The Realignment Podcast
1) 587 | Mike Konczal: What’s Actually Driving the Affordability Crisis + Announcing the Niskanen Summer Institute for Undergrads
Mike Konczal, Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project and co-author of The Affordability Framework, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Mike discuss the why the afforda...Show More
2) 586 | Oliver Libby: Strong Floor, No Ceiling - A Radical Moderate's Case for Reigniting the American Dream
Oliver Libby, civic investor and author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling: Building a New Foundation for the American Dream, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Oliver discuss his post-2024 Strong Floor, No...Show More
3) 585 | Chris Matthews: The Politics of Authenticity and Why Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters
Chris Matthews, former host of MSNBC's Hardball (now on Substack) and author of Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Chris discuss Rober...Show More
4) 584 | Shadi Hamid: A Skeptic's Case for American Power
Shadi Hamid, Washington Post Columnist and author of The Case for American Power, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Shadi discuss his case for American power despite one's opposition to the cou...Show More
5) 583 | William D. Hartung & Ben Freeman: The Pentagon's Trillion Dollar War Machine and the Debate Over America's Role in the World
The Quincy Institute's William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman, authors of Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home, join The Rea...Show More
6) 582 | George Packer: The Emergency - The Post-Literate Age and the Unwinding of American Liberalism
George Packer, Staff Writer at The Atlantic and author of The Emergency, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and George discuss his new work of Fiction: The Emergency, his transition back to fiction ...Show More
7) 581 | Jeffrey Rosen: Hamilton vs. Jefferson and the Battle Over Government Power in 21st Century America
Jeffrey Rosen, President of the National Constitution Center and author of The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America, returns to The Realignme...Show More
8) 580 | Jake Tapper: How to Fight and Prosecute Forever Wars from Al Qaeda to Venezuelan Strikes and Mexican Drug Cartels
Jake Tapper, CNN host and author of Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jake discuss the saga of the first and only succ...Show More
9) 579 | Liam Kerr: Deciding to Win: A Centrist Autopsy of the Post-2024 Democratic Party and the Center's Missing Story
Liam Kerr, Co-Founder of Welcome and co-author of Deciding to Win: Toward a Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Liam discuss challenge of articulating a c...Show More
10) The Realignment Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival | Reihan Salam: How Did We Get Here? NYC Working Class Immigrants, the Right's H1B Debate, and the New Cultural Politics of Immigration
Last week, Marshall interviewed Reihan Salam, President of the Manhattan Institute, at Newark's Aspen Ideas Festival: Economy. Marshall and Reihan discussed culture's impact on the economy and politic...Show More