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A Quick Note for the Season Finale (Back on 8/19) Aug 17, 2021

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As of today, The Realignment’s released more than 150 episodes, so we’re taking a quick break today. If you’re new, go back and check out our previous episodes! If you haven’t given us a five-star review, purchased a book on our Bookshop, checked out our conference, or subscribed to the Substack, please do so below: https://therealignment.substack.com/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop We’ll be back with our regular programming on Thursday, the 19th.

150 | Theodore R. Johnson: How National Solidarity Can Defeat Racial Division Aug 12, 2021

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Theodore R. Johnson, author of When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America and Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, joins The Realignment to discuss race in America through debates over America’s “original sin,” reparations, policing, political preferences, and more...

149 | Spencer Ackerman: How the War on Terror Broke America Aug 10, 2021

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Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars Substack, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and and Produced Trump, and contributing editor at The Daily Beast joins The Realignment to discuss the post-9/11 era, the legacy of the War on Terror, and the Biden administration’s plans to withdraw from Afghanistan in September.

148 | Kinsey Grant and Josh Kaplan: What’s the Future of Media Look Like? Aug 05, 2021

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Kinsey Grant and Josh Kaplan, co-founders of Thinking Is Cool, join The Realignment to discuss the best ways to podcast and build media companies in 2021, debate whether billionaires should exist, whether platforms like Spotify should police their star’s content, and what the successor to cable news could look like.

147 | Vivek Ramaswamy: Does Politics Have a Place in Corporate America? Aug 03, 2021

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Vivek Ramaswamy, Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences and author of Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam, joins The Realignment to debate whether companies should take stands on issues like Black Lives Matter, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other political issues, the social contract between corporations and the public, and the role of identity in a hyper-polarized America.

146 | Amanda Litman and Pete Davis: If All Politics is National, What Happens Back Home? Jul 29, 2021

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Learn more about Statehouse Futures: http://www.StatehouseFutures.org Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, and Pete Davis, co-founder of the Democracy Policy Network, join The Realignment to discuss Statehouse Futures, their progressive policy and strategy, one of the largest convenings of state and local leaders of the year, why progressives and Democrats have struggled locally the last decade, and how down-ballot candidates should approach culture war issues such as the debate over Critical Race Theory and policing.

145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq Jul 27, 2021

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Robert Draper, writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and author of To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, joins The Realignment to discuss the process that led President Bush to make one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.

144 | Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang: The Ugly Truth About Facebook Jul 22, 2021

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Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, technology reporters at The New York Times and authors of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, join The Realignment to discuss Facebook’s fall from grace, whether antitrust action will address complaints about tech companies, and the future of social media platforms after Trump.

143 | Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell: How Wall Street and Venture Capital Fueled the Great Startup Delusion Jul 20, 2021

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Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, authors of The Cult of We: Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion and Wall Street Journal reporters, join The Realignment to discuss what the rise and fall of Adam Neumann’s WeWork says about venture capital, Wall Street, startups, and the future of commercial real estate after COVID-19.

142 | Jeff Shesol: What the Billionaire Space Race Means for Cold War II Jul 15, 2021

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Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Purchase Mercury Rising at The Realignment’s Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/the-realignment-bookshop Jeff Sheshol, author of Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War and founding partner at West Wing Writers, joins The Realignment to discuss Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson’s ambitions, how to balance private and public interests in space, and how the space race between NASA and the Soviet Union can help us understand competition between the U.S. and China in the 2020s.

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