The Realignment

The Realignment

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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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Jun 3, 2026

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557 | Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda Win America's Factional Future? 10.06.2025

Steve Teles in Ezra Klein's NYT column: Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power - The New York Times Josh Barro on Unions and Abundance: In Blue Cities, Abundance Will Require Fighting Labor Unions REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com

556 | Steve Teles: Are the Abundance Agenda and Populism Incompatible? 03.06.2025

Abundance vs. Populism Polling: Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance" REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Steve Teles, Johns Hopkins University Professor and Niskanen Center Senior Fellow, returns to The Realignment. Steve and Marshall discuss ne...

555 | Gary Gerstle & Noam Maggor: The Realignment, Post-Neoliberalism, and the Birth of a New Political Order 29.05.2025

Post-Neoliberalism Conference: Beyond Neoliberalism REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Historians Gary Gerstle and Noam Maggor, organizers of the Beyond Neoliberalism conference, join The Realignment. Marshall, Noam, and Gary discuss the origins and aims of their co...

554 | Ian Fletcher: Why Industrial Policy and Managed Trade Are Key to America's Future 27.05.2025

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Ian Fletcher, co-author of Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Ian discuss what industrial policy actually means and why it i...

553 | Steve Teles: Where Does the Abundance Agenda Go Next? 22.05.2025

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Steve Teles, Niskanen Center Senior Fellow and Johns Hopkins University professor, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Steve discuss the abundance agenda's future prospects, takeaways from the book tour, the left populist resp...

552 | Mark K. Updegrove: Presidential Character & the Weight of History - What Makes a Good President? 20.05.2025

Mark K. Updegrove, President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation, former Director of the LBJ Library and Museum, and author of Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mark discuss the relationship between character, leadership, and greatness in the American presidency, the case for not approaching politicians cynically, the personal stories behind...

551 | John Cassidy: The Rise of Capitalism's Critics on the Nationalist Right and Democratic Socialist Left 15.05.2025

REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com John Cassidy, New Yorker Staff Writer and author of Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI, joins The Realignment. Marshall and John discuss the rise of anti-capitalist sentiment on the left and...

550 | Elizabeth Wilkins: Abundance and the Left, Antitrust, & the Future of State Capacity 13.05.2025

Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein Show - Zephyr Teachout and Saikat Chakrabarti REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com Elizabeth Wilkins, President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute and alumn of the White House and Lina Khan's Federal Trade C...

549 | Former Secretary of Education John B. King: What Comes After the Abolishment of the Department of Education? 29.04.2025

Note: During the episode, Marshall discussed Mississippi's disadvantages in K-12 education. It must be noted that according to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, Mississippi achieved nation-leading gains in reading and math scores. https://governorreeves.ms.gov/governor-reeves-statement-on-mississippis-nation-leading-naep-gains-record-achievement/ REALIGNMENT NEWS...

548 | Chris Hughes: Why Marketcrafting is the Key to America's Economic Future 24.04.2025

Chris Hughes, Co-Founder of Facebook, Chairman of the Economic Security Project, and author of Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Chris discuss the false dichotomy of the "market" vs. "government" when it comes to developing America's economy and critical industries, the need for government to "marketcraft" the economy to achiev...

Introducing "Endless Frontiers": CFR's Rush Doshi on the U.S.-China Challenge 22.04.2025

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...

547 | Krish O'Mara Vignarajah: The Post-Realignment Politics of Refugee Policy and Immigration Reform 18.04.2025

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...

546 | Rotimi Adeoye: Where Does Abundance, the Anti-Oligarchy Movement, and the Dem Tea Party Go Next? 08.04.2025

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 Dere...

545 | Richard D. Kahlenberg: Is Class-Based Affirmative Action the Future of Higher Education? 03.04.2025

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 Ins...

544 | State Senator Mallory McMorrow: The Realignment Comes to Michigan 01.04.2025

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...

543 | Rep. Jake Auchincloss: How Democrats Lost the Battle of Ideas During the Realignment 27.03.2025

Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas? - The New York Times Rep. Jake Auchincloss on Why Democrats Need New Big Ideas | TIME REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/ PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Email Us: realignmentpod@gmail.com    

542 | Edward Fishman: Chokepoints - How America and Other Great Powers Wage Economic Warfare 25.03.2025

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 nuclea...

541 | Ezra Klein: The Abundance Agenda - Why Liberalism Needs to Build Again 18.03.2025

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 Realign...

540 | Felicia Wong & Steve Teles: Can the Abundance Agenda and Economic Populism Get Along? 11.03.2025

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...

FAI Presents | George P. Bush: Texas at the Center of The Realignment 10.03.2025

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...

539 | Didi Kuo & Steve Teles: Why Are Political Parties So Unpopular? 28.02.2025

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 re...

538 | Yoni Appelbaum: Stuck - How the Engine of American Opportunity Broke 25.02.2025

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 Americ...

Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza - What Will Trump II Mean for Israel, Palestine, & the Middle East 20.02.2025

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 administratio...

536 | Marc J. Dunkelman: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress - and How to Bring It Back 18.02.2025

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...

535 | Ross Douthat: Why You Should Be Religious & the Rise of the Post-Christian Right 11.02.2025

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. Mar...

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