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Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Why Rome Matters, Ben Smith Reaction, What Happened to Andrew Yang?, RFK Jr's Presidential Campaign, Tucker 2024?, and the Threat of Nihilism May 05, 2023

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366 | Ben Smith: Genius, Rivalry, Delusion, and the Collapse of BuzzFeed, HuffPost, Vice, and the Digital Media Era May 04, 2023

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Ben Smith, author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral and Editor in Chief of Semafor, joins The Realignment. Ben, Saagar, and Marshall discuss the end of the social media-fueled digital media, the end of BuzzFeed News and the collapse of Vice, and why the next era of online journalism won't be anything like the 2010s.

365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America May 02, 2023

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Michael Lind, author of Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America and The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, joins The Realignment. Michael and Marshall discuss the systemic myths that keep too many employees underpaid and overworked, how a post-1980s bipartisan consensus crushed worker power, and why the roots of the demographic, social, identity, and political crises facing America lie in wage stagnation.

364 | Rebecca Grant: Why Birth, Motherhood, and Pregnancy Are at the Center of American Politics Apr 27, 2023

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Rebecca Grant, author of Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, joins The Realignment. Rebecca and Marshall discuss her time profiling mothers in Portland, Oregon from pregnancy to birth, America's high maternal mortality rate, why hospital-based births have gotten so expensive compared to other industrialized countries, and alternative approaches to birth and pregnancy outside the hospital system.

363 | Peter Frankopan: How a Transforming Earth & a Rising Asia Will Define the 21st Century Apr 25, 2023

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Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, joins The Realignment. Peter and Marshall discuss how environmental shifts shape the rise and fall of nations, rising tensions between West and East from Ukraine to Taiwan, and the defining geopolitical impact of Asia's.

Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Saagar's Birthday Edition - BuzzFeed News Shutdown, Pessimism About America, Getting Narratives Right, and More... Apr 21, 2023

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#362 | Steven Simon: The Rise and Fall of America's Grand Delusion in the Middle East Apr 20, 2023

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Steven Simon, author of Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, joins The Realignment to discuss America's role in the Middle East after the end of the War on Terror, what went wrong over 40 years of intervention, focusing on pursuing national interests over hubristic ambition, and the lessons for future policymakers from his time on the National Security Council.

#361 | Emmet Penney: Roadblocks to a Nuclear Renaissance, the Broken Energy Grid, and the Decarbonization Challenge Apr 18, 2023

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Emmet Penney, Editor-in-Chief of Grid Brief and host of the Nuclear Barbarians podcast, joins The Realignment to discuss Germany's decision to shut down its remaining nuclear reactors, why the U.S. hasn't vastly expanded its nuclear power capacity over the past year, the 1970s roots of the country's broken energy grid, decarbonization tradeoffs, and the lack of a broad pro-nuclear political coalition.

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Supercast Ask Me Anything Teaser | Anniversary Best of the AMA Edition - Future Plans, DeSantis vs. Trump, Graduate School, Politician Interviews, Realignment Issues, and More... Apr 14, 2023

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In celebration of The Realignment's last year on Supercast, Marshall recorded a bonus Supercast episode featuring his favorite questions of the year.

#360 | Renu Mukherjee: The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of Higher Education Apr 13, 2023

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Renu Mukherjee, a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute, joins The Realignment to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court's likely decision to overturn the use of affirmative action in college admissions. Renu and Marshall cover possible race-neutral alternatives to the status quo, the balance between pure meritocracy and the advantage of a diverse (in all respects) student body, and the legal specifics of the Harvard University case driving the debate. They also explore the issues driving a possible realignment of Asian-American voters, at least at the local and city level.

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