The Realignment

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391 | Larry Kramer: America After Neoliberalism Jul 27, 2023

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Larry Kramer, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, joins The Realignment. Larry and Marshall discuss why the Neoliberal approach is unable to address the economic challenges of the 2020s, what a post-Neoliberal paradigm could look like, where the political right and left can and cannot find common ground, shifting definitions of capitalism, and how a society's interpretation of what constitutes "common sense" when it comes to the economy shifts over time.

390 | Amy Finkelstein: How to Tear Down the Broken Healthcare System Jul 25, 2023

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Amy Finkelstein, MIT economist, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and co-author of We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, joins The Realignment. Amy and Marshall discuss why we need to stop applying Band-Aids to a broken system and instead pursue wholesale reform, the need to distinguish between (and address separately) the problems of 30 million Americans without health insurance and spiraling healthcare costs, moving beyond slogans like "Medicare for All," and what it would take to offer "basic" healthcare coverage to the entire country.

Realignment Supercast AMA Teaser | Bidenomics Review, Saagar's Wedding, Vivek's Rising Polls, Modern Church Committee, and More... Jul 21, 2023

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389 | Megan Reiss: The New Era of Geopolitical Risk - How AI Can Fix Supply Chains Jul 20, 2023

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Dr. Megan Reiss, Founder & CEO of SolidIntel Inc. and former National Security Policy Advisor for Senator Mitt Romney, joins The Realignment. Megan and Marshall discuss how the private sector's ability to confront post-COVID, U.S.-China trade wars, and Ukraine-related geopolitical risks, her careers in academia, Capitol Hill, and the tech industry, and how advancements in artificial intelligence can untangle complicated supply chains.

388 | Neil Howe: The Fourth Turning Is Here - How America's Crisis Will End Jul 18, 2023

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Neil Howe, author of The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End, joins The Realignment. Neil and Marshall discuss his follow up to The Fourth Turning, his 1997 bestseller that predicted America's current era of political turmoil and international disorder, how and why the crisis will resolve over the next decade, the impact of generational turnover on American history, and why today's challenges rhyme with those of the 1930s-1940s.

387 | Richard Kahlenberg: Class-Based Solutions to America's Housing and Education Problems Jul 13, 2023

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Richard D. Kahlenberg, author of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See, joins The Realignment. Richard and Marshall discuss whether race or class is a bigger obstacle to success in America, how RFK's cross-racial coalition inspired Richard's work, how exclusionary zoning and NIMBYism lie at the heart of the housing crisis, and his advocacy for class-based affirmative action after the Supreme Court's abolishment of race-based affirmative action.

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386 | Michael R. Gordon: The U.S. Isn't Ready for Great Power Conflict - And the Iraq War(s) That Led It There Jul 11, 2023

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Michael R. Gordon, National Security Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, joins The Realignment. Michael and Marshall discuss how current era of Great Power conflict differs from the War on Terror, how the Pentagon is transforming the U.S. military to meet the moment, the legacy of America's involvement in Iraq from the Gulf War to the fall of ISIS in 2019, and why the U.S. campaign against ISIS, with its focus on enabling local allies on the ground offers a strategic model for future conflicts.

385 | Wesley Lowery: Backlash Politics from Obama 2008 to the Summer of 2020 and Beyond Jul 06, 2023

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Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Wesley discuss the rise and impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the benefits and limits of "pragmatism," how the U.S. is (and isn't) fulfilling the promise of multiracial democracy, policing after "Defund," and where the reparations debate stands.

384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration Jul 04, 2023

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Peter Turchin, author of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, joins The Realignment. Peter and Marshall discuss his 2010 prediction that the U.S. would experience significant political turmoil in 2020, the factors that drove 2010-2020s political conflict, why the elite-overproduction phenomenon is one of the strongest determinants of societal health, and the historical precedents of nations remaining unified in the face of the above challenges.

383 | Sean A. Mirski: How the USA's Rise to Regional Hegemony Rhymes with China's Jun 29, 2023

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Sean A. Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sean discuss America's rise to regional hegemony after the Civil War, the anxieties and ambitions that shaped the country's foreign policy aims in the age of European imperialism, the cost of foreign interventions in the Western Hemisphere, and how the aims and means of China's regional ambitions will fundamentally shape the 21st century.

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