The Realignment

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382 | Robert Lighthizer: Building the New Pro-Worker Trade Consensus Jun 27, 2023

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Robert Lighthizer, former U.S. Trade Representative from 2017-2021 and author of No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers, joins The Realignment. Robert and Marshall discuss his experience negotiating trade deals with Japan and China in the Reagan and Trump administrations, why the working-class should be at the center of trade policy, the origins of the 2023 manufacturing boom, and the degree to which geopolitical concerns should shape the trade agenda.

Vacation Programming Note | We'll Be Back Next Week Jun 23, 2023

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After multiple rescheduled guests and a corrupted Ask Me Anything episode recording, team Realignment has taken the hint and the will be back on its regular schedule next week.

#381 | Michael G. Vickers: Intel, Special, Ops, & Strategy from the CIA's War in Afghanistan to Ukraine Jun 20, 2023

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Michael G. Vickers, author of By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy and former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, joins The Realignment. Michael and Marshall discuss his role in the CIA's secret war against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, his time in the Army's Special Forces after the Vietnam War, where the War on Terror went right and wrong, and how his experience as an operator, intelligence officer, and DoD official across four decades informs his view of how the U.S. should approach national security challenges of the 2020s.

Realignment Supercast AMA Teaser | Debating Bidenomics, RFK Jr's Voice, Our Cyberpunk Future, the Role of Tech Billionaires, and History Reading Motivations Jun 16, 2023

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380 | Senator Marco Rubio: How America Can Recover from "Decades of Decadence" Jun 15, 2023

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Senator Marco Rubio, author of Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity, returns to The Realignment. Senator Rubio discusses his critique of America's post-Cold War domestic and foreign policies, the threat of national decline, lessons from his 2016 presidential campaign, and the prospects for bipartisanship in Washington, DC.

379 | Jennifer Pahlka: How Government Limped into the Digital Age Jun 13, 2023

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Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, joins The Realignment. Jennifer and Marshall discuss industrial-era culture limits government's ability to handle the challenges of the 2020s, the gap between the promise of the digital age and actual results, why the answer isn't more money or more technology, and the lessons from her time addressing governmental failure at the local, state, and federal levels.

378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America Jun 09, 2023

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Joshua Zeitz, author of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation, joins The Realignment as part of the show's expanded American history coverage. Joshua and Marshall discuss President Abraham Lincoln's religious beliefs in the context of the lead up to the Civil War and the Second Great Awakening, how the conversation around a president's religious beliefs has shifted since the heights of President George W. Bush's Evangelical faith in the 2000s, and Joshua's broader work on the presidency of LBJ.

377 | Jonathan D.T. Ward: The 2020s - The Decisive Decade for the U.S. & China Jun 08, 2023

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Jonathan D.T. Ward, author of The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China and China's Vision of Victory, joins The Realignment. Jonathan and Marshall discuss why the 2020s decade is pivotal for the U.S.-China competition for the 21st century, why American strategists were able to ignore questions of economic power during Cold War I, but cannot do so today, and what the economic, military, diplomatic, and intellectual components of a comprehensive American grand strategy look like.

376 | Ben Terris: The Winners and Losers of DC's Big Break After Trump Jun 06, 2023

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Ben Terris, Washington Post writer and author of The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, & True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind, joins The Realignment. Ben and Marshall discuss how much the Trump years did (and didn't change Washington, how the city itself works from the perspectives of pollsters, big donors, lobbyists, kingmakers, and lobbyists, and whose gambles about what the "new normal" looks like paid off.

Teaser | Realignment Supercast AMA - Saagar & Marshall on the Debt Ceiling Debate, Biased Analysis, Good Q&A from Audience, GOP Primary, and Lessons for Ukraine from Afghanistan Jun 02, 2023

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