins The Realignment to discuss why Washington isn’t actually broken, and instead operates exactly as it was designed, why an increasing number of people feel politically homeless, and how to restore competition to the p...

Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, returns to The Realignment to define what realignments are (and aren’t), how either political party could collapse, and why our system isn’t ready to face the 21st century. Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube Channel for more on realignments: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyI2l4jUJ-GqtbtMhCvsWzg...

Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends join The Realignment for a crossover episode to announce the launch of Saagar and Krystal’s new YouTube show/podcast, Breaking Points, launching on June 7th. Subscribe to Breaking Points at: krystalandsaagar.com. Subscribe to the Breaking Points YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints To purchase the long-awaited Realignmen...

Marshall’s launched a new podcast with On Deck. Go to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-end/id1568752165 to check out the first three episodes with Balaji Srinivasan, Erik Torenberg, and Katherine Boyle and leave a five-star review on Apple podcasts. Edward-Isaac Dovere, author of Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump and staff writer at The Atlantic, jo...

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Zachary Karabell, author of Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, joins The Realignment to discuss the rise of American finance, the rise and fall of “the establishment,” America and China’s long divorce process, and why American’s will have to adjust to being a “normal” country moving forward. Buy Zachary's book using our Bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/the...

Purchase Brad’s books (Amazon Unbound, The Upstarts, and The Everything Store) at The Realignment’s Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg News and author of Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, joins The Realignment to discuss the challenges, impact, and scope of Jeff Be...

Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Due to a last-minute booking snafu (and a lack of backup episodes), we’re releasing a book recommendations update episode instead of our usual programming. Don’t worry, we’ll be back with new content the rest of the week

Niall Ferguson, author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss why some societies fall apart while others rise in the face of doom, how a Cold War between the U.S. and China could lead to catastrophe, and analyze the pathologies facing modern America through the lenses of imperial decline, finance, instituti...

Senator Josh Hawley returns to The Realignment to discuss the right’s fraying relationship with the tech industry and what antitrust enforcement can (and can’t), accomplish.

We’re on vacation this week, but rather than not publish anything, we’re releasing a special episode featuring the entire team that puts together the show. Join Marshall, Saagar, Phil, James, and Emma for episode, book, and podcast recommendations to hold you over until next week.

Cade Metz, technology correspondent with The New York Times and author of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of AI and the actors and players that will shape the technology’s future.

Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Julia Galef, author of The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast, joins The Realignment to make the case for embracing the “scout” mindset in order to make better decisions and avoid tribalism and wishful thinking, as opposed to the knee-jerk bias of...

Note: During today’s episode, we discuss our plans to launch a Supercast subscription in May: https://www.supercast.com/product. A bunch of you have already written that you’d like to support the show financially, so please email us at realignmentpod@gmail.com if you’d subscribe to a paid Realignment membership, plus we’d love to hear any suggestions with what additional features we should add to...

Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Zachary Carter, Writer in Residence at the Omidyar Network and author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, returns to The Realignment to discuss the government response to COVID, how capitalism will and won’t change after the pandemic, and how economic policy debates played out ove...

Email us your thoughts about this episode, or any episode, at realignmentpod@gmail.com Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Dr. Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and author of Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, joins The Realignment to reflect on the failures and success of the war on drugs, the e...

Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack, now released on Thursdays: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out Elliot and Admiral Stavridis’s Bookshop recommendations on the U.S. and China, foreign policy, and warfare: https://bookshop.org/lists/2034-admiral-james-stavridis-and-elliot-ackerman-book-recommendations Elliot Ackerman, co-author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War and Marine com...

Bookshop link for Lisa’s books, plus recommendations discussed in the episode: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-116-lisa-napoli-books-recommendations Lisa Napoli, author of Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR and Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News, returns to The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and...

Subscribe to Frank’s YouTube channel on realignments: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyI2l4jUJ-GqtbtMhCvsWzg Frank DiStefano, author of The Next Realignment: Why America’s Parties Are Crumbling and What Happens Next, joins The Realignment to explain why realignments are a regular feature of American politics, the need to move beyond 20th century debates between conservatives and liberals, and wh...

Glenn Greenwald, Co-Founder of The Intercept and author of Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, joins The Realignment to discuss the past, present, and future of Brazil, America’s involvement in Latin America during and after the Cold War, and the legacy of the Edward Snowden leaks. Check out our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

We’ve built a special Bookshop selection on Obamacare, healthcare, and Medicare for All: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-113-obamacare-healthcare-reform-and-the-medicare-for-all-debate Jonathan Cohn, a senior national correspondent at HuffPost and the author of The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Care, joins The Realignment to offer the definitiv...

We’ve built a special booklist selection of 10 books to understand the U.S. and China: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-episode-112-u-s-china-book-list Josh Rogin, Washington Post columnist and author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century, joins The Realignment to discuss U.S.-China relations under Obama, Trump, and Biden, how Trump and the CCP’s leadershi...

Realignment Bookshop list of Admiral Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman’s book recommendations on the U.S. and China: https://bookshop.org/lists/2034-admiral-james-stavridis-and-elliot-ackerman-book-recommendations Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and co-author (with Elliot Ackerman) of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, joins The Realignment to offer a warning about t...

Subscribe to The Realignment Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Alec MacGillis, senior reporter for ProPublica, joins The Realignment to discuss Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, how the rise and dominance of Amazon tells the story of 21st century America, and the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on...

Join our Thursday (3/18) Clubhouse event featuring Marshall, Saagar, Alex Kantrowitz, Jane Coaston, and Joe Weisenthal: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/M4wpJeka Alex Kantrowtiz, writer and host of the Big Technology newsletter and podcast, rejoins The Realignment to discuss our new collaboration on Clubhouse and whether the (*knocks on wood*) post COVID 2020’s will be the new Roaring 20’s.